The BMI Lab Blog

JUNE 10, 2021

For the past decades, companies have been defining their strategy following a traditional approach: On the one hand, they analyzed trends, selected the most relevant ones, and designed their strategy based on a “clear view of the future”. The strategy becomes a portfolio of different, coordinated business models.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 26, 2018

Some use Agile methodology, some use design thinking, but whatever method they’re using, we see that there are a few distinct activities associated with innovation and that’s how we created our IdeaScale stages. Here they are described most broadly but these stages can be edited, re-ordered or modified by anyone: Strategy.

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Planview

JANUARY 10, 2022

Connecting PSA to the broader enterprise starts with plugging professional services into the corporate strategy. However, for many organizations it is even more complex in the aftermath of COVID-19 where optimal visibility, agility, project management and communications are essential for organizational success. Conclusion.

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Planview

MAY 29, 2024

You can read parts one and two here: Maximizing Your PMO’s Value Starts with a Mindset Shift Eliminate the Disconnects that Undermine Your PMO’s Value If you haven’t yet, be sure to check out our existing webinars in this series. This is something we’ll dive deeper into in our upcoming webinar titled “Long-Term Thinking for Today’s PMO.”

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Innovation Excellence

MARCH 24, 2017

Living now in what Daniel Pink describes as “The Conceptual Age” our attention needs to be on both enhancing creativity, agility and in developing customer empathy.

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Planview

APRIL 29, 2022

We’ve included four webinars in this post to help you make this shift. These four webinars will show you pragmatic steps and approaches to elevate the PMO’s journey. See how to drive more value and agility , as well as how to maximize the benefits of becoming a modern PMO. Access the on-demand webinar here to learn more.

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Planview

JUNE 17, 2024

In research conducted by Economist Impact, commissioned by Planview , 86% of executives believe their organization needs to improve accountability in strategy implementation. Choosing the best strategic portfolio management (SPM) solution for your enterprise can be tough, but it’s a topic at the forefront of many business leaders’ minds.

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Planview

JULY 15, 2022

In this post, you will find questions and answers from an incredibly timely and informative webinar that provided crucial new product development best practices based on lessons learned from the pandemic. Cooper mainly focuses on three of those six practices: Effective Portfolio Management Lean Development Agile Stage-Gate.

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Cris Beswick

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Does culture still eat strategy for breakfast? That’s the question which I posted in a webinar which I was invited to present by ‘We are lean and agile’, a company whose vision statement is ‘making improvement easier for you.’ The post If you want innovation, start with the right breakfast!

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Open innovation is a core strategy for transformative growth amongst a growing number of enterprise companies around the world. After that, I decided to chart a different course by exploring my other interests and developing my creative side, which I expressed by founding an interior design and workspace strategy firm in 2010.

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Gregg Fraley

MARCH 17, 2021

Free Weekly Webinar of Facilitation Tools with Gregg Fraley. The 30 minute weekly webinar features demonstrations of various facilitation tools for: strategy, challenge clarification, idea generation (aka brainstorming), problem framing, idea selection, innovation projects, and idea development, etc.

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Planview

JANUARY 11, 2024

When you’re done reading, be sure to register for our upcoming webinar on February 1 st, 2024, with Senior Customer Success Strategist, Dave Blumhorst, and global PMO thought leader, Andy Jordan, to learn more. Think of it as your strategic advisor, helping drive strategy to meet executive expectations. How Does Your PMO Think?

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Planview

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Left, right, and center, traditional organizations are replacing Waterfall project management with Agile planning. In a recent Webinar , Planview’s Marcus Klein, Group VP of Product Management, and Naomi Lurie, VP Product Marketing, talked about how PMOs are evolving.

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Planview

DECEMBER 21, 2022

On the topic of economic uncertainty, Global PMO thought leader Andy Jordan, and Planview’s own Dave Blumhorst recently sat down for a webinar on Maximizing PMO Value During Times of Economic Uncertainty to address how businesses can adapt to a market influenced by economic downturn. Create and Maintain an Integrated Demand Backlog.

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ImagineNation

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

It seems that we need to explore and set the most useful strategies towards cultivating the most resourceful psychological and neurological resources to survive and thrive through extreme uncertainty and chaotic times. Developing tolerance of ambiguity and a culture of constant refinement, review, and revision. Mindset matters most.

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ImagineNation

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Both of these are causing disruptive and unpredictable workforce changes, the need for new working practices, and a different set of mindsets and behaviours founded in cultivating an independent will, mental toughness, and emotional agility. Cultivating discomfort resilience, mental toughness, and emotional agility.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

Managers and leaders must understand the dynamics of team collaboration strategies to foster high performance and innovation within their teams. For a deeper exploration of how to define roles within a team, read our article on team collaboration strategies.

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Planview

MAY 3, 2023

The two sat down with PM Today’s Associate Editor Amy Hatton for a webinar on how to automate, scale, and adapt to unlock transformational value across an organization. Register for the webinar , and learn all about their insights below. Does any of this sound familiar? You’re not alone.

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Planview

AUGUST 29, 2023

Organizations require an effective capacity planning strategy. In this blog, we highlight some best practices from our recent webinar, Getting Capacity Planning Right , with Planview’s David Blumhorst and AJ Shavell, as they demonstrate real-world examples from working with customers who are getting capacity planning right.

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Planview

DECEMBER 28, 2022

One essential part of this adaptation strategy is building a strong product portfolio ; this requires a unified approach to aligning portfolio objectives with the overall business strategy, not just within a single team or function. This four-part model consists of the following: Strategy Orientation Balance Investment.

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ImagineNation

DECEMBER 13, 2020

What causes disconnection and how might we manage it to be more mentally tough and emotionally agile in an extremely uncertain future? What are the key elements of our organisational strategy to enact our purpose and deliver our mission? What really matters to us, our teams, organisations, and customers? pm Sydney and Melbourne, 11.00

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Planview

OCTOBER 18, 2023

They ensure that their goals and initiatives are aligned with their high-level strategy, from top leadership all the way down to the teams that deliver the work. The C-suite has a holistic view across the lifecycle of its strategies, while the EPMO has delivery information at their fingertips to pivot funding when needed.

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ImagineNation

JULY 6, 2021

Where organisation, leaders, and teams can increase speed, agility and improve simplicity and strategically generate new ways of tapping into the power of, and harnessing, and mobilizing people’s collective intelligence. Leveraging collective genius. Find out more about our work at ImagineNation.

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Planview

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Planview Roadmaps transforms static, siloed visualizations into an interactive, seamless experience that connects every team and the application where their work is tracked to strategy, outcomes, and delivery. They’re not agile enough. We sat down with Planview Chief Product Officer Louise Allen for the rest of the story.

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mjvinnovation

JUNE 1, 2020

This new normal brings about an opportunity to rethink your organization’s strategy, positioning, and offers. Another reason for your company to rethink its strategy is that beliefs and behaviors are changing because of the crisis. Thus, step by step, we can formulate strategies to overcome it. What is your company doing?

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Innov8rs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

We tuned in to recent webinars by Sopheon’s Mike Bauer and Paul Heller to get answers to that billion-dollar question. He advises executives on how to be more successful in innovation and execution of strategies such as sustainability. These are all managed as Portfolios, and they filter back up to the Strategy and Governance.

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ImagineNation

AUGUST 3, 2021

This is validated by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), who outlined, in a recent article the key strategies employed by most innovative companies in 2021 that “forward-looking leaders soon looked to broader needs affecting their companies’ futures, such as resilience, digital transformation, and customer relevance”.

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ImagineNation

JANUARY 28, 2021

Innovation teams transform creative discoveries and ideas into new platforms and business models in timely, agile, and disciplined ways that bring significant value to the market and organisation. Transform creative discoveries. Role of collective mindsets and behaviours. The typically large financial investment that is required to fund them.

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Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Within the general scope of UX design there are different ways to involve the users: generating new ideas for product features, getting feedback on new releases/betas, running conferences or webinars, conducting research workshops, and so on, and it’s not as if organizations aren’t doing some of this already.

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Planview

AUGUST 18, 2023

The focus is driving execution aligned with company strategy. Here are a few of the main ones: Connect investments and work delivery to company strategy: This is a continuous process that keeps everyone and everything always aligned with strategy. Companies use PPM to manage project and work delivery on a functional scale.

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Planview

JANUARY 24, 2024

Too often, they create a gap between an organization’s strategy and its actual implementation. Read on to learn how customer-centric subscription services can help bridge your strategy and implementation gap and how you can avoid common pitfalls. This is an essential step that will pave the way for successful strategy execution.

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 8, 2019

Considering these sobering statistics, it’s little wonder that even the world’s largest companies are increasingly pursuing bold innovation strategies to withstand disruption, rather than resting on their laurels. Check out this fascinating webinar to learn how PMI has managed this‘self-disrupting’ transformation initiative.

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Daniel Burrus

MAY 20, 2020

Take Anticipatory Action, Not Agile Reaction. No matter how agile or clever you are, repeatedly reacting to problems and issues will eventually be a never-ending cycle. What transformative opportunity does that foster for your organization? One element of being a manager is the necessity of reacting to crises.

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Planview

AUGUST 12, 2022

A product-focused strategy and mindset can create agile organizations, increase productivity, and drive innovation. Instead of searching around the company for someone who understands the product, the entire product team has expertise and is ready to tackle issues, which allows for incredible agility and flexibility.

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