Decision Lens Blog

Organizations from all industries are investing in a new set of powerful software solutions focused on making smarter portfolio-level decisions. Executives are no longer making strategic prioritization decisions using only spreadsheets and meetings. Key features like managing projects, scheduling ...

Sometimes the hardest part of building the capital plan isn't massaging the numbers and prioritizing the projects. The most grueling challenge can be facilitating discussions with all the various stakeholders - many of whom have competing interests and complex personalities and communication styles ...

Our very own Kevin Connor was featured on an Innovation Enterprise webcast about “Evaluating Risk & Reward in Innovation Project Selection”. Click here for the recording.

When you’re selling a software solution that most organizations haven’t ever heard of or seen before, you spend a lot of time evangelizing.  You spend a lot of time asking a set of foundation questions. What is the software?  Why would someone need it?  What does it actually do?  How is it ...

When technology is squarely at the center of your business differentiation, trying to find ways to cut costs OUT of technology can be an arduous and painful process, to say the least. But that’s the situation that Boeing found itself in the middle of, looking to move resources to more ...

Practitioner Series on Making Strategy Execution a Reality | Part 3 of 3
 Part 1  |  Part 2 Strategy Execution is a top-down process. It starts with a clear idea from leadership of what opportunities should be pursued, the operating capabilities required to get there, and the outcomes that should ...

Practitioner Series on Making Strategy Execution a Reality | Part 2 of 3
 Part 1  |  Part 3 It is very understandable (and common) to hear from clients “we really want to focus on execution right now.” They want to focus on enabling their PMOs and leveraging PPM systems to better manage delivery ...

Practitioner Series on Making Strategy Execution a Reality | Part 1 of 3 Part 2  |  Part 3 Governance – the overall structure and daily management of activities and initiatives that help achieve corporate goals. The topic has somehow become a taboo subject to many organizations.