Strategic Planning

Operationalize strategic plans - from formulation to execution across the organization.

Turn the Tables on Product Development Disruptions

Disruptions to effective product development are constant but don’t need to be detrimental to an organization’s ability to deliver innovation with speed and maintain a healthy ROI. Suppose organizations make adaptability a cornerstone of their product development strategy and overall culture. That shift creates constant momentum, making it easier to adjust perspectives and see with...

PI Planning in Agile: Boosting Efficiency with Flow Metrics

PI Planning in Agile is often held quarterly, bringing together multidisciplinary teams to lay out the product delivery cadence. When scaling agility to your whole organization, it’s important to have an overarching cadence to keep teams in sync. In the Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®), time is divided into Program Increments (PIs) to provide structure while maintaining...

Answering 3 Key Automotive Industry 4.0 Questions

Vehicle factory shutdowns due to a microchip shortage, an automotive CEO losing his job for software concerns, and millions of connected cars on the road. No doubt about it, Automotive Industry 4.0 is here. Technology-related issues that weren’t a concern just five or ten years ago are now top of mind as customer demands and...

3 Things Organizations Can Do to Create an Ethos of Transformation

There’s no question that the last few years have had a tumultuous effect on businesses worldwide. Economic stimulus efforts, a global pandemic, global tensions and geopolitical issues, societal unrest – all of those events have altered how organizations bring their products, goods, and services to market. Many companies have responded to this era of intense...

7 Benefits of Connected Services Organizations

A connected services organization is one in which systems, data, work, people, and customers are integrated and aligned, in order to establish a critical link in the organizational chain that joins customer and solution value. The journey towards becoming a connected services organization is a continuum that captures and tracks progression from traditional, focused on...

Dynamic Planning in the Face of Uncertainty

We thought we knew about uncertainty. Market disruptions by startups; sure. Shifting consumer behaviors? Part of the job. But then the pandemic happened, creating a domino effect of disruptions that we are learning to accept as part of daily life. The only thing certain about our futures, it seems, is that we have an extremely...

What Did the Pandemic Teach Us About New Product Development?

In this post, you will find questions and answers from an incredibly timely and informative webinar that provided crucial new product development best practices based on lessons learned from the pandemic. The information collected in these Q&As will act as valuable assets for anyone wanting to make clear the real need for more adaptive product...

Enrich joins Planview! – Enrich Consulting

When I started Enrich over two decades ago, my dream was to build a company that helped R&D teams manage uncertainty in new product development. Almost 24 years later, dozens of life science and R&D firms worldwide use our SaaS-based strategic portfolio management tools to leverage the collective wisdom of their staff and make confident,...

Leading with Connection: Reflections on Modern Leadership

If there’s anything we have collectively learned in the past two years, it’s that it takes effort to stay connected. Meeting new people, fostering relationships, building trust, collaborating – they’re all certainly possible in a hybrid / remote environment, but they require deliberate, consistent effort. At Planview, we’re very invested in helping businesses stay connected;...