Strategic Planning

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Recharting Course: Enterprise Intelligence Can Be Your Business Compass

Recently, we’ve been frequently talking about enterprise trends under the lens of “today’s day and age” or “today’s business environment.” It’s as competitive a landscape as we’ve ever seen out there, and more and more companies are having to get innovative about how they diversify, extend and grow their businesses. This has led to companies...

Architects, It’s Your Time

For decades, CIOs have been fighting for a seat at the executive table. Fighting to be heard, fighting to be a trusted advisor to the CEO, fighting to be regarded as a true C-level participant. It hasn’t been until the last few years that cybersecurity breaches , the sprint toward business digitization, the emphasis on...

A Revolution in R&D Innovation Tools Is Underway – Enrich Consulting

While I spoke at the EBCG Portfolio Management in Life Sciences Conference, people started talking. I don’t mean in whispers, or on their mobiles behind their hands. It started a quietly, as a susurration, and became louder, until I momentarily stopped speaking to ask myself “is anyone paying attention?” The thing is, they were paying...

Thursday Thought Leadership Roundup: Innovation Capacity, Digital Victory, and How to Measure TL

In this week’s thought leadership roundup, we take a look at what gives companies the capacity to innovate, what it means to claim digital victory, and the best way to measure your TL efforts. Essential Components of Innovation Capacity From Innovation Excellence: “‘There are no low technology industries, there are only low technology companies: companies that...

3 Business Innovation Reports You Need to Read Right Now

Business innovation: no matter what industry you’re in, it’s a priority, a strategy, a goal, a primary objective — or at minimum, a phrase you can’t seem to get away from. There’s good reason for the focus: studies show that innovation leaders outperform competitors 39% of the time, and that their average revenue increases by 23% year over...

Putting Your Best Foot Forward

Every year, right around this time, a buzz zips through the enterprise architecture community when InfoWorld, Forrester Research and the Penn State University Center for Enterprise Architecture open their collective call for entries for the Enterprise Architecture Awards (a program now in its sixth year). Enterprise architects and business leaders alike snap to attention and...

What’s Your EA End Game? Tales From TWC 2015

A couple weeks ago we held our annual Troux Worldwide Conference, inviting customers and partners from across the country and even the world to meet us in our hometown of Austin, TX. We hosted customers from healthcare to banking, from public sector to consumer packaged goods. Aside from the compelling conversation, fantastic food and inspiring...

Planview IdeaPlace Ignite Innovation Summit: Top 10 Takeaways

This year, Planview IdeaPlace hosted our first ever Ignite Innovation Summit in Boston, Massachusetts. Packed with opportunities, success stories, and inspirational talks from some of today’s most noteworthy enterprise innovation leaders, the outcome was truly remarkable. Over 140 attendees from globally recognized companies like IBM, AT&T, MetLife, Cigna, PwC, Pfizer, Unitedhealth Group, Siemens, Estee Lauder and more came...

Planview IdeaPlace Ignite Summit 2015: Ideas. Influencers. Impact.

Innovation has long been central to the strategy of successful companies. But innovation is more than just ramping up R&D. 2015 marks the shift from the information economy to the innovation economy — one that’s focus is a future of impact and influence, filled with endless new ways to deal with global business challenges and...