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Portfolio Design Maturity Check: Are You Ready for Tomorrow?

Organizations today face unprecedented complexity and relentless change. Portfolio design is fundamentally about an organization's capability to navigate and respond effectively to continuous change. Assessing the maturity of your strategic portfolio management approach can significantly enhance your organization's readiness and adaptability, empowering teams to confidently face tomorrow's challenges through enhanced visibility, intentionality, optimization, and anticipation.

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Watermelon Metrics: Green on the Outside, Red on the Inside

December 4, 2023
Peter Maddison

This blog explores the concept of "watermelon metrics" in business, where surface-level positive metrics mask underlying issues and inefficiencies. It discusses the causes, such as measuring the wrong things, lack of psychological safety, and misalignment of goals. It also provides strategies for detecting and resolving these misleading metrics, emphasizing the importance of transparency, accurate data, and actionable metrics.

Rescuing a Project When It’s Gone Off Track – The Why’s and How’s

October 18, 2023
Peter Maddison

This blog explores the high failure rates of digital transformation programs, identifying common causes such as unclear objectives, inadequate planning, resource constraints, and ineffective communication. It provides a high-level approach to recovering derailed projects, emphasizing the importance of assessment, realignment of objectives, revising plans, finding the correct solutions, and enhancing communication.

The team at the center

October 13, 2023
Gino Marckx

This blog explores the distinction between project and product views in agile practices, highlighting the benefits of a product-centric approach but also the challenges it can pose when misinterpreted. It argues for a team-centric view, where agile practices are tailored to the team's reality, optimizing their ability to deliver value effectively. The blog emphasizes the importance of understanding agile principles and adapting them to fit the specific context and objectives of the team.

What’s the fuss about autonomy?

November 23, 2022
Gino Marckx

Explore the difference between autonomy and empowerment in organizations. Learn how true autonomy enhances ownership, accountability, and motivation in agile teams. Discover the impact of autonomous units on modern delivery approaches and organizational success.

Every impression is a first impression

September 15, 2022
Gino Marckx

Learn how to make impactful first impressions and build trust in every professional interaction. Discover tips for effective communication. Start improving today!

5 business agility benefits and 5 obstacles: Summing it all up

August 23, 2022
Peter Maddison

Explore the principles of business agility and its impact on your bottom line. Discover both the benefits and challenges of adopting business agility to enhance system resiliency and align with your company’s purpose.