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.  

The Number of Low Paid Employees in the UK Keeps Falling

The situation with employment in the UK is continuing to go from strength-to-strength for employees, despite the considerable insecurity brought about by governmental Brexit divides and the future of British trade with Europe and the rest of the world. There had been many predictions that UK employees would suffer greatly following the decision to exit...

An Executive’s Guide to Delivering on Strategy in a Digitally Connected World

In part 1 of this series, “An Executive’s Guide to Measuring Digital Transformation,” I presented a broad overview of some of the challenges faced by organizations in today’s digitally connected world and illustrated the importance of being able to measure digital transformation. Now, let’s break down that transformation into specifics, looking at how to improve...

UK Businesses Facing Major Worker Shortages

On top of the wide variety of political, social and economic issues which are now facing the UK due to the 2016 decision to leave the European Union, businesses in the UK now have population problems to worry about too. Employment consultant, Mercer, has estimated that by 2025, the pool of workers available for UK...

Beat the Heat: The Enterprise Software Category that is Changing the Industry

We’ve talked a lot about work and resource management (WRM) as significant category of enterprise software. WRM solutions uniquely combine strategic planning and delivery to give you visibility into performance that spans strategy, projects, teams, products, financials, and resources. With WRM, your organization can better analyze emerging technologies, break down silos, adapt to change, and...

An Executive Perspective on the Role of Work and Resource Management Technology

In part one of this series, “An Executive Perspective on Changing Work and Resource Dynamics,” I discussed the challenges and obstacles executives and senior leaders face in this geographically dispersed world of diverse ways teams work. Now, let’s analyze the key to maintaining a flexible approach while connecting all the parts of your organization—work and...

Artificial Intelligence: What Does it Mean for Businesses?

Work as we know it has transformed radically over the past few decades and so have the tools that we used to get work done. The focus for this evolution was how to get work done faster and in a more efficient way leading to the development of complex tools. But it required time to...

Over 1,500 UK Companies Missed the Gender Pay Gap Deadline

Workplace equality and fixing the gender pay gap has been a high priority for the current government and broader society itself in recent years. As a part of the drive for more equal workplaces, UK employers with more than 250 employees are now obligated to submit their gender pay figures so as to both publicize...

An Executive’s Guide to Measuring Digital Transformation

In this digital era, there exists the new challenge of keeping your organization up to speed. Customer expectations are higher, the speed at which you must deliver products to market is faster, and the competition is more aggressive. Organizations today are expected to transition from being product- and project-centric to customer-centric, which can require a...

Announcing ‘Project to Product’ book and the Flow Framework™

I’m delighted to announce that my book Project to Product will be released at the DevOps Enterprise Summit 2018 (Las Vegas), on Oct 22, 2018. As startups disrupt every market and tech giants pull further ahead of entrenched businesses, the majority of enterprise IT organizations are facing an existential crisis. Either they quickly become much...

2018 Survey Results Show Businesses Have Yet to Conquer Project Collaboration [Infographic]

Team work makes the dream work, or so it should. Many organizations continue to struggle with proper project collaboration, causing team work to become a source of frustration and stress rather than an asset. Yet, these same organizations understand that team work is essential to achieving strategic goals in today’s world of work—they simply haven’t...