Your path to business agility
Innovation has always been a driver of advancement, competitive edge and ultimately global change. No matter the industry, a company that consistently innovates defines the bar by which success is measured. This February, Mindjet hosted an exclusive Innovation Forum in Sydney, Australia, featuring a presentation from AMP’s Director of Design and Innovation,Munib Karavdic. Karavdic leads...
Last week I introduced a 4-part blog series for IT and EMPO professionals that features our most popular resources of 2014. We started by looking at The 2014 State of Resource Management and Capacity Planning Report and interactive website which provides insight into how you can work towards maturing your organization’s resource and capacity management...
For some, networking is a dirty word that conjures up images of awkward conversations and handshakes that last too long. But happily, the meaning of the word is evolving. Business leaders continue to see increasing value in collaborative ideation, and are reaping the many benefits that result from cultivating both internal and external innovation networks....
Jeff Anderson, Lean-Agile Advisory Practice Lead at Deloitte Canada, explains how the Lean Change method helps organizations manage agile transformations at scale through co-creation and validated learning. About This Webinar Watch this webinar recording to learn how to: – Collaboratively design a potential Agile change using a Change Canvas – Build a feedback-rich change plan...
Implementing an effective enterprise architecture program is about more than just selecting a tool to aggregate and visualize data. As an EA solutions provider, we talk to a lot of organizations in the early stages of implementation, which gives us a unique, clean-slate perspective on the selection process. Frankly, the most obvious misstep that we...
Despite its recent elevation to popular-business-initiative-meets-buzzword, innovation isn’t just about companies staying competitive and boosting returns. At its heart, innovation is a global altruistic initiative to drive technological breakthroughs, revamp inefficiencies, and overall, improve the lives of people throughout the world. Siemens Mobility, an internationally-known enterprise company dedicated to advancing transportation services and technology, will join us...
The growing role of technology in organizations is changing how people collaborate, and how projects are managed. Mobile and wearable technologies are paving the way for true mobility, and – together with cloud and collaboration technologies – enabling leaner, more productive workspaces. Yet, our research project, the Chaos Theory, revealed that despite many technologies that...
Capturing insights and performing sophisticated analytics in real-time for your innovation programs is critical to your success. That’s why we’re so excited to announce the addition of Insights visual reporting and analytics to our Planview IdeaPlace innovation management software. Our new Insights capability provides deep business intelligence and visual analytics that will prove highly valuable...
For those of you in IT or part of an enterprise project management organization (EPMO), we want to share a few of the most popular resources of 2014. In case you didn’t have the chance to read them, they should give you insights into best practices and methods leading organizations are implementing to improve processes...
In this three-part series on Kanban for DevOps, Dominica DeGrandis, Director of Training and Coaching at Planview AgilePlace, explains three key reasons why IT Ops teams and those implementing a DevOps value chain use a lean flow approach to product development. Here’s part one. Reason #1: The work isn’t done until it’s working right in Production. There’s a joke...
