IT Budget Constraints and Strategic Shift

Technology and business priorities shift as CIOs focus on IT transformation to strategic business partner. ...

... "CIOs see 2010 as an opportunity to accelerate IT’s transition from a support function to strategic contributor focused on innovation and competitive advantage ... " ...

Via Info Management: IT Strategic Role

The Friction Factor

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... "Make a project smaller. Reduce the scope. Have it doable in a few days or a week. Work on the other parts when the first part is done. " ...

Via Zen Habits: Get to Task Completion

Project Delivery Speed

Getting good at delivering project on-time? Try speeding them up and accelerating the time to value ... for a potential competitive differentiator. ...

... "It is cause for alarm then that so many of those surveyed deliver IT projects late. Companies who succeed in accelerating IT project and service delivery have an advantage, while those who do not suffer at the hand of the competition. " ...

Via SAP INFO: Project Speed

Financial Services IT Software Projects: Seeking an Edge

Financial firms are looking for methods to accelerate the delivery of their software projects. ...

... "Why so much interest? IT project management is an area many companies are weak in, says Forrester's Cullen. It's the No. 1 gap for all firms. " ...

Via Wall Street & Technology: Accelerate Software Delivery

Strategic Value: Measuring the Human Resource Function ...

Craig Schneider, CFO Mag, explores the tactics needed to create differentiation in the human resource function. Metrics are needed to establish a foundation of value. Partnering with the finance function is seen as a way to accelerate the measurement initiative. A quantitative approach should be balanced with the art of "resources human", since people and talent should not always be boiled down to a number. ...

... "The human-resources department is in survival mode. As outsourcing the function becomes a more-prevalent option for companies, HR managers know that if they are going to endure, they have to deliver strategic value, and that value has to be measurable. " ...

Strategic Value: Measuring the Human Resource Function: The New Human-Capital Metrics: Via CFO

ITIL Service Desk Software: Market Consolidation ...

Mercury acquires ITIL service desk software vendor to improve the depth of its offering. Rapid integration of this acquisition should position Mercury as a viable competitor in the service desk space with its suite approach to IT service and portfolio management. ...

... "The acquired offering is an advanced set of ITIL-based technologies that help enable companies to take a business-centric approach to managing an enterprise service desk with low total cost of ownership. This technology provides advanced out-of-the-box ITIL-based capabilities in incident management, problem resolution, configuration management, change management and release management, along with robust functionality in asset and inventory management. Mercury provides this technology as part of its Mercury Service Desk product, which is available as a strategic part of the Mercury BTO Enterprise and part of the Mercury Application Change Lifecycle solution. Mercury plans to further incorporate this technology to expand its set of ITSM offerings within the Mercury BTO Enterprise. " ...

ITIL Service Desk Software: Market Consolidation: Via Mercury Interactive: Mercury Accelerates BTO Strategy For IT Service Management With Strategic Acquisitions ...

ITIL Best Practice Projects Accelerating ...

Voyence's survey results on ITIL adoption shows that approximately half of those surveyed expect to accelerate ITIL best practice projects over the next 18 months. Change and configuration management were selected as the most important ITIL implementation. The next most important ITIL-candidate processes were incident and problem management. ...

... "Voyence, a pioneer in automated change and configuration management solutions, announced the results of a survey taken at Pink Elephant's 10th Annual International IT Service Management Conference from Feb. 12-14, 2006. Voyence sampled 83 random IT administrators at the show to determine the industry's readiness for regulatory compliance demands and how quickly the industry is adopting IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) best practices. " ...

ITIL Best Practice Projects Accelerating: Via Voyence: Survey Reveals More Than 90 Percent of IT Managers Cannot Prove Network Compliance With Government Regulations: Survey Indicates ITIL Best Practice Projects Accelerating Due To Compliance Requirements ...

Scrum: Microsoft Adopts For Project Speed ...

In keeping with our scrum theme, this method focuses on delivering value early in the product lifecycle. Simon Avery reports on Scrum software development method employed by Microsoft to accelerate new product cycle time to market. ...

... "To get its classified system to market as fast as possible, Microsoft is relying on what it calls the scrum method of software development, which involves a very small team of engineers. For the on-line classified product, code named Fremont, there are just six developers. " ...

Via The Globe and Mail: Executive Decision: Classifieds force sluggish Microsoft to scrum

Additional resources on Microsoft and scrum ...

Via Microsoft: Download details: Project 2003 Tool: Scrum Solution Starter: "Scrum is an Agile project management practice that employs short iterations and continuous improvement. The Scrum solution starter extends Microsoft Office Project Professional 2003 or Project Standard 2003 and enables project managers to perform basic Scrum work. "

Via Chris Flaat's WebLog : People are not fungible resources: "We are currently using both Scrum and more traditional project management on several efforts going on within our product unit, and I thought I'd share some learnings. Something we're running into is that getting people dedicated to one effort can be hard, depending on the management style of the relevant managers. "

Software Tools and Methods: "This presentation started with a brief context-setting look at why Agile approaches are gaining in popularity. It then discussed the fundamental principles that are common to most Agile methods, and used the Scrum approach to give a more detailed view by example on how Agile projects work. "

PMO Project Office: Whirlpool Maytag Integration ...

Whirlpool makes leadership moves to support the integration of the planned Maytag acquisition in a controlled and disciplined manner through a project management office, or PMO. Appointed execs bring strong credentials to their new leadership roles. ...

... "Whirlpool Corporation announced the appointment of Ted Dosch, currently corporate vice president and controller, to corporate vice president, finance, Project Management Office, which manages the planning and integration of the anticipated Maytag acquisition. Larry Venturelli, currently vice president, Investor Relations, will succeed Dosch as vice president and controller. These moves are effective immediately. ... In his new role, Dosch will lead the planning and integration of all financial processes and internal controls associated with the anticipated Maytag acquisition. Venturelli will assume the controller responsibilities and continue to provide leadership to the Investor Relations activities on an interim basis. A successor to Venturelli will be named at a later date. Both Dosch and Venturelli will continue reporting to Templin. " ...

PMO Project Office: Whirlpool Maytag Integration: Via Whirlpool: Whirlpool Names Dosch and Venturelli to New Leadership Roles ...



Whirlpool Corporation is a global manufacturer and marketer of major home appliances, with annual sales of more than $13 billion, 68,000 employees, and nearly 50 manufacturing and technology research centers around the globe. The company markets Whirlpool, KitchenAid, Brastemp, Bauknecht, Consul and other major brand names to consumers in more than 170 countries.

Sustaining Innovation: Growth Through Creativity ...

Creativity fuels the innovation engine. How can we increase creativity to accelerate innovation? What are leadership principles necessary to drive growth through the creative organization? Here are some great insights ... Marc Babej provides excellent summary of Peter Georgescu, Young & Rubicam, on sustainable innovation from the Fortune Innovation Forum. Peter emphasizes three points on innovation: Embrace creativity, emphasize human values, and support active involvement in investing in future generations through education. Creativity is seen as a core enterprise competency that requires a special type of leadership to cultivate and sustain. ...

Via Being Reasonable: Peter Georgescu on Sustaining Innovation ...

... "First, embrace creativity as the most vital enterprise resource. The only leverageable asset on a company's balance sheet. Creativity is the cure for lack of differentiation, and in turn it begets profits. It's an inexhasutible resource, but also fragile. Creative output requires a new type of leader, one who refuses to manipulate or manage through fear. " ...

David Tanner, Tanner & Associates, Inc., discusses harnessing and increasing the creative capability in a research and development environment. These techniques should apply to most innovation scenarios. ...

Via Winston Brill: Creativity and Innovation in R&D ...

... "It's vital to set aside quality time specifically for people to learn the techniques of creative thinking. This first step satisfies an essential criterion for cultural shift - that is, it gives status to the effort. What resources can you use to focus on this subject? In-house seminars, books and articles on creativity, and outside creativity experts. " ...

Ben Simonton expands on the leadership techniques necessary to increasing the enterprise creativity competency ...

Via Corante: What Drives Innovation?. IdeaFlow: Discussion about innovation and creativity -- new products, strategy, open innovation, commercialization of technologies, patents, idea generation, customer input in the NPD process, more.

... "The brain controls creativity, innovation, productivity, motivation and commitment. I will attempt to explain a superior leadership strategy which turns on brains to the maximum extent and thus greatly enhances innovation. ... A superior leadership strategy inspires people to do more, dream more and learn more. We all know that people are our most important asset and that the best ones are self-motivated self-starters. Unfortunately, only 5% or so are naturally that way. A superior leadership strategy is capable of making the vast majority of employees self-motivated self-starters who are highly committed and highly productive, up to 300% more so than if poorly motivated. So what is this strategy? " ...

ITIL Path to IT Service Management ...

ITIL offers a standard vocabulary for IT services and provides a guideline for key IT processes. Johanna Ambrosio explores the use of the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) to accelerate the adoption of best practices for IT service management.

ITIL Path to IT Service Management: Via SearchCIO: ITIL, a data center's yellow brick road ...

... "It took about a year to learn the ITIL lingo, have individuals become certified in the process, choose a tool and then actually do it. The firm focused on processes it did not already have in place, Metcalf said, and change management was selected because the company wanted to replace old tools. " ...

Project Management Software Conference: Primavera ...

Project Management Software Conference: Primavera: More than 40 Partners To Exhibit at Primavera Annual Conference: Via Primavera, Project and Portfolio Management

... "Primavera Systems, Inc., announced that 41 of its partners will exhibit at the company's 22 nd Annual Conference taking place November 13-16 at the Walt Disney World Dolphin Hotel in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. The event, one of the largest of its kind, expects approximately 1,500 attendees, and is a major educational forum for individuals involved in project, portfolio and resource management. " ...

Primavera is the largest independent provider of collaborative resource, project and portfolio management solutions. Primavera's world-class software and services are used by Global 2000 companies to choose the set of projects that best enable their strategy to plan, control and govern the chosen projects, and to accelerate the delivery of high-quality results for themselves and their clients.

IT Governance: Manage IT Like A Business: Transparency ...

Tideway Systems sponsors research that shows operational efficiency is still the strongest business driver of information technology in the banking sector. There is a fair amount of diversity in approach to managing IT like a business and adopting the various best practice frameworks, like ITIL. ...

IT Governance: Manage IT Like A Business: Transparency: Via Tideway Systems: Confusion Remains While Compliance Remains ...

... "Due to the intrinsic role that technology is playing in financial services the need for effective IT governance, measurability, accountability and simultaneously cost savings, have become critical. Compliance pressures on the financial services sector have served to accelerate the focus on governance capabilities within the IT department, but have not addressed the fundamental need for a fully transparent, holistic view of the IT organisation that will allow IT to achieve the ultimate goal of managing itself like a business. A variety of best practice guidelines, including the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) and COBIT (often applied to Sarbanes Oxley compliance), provide frameworks for how this is to be achieved, but the major incentives driving most projects still remain the need to achieve cost savings and provide cost transparency. " ...

When is SAP Project Complete?

Recent, Dupont announcements show that, even though an SAP project go-live is complete and stabilized, business value must be driven through follow-on projects, using methods such as Six Sigma and lean supply chain techniques. ...

When is SAP Project Complete?: Via DuPont.com: DuPont Announces Actions To Increase Shareholder Value ...

... "DuPont will accelerate work already underway to standardize and simplify its operating processes and will reduce its functional support costs to externally-benchmarked top-quartile standards. This work will make full utilization of the investment in new state-of-the-art information technology for business and financial systems (SAP) implemented over the past five years. Building on its well-established Six Sigma base, the focus will include lean global supply chain practices to strengthen service, reduce costs and reduce inventory. " ...

Business Strategy: Align Objectives and Execute

IBM launches new software that enables workers and managers throughout an organization to align their personal and departmental objectives with business strategy and drive execution of their workplace activities ...

Business Strategy: Align Objectives and Execute: Via IBM: IBM Software Helps Employees at All Levels Align Their Objectives With Company Strategy ...

... "According to feedback from IBM's customers and partners, more companies are recognizing that while they have lots of data and a sound business strategy, the execution of the strategy needs improvement. IBM Workplace for Business Strategy Execution helps employees understand their company's strategy in concrete terms, focus on what is important, and remain current on status and risks. A department leader can use IBM Workplace for Business Strategy Execution to clearly communicate team objectives and how they fit into the company's strategy; link to and monitor internal and external dependencies that could affect the ability to reach objectives; track progress toward the objectives though intuitive scorecards and dashboards; and initiate actions to correct gaps in performance. " ...

PMThink references on strategy and alignment:

• Achieve Strategy Execution: Accelerate Plan Funding Support


• Business Continuity Project: Key Part of IT Strategy ...


• Business IT Alignment: Business-Relevant Metrics


• Business IT Strategy: Successful Alignment


• Governance Alignment: Project Portfolio Management (PPM)


• IT Alignment: Cost Benefit Analysis ...


• IT Governance: SAP ESA Strategy


• IT Strategy: Motorola Exec Podcast ...


• ITIL: IT Service Catalog: Alignment Focal Point ...


• Microsoft Framework: Business IT Alignment


• PMO Role: Align Business and IT ...


• Project Failure: A Success Strategy


• Project Management Strategy Integration Conference December2005


• PublicSector CIO: Enterprise View IT Strategy


• Software Aligns Project Management With Enterprise Strategy: Enhanced Portfolio Analytics ...


• Strategic Alignment: Project Portfolio


• Strategy: Visualize the Design ...

ITIL Process Approach: Federated CMDB ...

ITIL process is an approach to delivering world-class IT services. The ITIL service management framework is supported by a configuration management database, the CMDB. A federated CMDB reference model aggregates the distributed configuration data in today's distributed environments. Tideway partners to integrate ITIL services with automated discovery through a federated CMDB approach ...

Via Tideway Systems: Tideway Partners with Leading BSM Vendors

... "Our partnership with Tideway brings two innovative UK companies together to help our customers deliver world class IT services, based on an ITIL process driven approach. Building on Interlink's strengths of a virtual, federated CMDB driving Business Service Management (BSM), the integration with the Tideway products automates the discovery of configuration and dependency data used to drive our customers real-time and historical Service Views, said Grant Glading, Vice President of Marketing at Interlink Software. The role of business management tools has become critical as IT organisations strive to control cost and deliver reliability to avoid business affecting outages in complex IT environments. Process improvements are at the heart of achieving such business service efficiency, and through the combination of leading, innovative technologies best practice can be achieved. Tideway Systems underpins these business management tools ensuring that all information upon which the infrastructure-affecting decisions are made is completely reliable and up to date. " ...

References on federated CMDB with ITIL process:

Via Computerworld: Taking the Configuration Management Database to the Next Level: The Federated Data Model: This federated approach to a CMDB offers a single, common set of information on each configuration item and its relationships with other configuration items in a manner that can be leveraged by all relevant IT processes -- creating cost-saving synergy among different service management functions.

Via nLayers: Federated CMDB: A configuration management database (CMDB) strategy is central to the IT Service Management framework implementation described in the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) documents. ... By adopting a federated CMDB approach, IT organizations can leverage data repositories throughout their environment through integration and utilization of open interfaces to share data.

Via Managed Objects: Business Service Configuration Manager: BSCM resolves the challenges created by today's process model adoption realities by providing a series of capabilities that actually help IT organizations accelerate their adoption of process maturity models like ITIL. ... BSCM enables available sources of configuration data to be mined and/or discovered, their inputs combined, differences reconciled, a service to be mapped, BSVs to be automatically generated and a federated CMDB based on the central point of reference the vCMDB created.

IT Governance: Service Portfolio Management Applications ...

It's raining, it's pouring ... EPM software vendors are accelerating their delivery of new service portfolio management applications in support of IT governance processes. Troux delivers IT Governance software to the marketplace, with a service portfolio management module. ...

IT Governance: Service Portfolio Management Applications: Via Troux: Troux Announces IT Governance Applications ...

... "Services Portfolio Management offers a centralized repository for digital service cataloging, built-in workflow and automated SLA compliance analysis. The application allows IT managers to accelerate IT services planning, delivery and management to better demonstrate the value to the business. " ...

Troux Technologies (pronounced "true") is a global provider of IT Governance software that accelerates IT and business transformation. Troux's IT Governance solutions enable organizations to strategically plan the enterprise, capture and analyze critical IT and business data and deliver actionable decisions to transform the business. Troux's breakthrough technology provides the enterprise-class information, policies, and analytics critical for IT excellence. With Troux, organizations succeed in breaking the traditional IT silos and effectively aligning IT with core business goals. Based in Austin, Texas, Troux Technologies serves the Global 1000 and government marketplaces.

Seamless Project Management System: Enables Accelerated Drug Development Process

Seamless Project Management System: Enables Accelerated Drug Development Process: Via Aptuit: Aptuit Vaults to Sector Leadership, Unveils New Global Management Team ...

Aptuit assembles leadership team, integrates acquisition(s), and builds foundation of project management process and system technology to accelerate the drug development lifecycle. ...

... "The new management team will guide Aptuit’s staff of nearly 2,000 people, a workforce composed of highly experienced professionals who will spearhead resources from seven global facilities that generated total revenues of over $200 million and served over 250 clients in the last year. Additionally, the management team will oversee the industry’s first seamless IT system that enables end-to-end customer-accessible project management and test data. " ...

Aptuit, Inc. is an emerging company focused on streamlining and supporting the drug development process for biotechnology and pharmaceutical innovators. The company was founded by a group of industry experts with extensive market experience who have a track record of building a similar, highly successful company through acquisitions and investment. Aptuit will provide a comprehensive suite of product development services and competencies to biotechnology companies and large, fully integrated pharmaceutical companies worldwide. Aptuit’s mission is to engineer a better drug development process, and is partnered with Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, one of the world’s largest private equity investors.

Project Management: Accelerate New Product Design in Semicon Industry ...

Project Management: Accelerate New Product Design in Semicon Industry: Via MatrixOne: MatrixOne and Leading Analyst Firm to Discuss How to Accelerate Chip Design Through Better Project Management ...

MatrixOne and AMR Research join forces in webcast to explore acceleration of project management for designing and delivering new products to the marketplace in the semicon industry. Eric Karofsky has published recent research on accelerating innovation ("Reach Innovation Utopia With Project Management Tools") ...

... "MatrixOne, Inc. (NASDAQ: MONEE), a leading provider of collaborative product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions for the value chain , announced that it will present a webcast aimed at helping project managers in semiconductor companies learn how they can use better project planning, execution and tracking solutions to better meet today's chip design challenges and deliver new products faster. The webcast will feature a presentation by Eric Karofsky, senior research analyst for AMR Research, who will discuss the latest industry trends and best practices for speeding product development. The live webcast will take place on Thursday, September 29, 2005 at 1:00 pm ET. " ...

AMR Research provides world class research and actionable advice for executives tasked with delivering enhanced business process performance and cost savings with the aid of technology. Five thousand leaders in the Global 1000 put their trust in AMR Research's integrity, depth of industry expertise, and passion for customer service to support their most critical business initiatives, including supply chain transformation; new product introduction, customer profitability, compliance and governance, and IT benefit realization.

MatrixOne, Inc. (NASDAQ: MONEE), a leading global provider of collaborative product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services, enables companies to accelerate product innovation to achieve top line revenue growth and improve bottom line profitability. With world-class PLM solutions and a commitment to customer success, MatrixOne is focused on helping companies across the automotive, aerospace & defense, consumer, machinery, medical device, semiconductor and high-tech industries solve their most challenging new product development and introduction problems. More than 800 companies use MatrixOne's solutions to drive business value and gain a competitive advantage, including industry leaders such as BAE Systems, Bosch, Comau, General Electric, Honda, Johnson Controls, Linde AG, NCR, Nokia, Philips, Porsche, Procter & Gamble, Sony Ericsson, STMicroelectronics and Toshiba. MatrixOne is headquartered in Westford, Massachusetts, with locations throughout North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific.

IT Service Transformation Through ITIL Service Catalogs ...

IT Service Transformation Through ITIL Service Catalogs: newScale Showcases ITIL Service Catalog at 2005 itSMF USA Conference: IT Service Catalog Leader Shares Best Practices ...

newScale will demo their best-practice ITIL service catalogs, which are key to enabling IT service transformations, at upcoming conference ...

... "newScale®, Inc., the market leader in IT Service Catalog and Service Portfolio Management software solutions, announced today that it will showcase examples of best practice Service Catalogs at the itSMF USA Conference and Expo. newScale will demonstrate the benefits of the ITIL Service Catalog solution used in production today by many of America’s most admired companies. Conference attendees can find newScale in booth # 731 at the expo to be held at McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois, September 19-23, 2005. " ...

Founded in 1997, the itSMF USA is a rapidly growing non-profit organization which promotes the use of industry best practices and standards on the provision and management of IT Services. Current membership exceeds 3,000 members, with affiliated Local Interest Groups serving more than 21+ cities nationwide. The itSMF USA organization is affiliated with the itSMF international association, formed in 1991 and is headquartered in London, England. This global organization has over 2,500 member companies, with international chapters in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland and USA.

newScale, Inc. is the leader in Service Portfolio Management software solutions for Global 2000 companies, with more than 800,000 users worldwide. newScale solutions enable IT and other service organizations to catalog their portfolio of services, govern demand for services, manage delivery of services, and optimize service quality. newScale customers – including Hewlett-Packard Company, Intuit Incorporated, and Starbucks Coffee Company – benefit from increased operational efficiency, reduced costs, improved service levels, and greater IT/business alignment.

Agile Project Management Software APM: Distributed Visibility ...

Via Rally Software Development: RALLY continues to drive agile development market with launch of RALLY release 5 ...

Rally offers project management tools (APM) that support agile software development practices, enabling real-time visibility across distributed teams ...

... "Scale Agile Project Management (APM) to large, complex projects - New Program Roadmaps and feature complete reports allow customers to effectively plan and manage large-scale Agile development projects involving hundreds of team members distributed across multiple, concurrent projects. " ...

Based in Boulder, Colo., Rally Software Development is the leader in on-demand software lifecycle management solutions for scaling Agile development practices across the enterprise and around the globe. The company’s customers include leading software vendors, Internet companies and corporate development teams that are committed to improving their responsiveness to new opportunities and fast-changing customer demands. Rally marries Agile project management with tracking of requirements, tests and defects so larger or distributed teams gain the visibility and collaboration needed to define, develop and deliver high-value software in rapid iterations. Rally’s world-renown coaches and expert partners complement its tooling with training and consulting services for creating the Agile organization.

Benefits Realization: Accelerate Time to Value

Often, benefits do not immediately accrue at the completion of an IT project. A period of stabilization is needed for the newly-enabled business process(es). Also, the workforce may need to be nurtured to drive adoption rates to the targeted levels.

In order to accelerate time to value, key process indicators and usage rates should be baselined prior to go-live and tracked immediately following. Techniques, such as Six Sigma, may be required to ensure delivery of the full business value by methodically eliminating defects that prevent world-class process performance.

References on benefits realization:

Via Planview: PlanView Announces Results of CIO Survey: Fortune 1000 Companies Say Benefits Realization a Key IT Challenge ...

... "Benefits realization is a key component to the clear communication of IT's contribution to the overall objectives of the organization. It begins with the strategic initiative and is reviewed in a disciplined cycle through funding, project definition and execution and product or service deployment to provable benefit realized. " ...

Via IBM: Reaching efficient frontiers in IT investment management ...

... "And measuring doesn’t end as soon as the project does. A key aspect of value realization is post-implementation evaluation to assess the actual benefit realization at future points in time. Initial project planning needs to include benefit assessment after the project has been delivered. " ...

Via DMReview: Managing a Breakthrough Data Warehousing Project ...

... "The trend for the 21st century is to manage portfolios of projects which include IT as a component, or intermediary outcome, of the entire life cycle from concept to benefits achievement. An effective project management methodology is needed to detail the planning process necessary to ensure the business objectives are met. " ...

Achieve Strategy Execution: Accelerate Plan Funding Support

Achieve Strategy Execution: Accelerate Plan Funding Support: Via Knowledge Infusion: Knowledge Infusion Announces HCM Accelerate; Packaged Service to Jumpstart Strategic HCM Technology Initiatives ...

Knowledge Infusion has distilled the key ingredients to accelerating the execution of strategy: The Plan, Funding, and Support; in their packaged service offering. These are critical factors when aligning a solution with the business strategy and spearheading a project through the demand management process to governance ...

... "The biggest hurdle organizations have to overcome in achieving their HCM strategy is organizational inertia—the inability to generate internal momentum around a project, says Heidi Spirgi, President of Knowledge Infusion. HCM Accelerate is designed to help transform HCM vision into execution both quickly and cost-effectively. At the end of the engagement, organizations will have a plan, the funding, and the executive support—the three prerequisites to execution. " ...

Knowledge Infusion is a strategic consulting organization dedicated to helping organizations realize the true value of Human Capital Management (HCM) technologies. Knowledge Infusion works with clients to map HCM technology strategies based on their unique business needs, optimize existing HCM applications, and tie HCM initiatives to specific, measurable business results.

Program Management Software: Operational Excellence Portfolio...

Program Management Software: Operational Excellence Portfolio: Via PowerSteering Software, Inc.: POWERSTEERING SOFTWARE EXPANDS OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE MARKET SHARE, ADDS SEVERAL LEADING SIX SIGMA CUSTOMERS: Strong Demand Spurs Funding to Support Continued Expansion ...

Program management of a portfolio of Six Sigma projects requires visibility to enable smart decision making on the road to operational excellence. Software that enables program management, such as PowerSteering, becomes a key enabler when managing a globally-distributed, diversified portfolio of operational efficiency projects. Executive leadership is interested in the value potential, time-to-value, and probability of success of the portfolio. Providing these answers allows more robust program management. ...

... "As Operational Excellence strategies like Six Sigma continue to exhibit a strong resurgence in the market, we have seen an increased need for PowerSteering to provide executives with global visibility and real-time decision making, said Stephen Sharp, President and CEO of PowerSteering. With words and actions, analysts, customers, investors and partners are all telling us the same thing, PowerSteering is the leading company for Six Sigma and other Operational Excellence programs. " ...

PowerSteering Software, the leader in Enterprise Performance Improvement, provides OnDemand program management solutions for Lean, Six Sigma, and other Operational Excellence initiatives and large-scale programs. PowerSteering’s solutions provide executives with real-time visibility, strategy alignment, and enhanced program and team effectiveness, empowering more than 65 customers, including GE, Raytheon, Textron and Tyco, to drive strategy and accelerate results across the enterprise. PowerSteering’s solutions manage more than $25 billion in target savings, support more than 75,000 active users, and track more than 150,000 projects.

Tag: Portfolio Management

Accelerate Project Delivery: Valuable Techniques ...

Accelerate Project Delivery: Valuable Techniques: Via CalDOT Division of Design - Project Acceleration - Design Excellence

Caltrans provides toolbox for project managers that highlights project delivery acceleration techniques, such as cycle-time methods, reengineering, and sequencing ...

... "The purpose of this document is to provide Caltrans' employees as well as our external partners some valuable tools that can be used to help accelerate project delivery. This document contains a compilation of all the Department's recent acceleration techniques. This report also identifies some additional changes which are proposed to be implemented over the next few years. " ...

The Division of Design provides the procedures, policy, standards, guidance, technical assistance, and training needed to facilitate California transportation improvements and system integrity.

Turnkey Processes For PMO Setup: Project Management Office

Project Management Office: Set up your Project Management Office with easy to use, SOX compliant project management office processes ...

... "Set up processes for organizational project management. Processes On Demand can be used for both dedicated PMOs as well as virtual PMOs and helps to ensure rapid adoption and consistent execution of PMO processes and best practices. " ...

BOT International is a leading provider of software solutions for project management processes. BOT International helps project management offices and IT organizations reduce costs, save time, and improve project results. BOT International is headquartered in Orlando, Florida, with sales offices in Orlando, Florida; New York, New York; Nashua, New Hampshire; Dallas, Texas; Newport Beach, California; and Singapore.