Finding Balance on Unsteady Ground: Insights from Planview’s 2025 State of Strategy Execution Benchmark Report

In 2021, Planview published a benchmark report examining organizations’ strategy execution capabilities during periods of business disruption and uncertainty. The pandemic served as a powerful example of how organizations could move faster than previously imagined under pressure—but it also revealed that approaches designed for crisis management might not sustain long-term competitive advantage. Over the past...

Why Technology Leaders Keep Missing Targets—and How to Stop It

Many technology leaders don’t miss targets because of weak teams—they miss them because of fragmented systems and unclear insights. This blog explores how connecting data, tools, and strategy transforms unpredictability into confident, repeatable delivery.

How Product Leaders Can Stop Firefighting Every Day and Reclaim Time

It’s 8:15am on Monday morning.  Erin, a VP of Product at a fast-growing SaaS company, hasn’t even finished her coffee when the alarms start going off.  Slack pings from engineering. A spreadsheet update is needed from finance. Sales asks a last-minute question about the roadmap. And of course—the CEO forwards a competitor’s new feature announcement with a one-line message: “When can...

From Dough to Delivery: What Baking Cookies Teaches Us About Flow Metrics

If you lead technology or product development, you already know this: competition is relentless, customer expectations are rising, and operational efficiency has never been more vital. Whether you’re delivering digital platforms or producing something as tangible as cookies, success depends on how well your organization can translate demand into value at speed and scale. Yet,...