Your path to business agility
Have you ever looked at a body of work and wondered how you would get it all done? They say the best way to eat an elephant is to take one bite at a time.* This analogy does a great job of explaining why it is a good idea to break down your work into...
Open source projects have it good. Their issue tracker serves as the single system of record for all development, support, quality management and planning activity. The result is a theoretical ideal in terms of a connected software lifecycle. For example, every vote that a user makes for a particular bug is immediately visible to developers....
Open source projects have it good. Their issue tracker serves as the single system of record for all development, support, quality management and planning activity. The result is a theoretical ideal in terms of a connected software lifecycle. For example, every vote that a user makes for a particular bug is immediately visible to developers....
Open source projects have it good. Their issue tracker serves as the single system of record for all development, support, quality management and planning activity. The result is a theoretical ideal in terms of a connected software lifecycle. For example, every vote that a user makes for a particular bug is immediately visible to developers....
The Economist recently published an interesting article, Strategic moves: Big consulting and accounting firms are making a risky move into strategy work, about what seems to be a new consolidation movement amongst the major strategy consulting firms and operations specialists in a effort to offer both strategy and execution services. Traditionally, within enterprises and throughout...
A Special Sneak Peak of SPI Research’s 2014 Professional Services Maturity Benchmark™ Reveals Looming Resource Issues Get ready for 2014. SPI Research is nearing completion of surveying for the 2014 Professional Services Maturity™ Benchmark, and the results thus far are impressive! With more than 100 professional services firms participating so far, organizational performance seems to...
Findings from the Fourth Product Portfolio Management Benchmark Survey and a Roadmap to Sustainable Innovation Imagine sailing in the World Cup race without a strategic plan or a map. It is a sport where speed is of the essence, decisions (and perhaps more importantly the timing of those decisions) are paramount, and team talents must be...
Comparing Industry Frameworks for Maturing Innovation Management The fall conference season is winding down and this year I’ve had the privilege of attending and speaking at some great innovation events, sharing the newly launched Innovation Management Maturity Model™. From regional PDMA meetings in Dallas and Atlanta, to the national PDMA PIM conference, the Optimizing Innovation conference...
During a webcast with SPI Research called, Leadership in Large Professional Services Organizations: Dwell or Excel, we discussed the latest research on the topic of trends in project-based businesses and how executive leadership is influencing the priorities of delivery excellence and project automation. Something interesting happened when we polled the audience of more than 150...
Dr. Phil has the most awesome one-liners. “No matter how flat you make a pancake, it’s always got two sides.” This is so true. “If you’re gonna debate me, you better not let your alligator mouth overload your hummingbird ass.” I can’t interpret this one, but I’m sure it was spot on at the time....
