Vision and Trends

At Planview, our vision is simple: to help organizations realize their resource potential. This PPM Vision and Trends category is all about thought leadership. Read about what Planview thought leaders are saying about the work and resource management market as it relates to PPM, work collaboration, and enterprise architecture. We’ll also provide information on industry news, trends, and company stewardship. Whether you are seeking a sneak peek at our product lineup or curious about our latest innovation push, Visions and Trends contain a wide range of information. We’ll help you get your arms around the changing landscape and how to better understand the forces at work and the pace of disruption. We can even help you re-assess how to attack your toughest resource challenges and how to stay on top of new certifications.  

Business Optimism in the UK Plummets

The British government’s extension of their Brexit deadline (from March 29 to October 31) appears to only be prolonging the pain of insecurity being felt by business in the UK. While in 2018, the UK economy had been bucking all trends and disproving those who had suggested that Brexit would be an unmitigated disaster, 2019...

A New Chapter for Planview

I am so excited to share with you today the new visual identity for Planview! Since 1989, Planview has been on the forefront of providing award-winning enterprise solutions for managing work and resources. Now, we are entering our next chapter as the premier platform for enabling every organization to seamlessly transform strategy to delivery in...

How the UK Views the Legal Status of Cryptocurrency

As cryptocurrency has taken the world by storm and launched a major debate about whether it could actually shake up how finance and currency work, one field which has lagged sorely behind its pace of change is cryptocurrency law. In many fields of innovation, tight regulation early on might be seen as constricting and having...

Real-Time Collaborative Project Navigation

When Waze, the traffic and navigation app, came out in 2009 I did not understand why it was needed.  At the time, there was an abundance of personal navigation devices (PND) that were by far more efficient than traditional paper maps. I could not understand why another such device was needed, let alone one that...

UK Trends in Employee Engagement

Modern employees in many countries, particularly in the UK and other developed nations, are understandably concerned about the stability of their employment. This is related to a number of factors, including the growing global economy and associated outsourcing of jobs, as well as advances in technology that stand to make certain jobs obsolete. As a...

The UK Employment Situation: Now and In the Future

Almost a Third of UK Employees Have Had Their Pay Cut in the Last Five Years Like most of the world, the UK suffered a big downturn during the Great Recession. Economies across the globe tanked and a rising tide of unemployment followed. The UK did, however, manage to fare better than most, with UK...

What Project Managers Can Learn from Brexit

Last June, citizens of the UK voted to leave the European Union by a slim 51.9 percent. The decision immediately affected the UK’s economy and created an overall sense of fear and uncertainty about the future. While the Brexit vote might not seem like something we can learn a lot from in business, there are...

Cultural breakthrough: 5 change management tips to support your digital transformation

Digital transformations typically demand major shifts in thinking, processes and behavior across the organization. It’s rarely, if ever, easy – especially when it comes to scaling and sustaining the transformation. Inevitably there will be a cultural shift, especially when you consider all the moving parts: the software delivery teams, the product owners, the multiple business...

Two Possible Solutions for UK’s Low Productivity

Britain has been confounding many experts recently as its economy continues to surge, despite the political and economic uncertainty caused by its decision to leave the European Union (i.e. Brexit), the world’s largest trading bloc. While its financial good health can be explained by increased exports due to a weaker pound sterling and firms stockpiling...

Agile Transformation: 10 Lessons Learned (so far) on our Agile Journey

As a product leader, I get the question all the time: “Do you use your own products?” The answer is, “Of course we do.” It’s certainly true, but up until this point, usage was mainly in a department by department basis, with each department using the product slightly different and not necessarily connected. To provide...