Din väg till smidighet i affärsverksamheten
With cloud-based project portfolio management software, project management offices can gain visibility into both strategic initiatives and sustaining operations, resulting in clear visibility into operations, effective prioritization, and better decision-making across the entire portfolio. A Project Management Office (PMO) doesn’t always achieve its full potential. Project managers often find themselves short on resources, time and...
What is an R&D-driven company with $10-50 billion of cash in the bank to do? In the last twelve months, Merck, Pfizer, HP, AstraZeneca, and Bristol-Myers Squibb have announced stock buybacks totaling over $25 billion, and layoffs of over 30,000 employees. So apparently, for many firms, the best use of their cash hoard is a...
Spelförändrande tjänsteplanering I min tidigare blogg, Blindsided: Why Service-Driven Organizations are Unprepared for Swings in Demand, diskuterade jag några av de problem som projektbaserade serviceorganisationer för närvarande står inför. Sammanfattningsvis kan man säga att praktiskt taget alla organisationer har följande utmaningar: Otillförlitliga prognoser innebär att den inkommande efterfrågan alltid är en överraskning Dålig insyn i resursutnyttjandet.
Finance and R&D can get along You’ve just finished briefing the executive committee on the methods for project valuation that you have worked so hard to establish in your R&D group. The team has finally acknowledged that risk needs to be managed in all its potential forms. You’ve reached consensus on the following set of...
Innovation is inherently risky. By definition, you’re doing something that you haven’t done before so there are no guarantees it will work. The mindset in many organizations is to “minimize” risk as if it were a disease, but it isn’t that simple. The best companies face risk head-on and manage it both systematically and transparently....
Part one of this series notes that 1) there are appropriate uses for spreadsheets in the planning process, 2) there is a key point at which spreadsheets fall short (alignment), and 3) an appropriate planning tool is one that makes the most of the strengths of spreadsheets in the data gathering process. In this blog,...
Ingen kommer att hävda att ekonomin skapar många affärsmässiga utmaningar för projektbaserade företag. Smalare marginaler, minskad intäktstillväxt, färre projekt, lägre faktureringsnivåer, förändrade förväntningar från kunder och anställda och nya tekniktrender, inklusive konsumentanpassning av IT, är vardagliga ämnen för många chefer. Hur kan den framgångsrika ledningen i dessa svåra förhållanden...
A Look at the Findings from the 3rd Product Portfolio Management Benchmark Study: Companies are Waking Up to Ways to Streamline Product Development This year, 320 product development executives and managers across the globe shared their priorities, risks, and pain points around product portfolio management (PPM). Because this is the third study on PPM, we were...
iPad har varit en revolutionerande enhet som har fört surfplattor från en relativt okänd plats till den vanliga marknaden. Det som gör iPad så övertygande - dess lätt bärbara storlek och vikt, snabba uppstart och varierande programutbud - gör den också till ett utmärkt verktyg för projektledare. De flesta av oss är sällan fastkedjade vid ett skrivbord, och snabbt,...
Detailed project valuations are often requested by executives, the basis being they will feel more confident in their decision making process if the accuracy of the forecasts is increased They might believe that adding detail to their valuations can accomplish this; however, this is inevitably not the case (All the NPVs are wrong, can we...
