Why Resources Are The Lifeline To A PMO’s Success

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...

Capgemini’s Top 3 Takeaways for Crowdsourcing Innovation

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...

Is Your Company Cut Out for Crowdsourcing? Take This Quiz

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,...

Project Collaboration Hurdles Revealed in Recent Survey of 200 Business Professionals

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...

Reinventing the Strategy and Business of IT

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...

Digital Business Transformation and the Importance of Portfolio Management

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...

Collaborative Innovation and the Digital Vortex

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.”...

Crowdsourcing 2015: Consumer Creativity and Open Innovation

Crowdsourcing, like innovation, is a term both heavy with meaning and shrouded in ambiguity. Knowing the general stuff — like that it’s somehow connected to business or that it has something to do with ideas — isn’t enough to use crowdsourcing as a strategy. But that’s what’s necessary in current markets, where competitive companies need to...

Is the Internet of Things Impacting Your Product Strategy? If It Isn’t Yet, It Will!

Wikipedia defines The Internet of Things (IoT) as the network of physical objects or “things” with embedded electronics, software, sensors, and connectivity to enable it to achieve greater value and service by exchanging data with the manufacturer, operator and/or other connected devices. Here’s more about the Internet of Things and product strategy. When I think...

Waterfall or Agile?

Agile project management is a hotly debated topic and has left some of us wondering “what’s so great about Agile?” and “what can it do for me?” Agile portfolios are trending right now, and it’s not a one-size-fits-all approach. As Agile popularity grows and demand for Agile teams increases, it is important to understand the...