Most employees want to be productive. However, HBR Research indicates that companies lose more than 20% of their productive capacity to organizational structures and processes that consume valuable time and prevent people from getting work done. Before implementing Planview, many of our customers encountered challenges with tools and information being siloed. Often, teams would waste time doing non-value adding administrative work (status reports, manual data entry, etc.), resulting in lower productivity. With the adoption of Planview, existing tools and information are connected, with reporting and administrative tasks automated. This empowers teams to focus on strategic work with higher productivity rates of value-adding work.

Balancing available resources against demand for those resources is essential to the success of any organization. With only 37% of projects being delivered on time and budgets/resources stretched thin, it’s now more important than ever for organizations to “do more with less”. Before implementing Planview, many of our customers’ plans failed due to committed requests exceeding capacity and plans being approved before resource capacity could be evaluated. This often resulted in objectives being missed, delayed, or deferred and employees getting burned out. With Planview, customers can easily identify resource capacity bottlenecks and roadblocks with resources/funding jointly accounted for before plans are approved. This allows for objectives to be met or exceeded and an increased confidence and satisfaction from employees and stakeholders.

As companies have adopted more standalone tools for nearly every business activity imaginable, their ecosystems have become saturated with apps and software. In fact, large enterprises use an average of 1,061 applications across their businesses, according to Deloitte. Many of the organizations we work with were juggling an excess of unrelated (and often overlapping) tools. Their tech bloat contributed to issues such as rework, hidden bottlenecks or dependencies, and overall inefficiency. Using Planview, many companies gain a single source of truth for the first time. Cross-silo reporting is effortless; there’s a measurable decrease in rework; dependencies and bottlenecks are understood; and enterprise processes are lean and efficient.

We partner with more than half of the Fortune 100 for their integration and visibility needs, and they’ve shared they lost thousands of hours of productivity each year to these issues. Before Planview, they shared that tools and information were siloed, making manual data duplication necessary. Decisions were made with out-of-date information or a limited understanding of risk. As a result, they weren’t working on the most important work. With Planview, resources are focused on the most critical initiatives. Cross-silo reporting is effortless, and enterprise processes are lean and efficient.

In most organizations, skilled development teams can create code at high velocity. But the 2023 Project to Product State of the Industry Report reveals that completed code commonly idles for more than 3 months before it’s released. Before implementing Planview, many of our customers were plagued by their inability to adapt to changing market conditions and disruptive competitors. They had no idea how to optimize their Agile methodologies outside individual teams, how to address their internal dependencies or how to scale down the heavy planning and funding processes that slowed their time to market. With Planview in place, Engineering leaders have end-to-end data that reveals when delivery is at risk or delayed. They can visually connect their work and have a complete view into work in progress as well as leading indicators that allow them to course correct quickly in response to shifts in external or internal conditions.

If you said yes, you are not alone. According to a study by McKinsey, 70% of large-scale transformations fail. One of the most common concerns we hear from Engineering leaders is that they have difficulty connecting their investments into digital transformation with their teams’ outputs. Before implementing Planview, many of our customers had conflicting priorities between business and IT and no unified way to measure progress of strategic initiatives. Hiring more developers created some momentum, but only at the team level. Silos and disconnected toolchains interfered with collaboration and made it impossible to visualize work. After implementing Planview, they can connect data from across business functions and technology delivery teams and gain clear visibility into how their investments in strategic initiatives are performing, as well as how development teams are directly delivering value to customers and the business.

Almost all organizations find this a challenge. According to a study published in Harvard Business Review, only 11% of organizations have sufficient resources allocated to support their critical initiatives and strategic priorities. Before implementing a Planview solution, many customers struggled to plan, resource, and deliver on their most critical strategic initiatives – especially during times of market disruption. With the adoption of the Planview strategic portfolio management solution, organizations gain the capability to perform near real-time simulations essential for evaluating impacts. This empowers them to swiftly readjust investment priorities and delivery strategies in response to shifts in external or internal conditions.

One of the most common concerns we hear from EPMO leaders is that they lack visibility and insight to prioritize the strategic fit, potential risks, resource allocation, and overall impact of digital projects. According to Gartner, the absence of a structured and strategic approach to managing digital investments could result in 70% of projects failing to deliver expected business outcomes by 2025. Before implementing a Planview solution, customers struggled to deliver. Stumbling blocks included a lack of a single portfolio management system, inconsistent processes, and data spread across disparate spreadsheets. With a Planview solution as the centralized system for making investment decisions, you can select investments that will have the most significant impact on the business, in context with the overall portfolio. Strategy is connected to delivery, helping to achieve company objectives and cultivate organizational agility.