Automate Planview AgilePlace with Node.js

To help customers get the most out of Planview AgilePlace, we provide Web Services for automating common tasks, such as creating, updating, and moving cards on a board. In addition, there are software clients available for common programming languages and platforms, making it easier to take advantage of Planview AgilePlace’s Web Services. In this article, I want...

The Innovation Teacher, PART I: Educating Students on Failure, Change, and Discovery

Editor’s Note: Don Wettrick is an educational speaker, professional, and innovation evangelist. A two-time Microsoft® Innovative Educator award winner, he believes that bringing innovation into the classroom can serve as a community hub of progress and change, and advocates that when you give students a class based on freedom and autonomy, they can accomplish incredible things....

Reflections on Gartner’s Symposium/ITxpo 2015 Dubai, UAE

Digital Transformation and the Need for Bimodal IT I recently attended the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Dubai; it is good to reflect on the powerful messages that were delivered, focusing on how to realize, build and optimize digital opportunities, and moving digital business from theory to practice. CIOs were encouraged to evolve their own IT leadership...

Recharting Course: Enterprise Intelligence Can Be Your Business Compass

Recently, we’ve been frequently talking about enterprise trends under the lens of “today’s day and age” or “today’s business environment.” It’s as competitive a landscape as we’ve ever seen out there, and more and more companies are having to get innovative about how they diversify, extend and grow their businesses. This has led to companies...

Step Up Your Service Desk Game

Do you think your service desk could use a boost? Are you realizing that while a service desk is essential in your organization, it is just a piece of a much larger puzzle? It is impossible to deny the importance of a service desk system in your organization, but it begs the question, how can...

Architects, It’s Your Time

For decades, CIOs have been fighting for a seat at the executive table. Fighting to be heard, fighting to be a trusted advisor to the CEO, fighting to be regarded as a true C-level participant. It hasn’t been until the last few years that cybersecurity breaches , the sprint toward business digitization, the emphasis on...

Using technology to engage your workforce and improve your bottom line

A recent study from the University of Michigan shows that a happier workforce is more productive, therefore improving a company’s bottom line. The workplace experience largely determines how enthusiastic and invested we feel in what we do. But some companies underestimate the power of a happy workforce and of the factors that can help make it more...

How Outdated Ways of Working are Costing Your Business Money

In today’s digital economy, businesses are under more pressure than ever to do more with less. They are expected to increase productivity without compromising quality while keeping employees and customers happy. However, our Chaos Theory research shows that managers are struggling to work smarter – and businesses are paying a high price for it. Although...