Strategic Planning

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

Innovating with Purpose

Let’s talk about an oft-maligned buzzword…innovation. By definition, it’s “a new method, idea, product, etc.” Be honest, how difficult do you find it to innovate and truly create something new and impactful in today’s world? If you feel like you’re lagging, you are not alone. The reality is that it takes time and resources to...

“Alright Stop, Collaborate and Listen”

Ahh, the sage words of Vanilla Ice. The man may have known little about 90s hairstyles and fashion, but he (perhaps unknowingly) nailed it when it comes to advice for the new order of IT organizations. However progressive, proactive and well-oiled we think we are, I’m going out on a limb and predicting that a...

The New Planview IdeaPlace Predictions Module: Forecasting the Value of Ideas Using Crowd Input

Crowdsourcing ideas is quickly becoming the standard procedure in enterprise innovation. The diversity of ideas and input that large groups of people can provide makes innovation programs more agile and predictable. This makes gathering and selecting ideas faster and more fruitful, but leaves the financial impacts out of the picture. However, it turns out that...

Planview IdeaPlace Sponsors the Chicago Innovation Summit 2014

This year, Planview IdeaPlace is proud to sponsor the 2014 Open Innovation Summit in Chicago, taking place this week on October 30th and 31st. With an incredible lineup of speakers and attendees, this year’s event promises to showcase how the “accumulation of technological advances and exponentially accelerating innovation can open the door to great opportunity.” What...

Business Capability Planning in the Enterprise Intelligence Age

Troux’s CTO, Bill Cason, hosted a webinar that looked at capability-based investment planning. The 20-minute session reviewed how decision makers use capability modeling to better integrate business and strategic IT planning for improved operations, competitiveness and value. The webinar and its takeaway, 6 Capability Maps Your Business Will Love, garnered a great deal of interest,...

The Persuasive Innovator: Influencing People to Collaborate

When you introduce the practice of collaborative innovation to your organization, you make the case to your colleagues that the approach will benefit them more than the status quo. Why might they agree with you? Have you developed your campaign of persuasion? Innovation architect Doug Collins shares his thinking on how you might influence people...

Forget risk management; long live resilience management – Enrich Consulting

We are surrounded by evidence of resilience: Our immune systems fight off thousands of potential invaders every day and constantly hone their defenses in response to the threats they experience. Ecosystems evolve to use the forces that might otherwise threaten them, such as the sequoia forests of the Sierra Nevada, which don’t just survive forest...

BEWARE: Smart People with Dumb Tools

You have intelligent people in your organization. You hire the best engineers, architects, IT managers and executives. Why insult their intelligence by providing them with tools built for the 90s? There was a time not that long ago when fluency with Excel was a measurement of your business acumen, but today there are spreadsheet alternatives...

Humanizing Big Data: The Everyday Impact of Crowd Science

The emerging field of crowd science is a cross-section of data analytics and human psychology, and a critical component of enterprise innovation. Through powerful algorithms and a growing understanding of individual and group behaviors, this expanding branch of data science is making scalable, repeatable innovation possible. In a recent VentureBeat post, excerpted below, Mindjet Data...

Join Us 8/19 for Our Dallas Innovation Forum with Sprint & Cambia Health

With great innovation there often comes a great deal of collaboration, and that’s why we’re excited to invite you to our next big innovation event, taking place in just one week! Join Mindjet, along with co-hosts Sprint and Cambia Health Solutions, at our next Innovation Forum on Tuesday, August 19th at the Hotel ZaZa in...