Strategic Planning

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Financial Services Innovation Requires Digital Tech, Matchmaking, and Discipline

Banking is an old business. But in the past year, the rapid adoption of financial services innovation technology has catapulted banking, insurance, and financial leaders into the now. In fact, researchers are saying that 2016 is set to be a year of massive disruption for this sector, as leaders search for new ways to approach...

When Gantt Charts Fail: Use Flag Charts to Show Upcoming Events – Enrich Consulting

You’re probably familiar with Gantt charts, which show project tasks, their duration, and their completion dates. For a specific project, project managers and executives use Gantt charts to quickly review upcoming activities. When reviewing a portfolio of projects, project managers sometimes continue to use Gantt charts, adding upcoming tasks for all projects to a single...

Top 10 Innovation Links for the Week of 1.8.16

Happy New Year, readers! Welcome to the first 2016 weekly roundup of innovation links, where we feature a carefully curated selection of our favorite content on innovation, crowdsourcing, and more from around the web. Here are this week’s top 10 new discoveries. 1. A New Blueprint for Collaborative Innovation Who it’s from: Doug Collins The...

Inspire Innovation with Our Ultimate Holiday Gift Guide

Are you an idea champion, ready to inspire innovation in your company? Are you feeling that holiday spirit? Do you love it when the things you care about (like ideation and presents) come together as one? Then you’re also going to love Planview IdeaPlace’s 2015 Ultimate Holiday Gift Guide, with a handpicked selection of gifts...

READ THIS BOOK: Robert Brands’ 10 Rules of Innovation

You know innovation matters, and you know it should be built into your organization and business strategy at a fundamental level. But wouldn’t it be great if someone who knows what they’re doing would tell you how to make that happen in a clear, direct, and practical way? Thanks to Robert F. Brands, author of Robert’s Rules...

How to Succeed at Crowdsourcing Innovation

Planview IdeaPlace CTO James Gardner, who presented at this year’s Chief Innovation Officer Summit in NYC, knows a thing or two about how to be successful at crowdsourcing innovation. In a recent piece for Techonomy, James outlines the crucial points for enterprise leaders to keep in mind when turning to the crowd for new ideas on...

Nine Tips for Continuous Application Portfolio Management Improvement

Dramatic short-term cost reductions is usually what comes to mind when discussing Application Portfolio Management (APM). Yes, APM is about pinpointing which applications you need, which ones you don’t, and how to safely remove redundant applications. But what if a well-executed APM program could still deliver incremental value while paving the way for longer-term benefits?...

LIVE WEBINAR: 3 Pros Tell You How to Strike Innovation Gold in 2016

If your New Year’s resolutions include having an enterprise-grade innovation program that operates like a well-oiled results machine, then we sure have the webinar for you. Read on to find out exactly why you need to register today for our 12/10 webinar, featuring three of the top innovation thought leaders in consulting, cloud services, and...

Top 10 Innovation Links of the Week: 12.4.15

Welcome to Planview IdeaPlace’s weekly roundup of innovation links, where we feature a carefully curated selection of our favorite content on innovation, crowdsourcing, and more from around the web. Here are 10 new discoveries from this week. 1. Lean Innovation Management – Making Corporate Innovation Work Who it’s from: Steve Blank The skinny: Steve Blank outlines how...

Achieving Best-in-Class Technology Portfolio Management

Invest, divest, and standardize – these are common themes when it comes to Technology Portfolio Management (TPM). While TPM is all about enabling the business to change as fast and often as possible, it can be difficult to measure the ROI of technology standardization and governing projects. In fact, successful technology portfolio programs are moving...