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Mature Organizations Continuously Plan Throughout the Year, Not Just Annually In this four-part series, I’m discussing planning challenges and offering best practices that can help companies improve efficiencies and gain strategic advantage. Is the Annual Process Disconnected from the Realities of Your Business? Don’t Miss the Mark! What Executives Need to Consider When It Comes...
Resources are an organization’s most valuable asset, but I would bet that your approach to resource management is broken. When thinking about your resources or people, can you confidently and accurately answer these questions?: I know what they are working on They are working on the right things, at the right time Their utilization is...
Every company wants to be a leader in innovation: the brand that brings the best, most innovative products to market. Unfortunately, what we often find is that these same organizations fundamentally fail in creating capacity for innovation. Check out the infographic to find out more about creating capacity for innovation and begin shifting your organization’s product...
Delivering high-quality software stresses most IT organizations. Software operates in complex technical environments, complicating analysis and design. Teams are diverse and distributed, challenging collaboration and development of shared understanding. And outdated processes and independent development tools tend to silo business analysts, designers, developers, and testers, adding overhead to what CIOs wish could be an efficient...
In my last post I discussed how product organizations are using ineffective tools to manage their product portfolio and that it’s likely cutting into their bottom line due to inefficient resource utilization and missed deadlines when bringing products to market. Still, how do you know when you’ve reached the tipping point, and when it’s really time...
Company leaders do a lot of different things to operate lean; it’s the one business goal that never disappears from the agenda. And for the past few decades, outsourcing has been the method of choice for getting things done without blowing the annual budget on a single project. As of 2014, the global outsourcing market...
Watching Back To The Future again recently, I was horrified to realize that, at the end of the movie, the professor and Marty use their time machine to travel from 1985 to…wait for it…2015. They traveled 30 years into the future, and I’ve aged 30 years since last seeing the movie. Robert Zemeckis’s vision for The Future doesn’t...
Digital business is changing the rules. It is causing disruption in all industries, and forcing businesses to transform to survive. Many industries are having to shift from selling products to being focused on enhancing the customer experience with a combination of products and services. These digital-led services will become the driver for revenue growth in...
Portfolio management is different from project management in that it encompasses the entire lifecycle – from ideation through the realization of the benefits it set out to provide. Portfolio management includes project management as a phase of the project lifecycle which focuses on, and is best at, the execution phase of a project. But as...
Efficiency gains that come with smart use of technology is certainly recognized by business leaders across the globe. It unlocks valuable time, streamlines business operations and frees companies to grow and succeed. New, independent research by Loudhouse and commissioned by Planview shows that companies without tech-driven productivity strategies are suffering. They are more likely to...
