What Does Being an “Adaptable Business” Mean?

Here are seven integrated principles that define adaptable businesses in the new world of work. These are the core elements and aspects that enterprises need to target, sustain, and continuously improve upon to drive success in the short term, and ensure survival in the long run. 1. Conscious Culture Change Adaptable businesses demonstrate what Gartner...

5 Best Practices for Leading Remote Workers

Newly-minted remote workers are not the only ones who need to make a significant adjustment when they trade-in (entirely or partially) a corporate office for a home office. Leaders also need to shift their approaches, actions and attitudes. To achieve cohesion instead of unleash chaos, below we highlight five best practices for managing remote workers:...

5 Tips to Begin Simplifying Traceability in Enterprise Software Delivery

When it comes to traceability in enterprise software delivery, there’s no beating around the bush: It’s always going to be a challenge. It is, after all, a complex adaptive system that comprises a huge evolving web of people, disciplines, teams and processes.  Complicating matters further, traceability also means different things to different people across the...

Single Source of Truth, Make Way for a Single Source of Understanding – Enrich Consulting

Make way for ducklings and for a single source of understanding (apologies to Robert McCloskey) In my last post I covered the essential attributes of an effective single source of truth—a consolidated, reliable source of project information. But simply collecting project details into a centralized vault is not enough for effective R&D decision making. Your single source...

Agile Planning Tool: Four Lean-Agile Use Cases

Agile has officially moved beyond independent application groups to play a critical role in managing work across the broader enterprise. As a result, organizations need Agile planning software that supports a variety of work methodologies and processes, such as Lean, Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban, and even traditional project delivery. Whether your organization is new to...

Planview AdaptiveWork Webinar Replay: Easing the Emotional Toll the Pandemic Continues to Have on Your Employees

Businesses around the world are re-opening their offices and welcoming back employees who have been working from home for nearly three months. However, this doesn’t represent a return to business as usual. There are myriad physical challenges of returning to the office, like maintaining social distancing and accommodating colleagues still working from home. Senior executives...

The Digital Disruption of Digital Transformation

If there are two people who truly understand how Fortune 100 companies can become more adaptive and responsive in the Novel Economy, it’s Brian Solis (Global Innovation Evangelist, Salesforce) and our CEO and founder, Dr. Mik Kersten. In a recent webinar, the bestselling authors discussed what you can do to support the health and happiness...

How to Improve Workflow

We spend a lot of time thinking about work, but many of us don’t spend enough time thinking about how we do that work. We all want to be more productive and efficient–but in order to do that sustainably, we have to examine the processes we use to get work done. In other words, we...

PMO Leadership: How PMOs Can Evolve into Savvy PMOs

PMO leadership today is about more than being a purveyor of governance and delivering projects on time and on budget. The Savvy PMO fosters organizational agility, cultivates efficiencies, and drives growth strategies. They meet executive expectations for informed counsel on vital business decisions such as which projects to prioritize, where to focus spending, how to...

5 Things that COVID-19 has Re-Shaped and Revealed About the New World of Work

It has been said that the only thing worse than being forced to endure a crisis, is wasting one. In light of this wisdom, here are five things that COVID-19 has re-shaped and revealed about the new world of work – and which organizations should embrace to get ahead, or ignore and fall behind:  ...