Your path to business agility
In enterprises today, it is all too common for departments outside the IT organization to implement new systems, which we all have been convinced are amazing because of x, y, and z and absolutely critical for them to get their job done. Okay great. Well what happens when that system that IT didn’t even know...
Watch this webinar to find out how asking a simple question can improve your delivery speed. About This Webinar To help teams make effective day-to-day decisions that support Lean-Agile principles, we’ve created a simple yardstick at Planview AgilePlace called FSGD — Frequent, Small, Good, Decoupled. Easy to remember and apply, “Fizz Good” is a way of breaking down...
There is a saying that the only things you can be certain of in life are death and taxes. At Tasktop there is another certainty, every three months we release software. Our regular delivery cadence has become a heartbeat for Tasktop, delivering innovation in regular, consumable chunks. And today, July 28th 2015 we announced the next release of...
Resources are an IT leaders’ biggest asset and it is undeniably the most challenging part of management. With such a large investment in people – training, evaluating, motivating, and managing – it is in every organization’s best interest to have a resource management plan that keeps resources working on the right projects at the right...
This week, Corey Glickman, the Global Lead of Rapid Design & Visualization at Capgemini, joined the Spigit team to discuss how and why Capgemini is crowdsourcing innovation to power their $14B business. If you think that it’s challenging to create business impact from crowdsourcing, or are just too wary to give it a try, you’ll...
When it comes to gathering innovative ideas, one of the biggest mistakes companies make is to confuse strategic crowdsourcing with something like a virtual suggestion box. But without structure or process, game-changing ideas can go unheard — and you’re missing out on great opportunities to drive growth, profits, customer loyalty, brand awareness, new product development,...
Are your project-collaboration efforts unraveling into an unorganized nightmare of missed deadlines, email overload, and cumbersome spreadsheets? If you’re dealing with project collaboration hurdles, you’re not alone. I recommend reading the interview with chief researcher, Maureen Carlson from Appleseed Partners where she highlights challenges and solutions you need to consider if you manage any type...
Today’s IT organizations encompass a wide range of functions spanning traditional IT operations, infrastructure, application development, security – the classic IT functions that we all know. These functions are almost always complemented by several important organizations that are chartered with strategic and business management – the PMO, a technology team, often enterprise architects, and even...
For many years technology has played a critical role in improving both the efficiency and accuracy of processes through automation. Now, as technological capabilities continue to evolve, it is becoming more pervasive in all industries. The result is “Digital Business” and its exponential increase in the pace of technology-enabled products and services that impact us...
This June, the Global Center for Digital Business Transformation published a report, Digital Vortex: How Digital Disruption Is Redefining Industries. The report notes that, from a survey of 1,000 business leaders, “four of today’s top 10 incumbents (in terms of market share) in each industry will be displaced by digital disruption in the next five years.”...
