Your path to business agility
Carrie Nauyalis New product development (NPD) solution evangelist Carrie Nauyalis is extremely passionate about the ROI of product portfolio management. She likes to walk the walk and talk the talk when it comes to championing a single source of the truth for greater efficiency in bringing products to market. In fact, she is such an advocate...
Whether you are managing day-to-day projects in a 20-person company or managing 20+ projects per year in a highly evolved enterprise, you know it’s essential to understand resource commitments and work across projects. But do you need resource management or workload management Depending on your organization’s size, project portfolio complexity, number of projects, and needs, there...
For a specialized international consultancy business, productivity and efficient teamwork is critical. TB Spirits Group, a boutique spirits consultancy, was looking to grow its geographically spread client base and launch projects faster. By adopting a cloud-based project collaboration tool, the firm managed to improve collaboration and productivity. The result has been a saving of over 1 000 man-hours...
Social issues resulting from limited employment opportunities, high crime rates, and poverty affect us all. These circumstances are especially devastating to high-risk urban areas like the Frazier community in Dallas, Texas, where unemployment rates are tremendous, and a chance for economic recovery becomes less likely each day. In an effort to bring lasting solutions to...
Under pressure to reduce costs, justify headcount, and deliver more while providing business sponsors with the status of projects? Do you feel like annual planning is a one-time exercise and not a true reflection of strategic objectives? You’re not alone. Many organizations find that the annual process is disconnected from the realities of the business....
It’s every portfolio manager’s nightmare. The annual portfolio review is about to kick off. Hundreds of hours of preparation have gone into the main presentation’s PowerPoint deck, and hundreds more into each of the backup decks, readied in case management asks about the details of any of the projects under discussion. Information encompassing over a...
Check lists and memory joggers can be helpful. Recently, I decided to fly as comfortably as possible on a long trip to San Francisco: jeans, sneakers, etc. I packed my “work” clothes in my bag. Upon landing, I realized—too late—that I had forgotten my dress shoes and belt. I now own a new pair of...
As the working environment becomes more and more complex, teams are pressured to be increasingly accountable, productive and collaborative. However this doesn’t mean that they’re willing to give up all of their time for the company. Instead, people are demanding flexible working hours which will allow them to continue living their life without the constraints...
Recently, Planview IdeaPlace CTO James Gardner shared some of his expert tips on using crowdsourcing software to build your innovation pipeline. Here’s what we learned. 1. Quality Matters, But So Does Quantity For organizations that are already getting tons of ideas from the people in their extended networks, continuing to push for suggestions might start to...
Innovation has never been as misunderstood, challenging, expensive, or transformative as it is today. With $1.6 trillion spent globally on R&D in 2014 alone, it’s perhaps the most crucial initiative people can invest in. Many companies are turning to innovation centers — physical hubs where people can gather to design, build, and test products —...
