David Oates, VP of international sales for the company, explains THAT the metrics most often requested by customers are the available skills and the unfillable demand, along with the ratio of permanent to contract staff working within a portfolio...
The problem is that many business activities aren't given a process-like structure by managers, according to Dan Rossner, senior consultant at PA Consulting: "Defined projects in the IT space have a clear start, middle and end, and a finite...
Not all PMOs are mature enough to handle functions such as change management effectively. Disruptive activities and technologies that often first appear at the grassroots level have been known to dramatically improve efficiency when adopted...
CA expects the majority of Niku's 270 employees to move across after completion of the deal. Joshua Pickus, CEO of Niku - which means 'meat' in Japanese - said: "Our combined company will be able to provide global customers with a one-stop source...
So we have business service management from the management software companies, project portfolio management from the planning software companies and corporate performance management from the business intelligence software companies.
Phanish Puranam, assistant professor of strategic and international management at the London Business School (LBS), says best practice is to operate from a portfolio perspective. He says: "People are increasingly looking at the whole portfolio of...