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What makes organizations successful today? It’s the ability to deliver innovative solutions, products and services that leverage leading edge technologies in less time, and with greater performance, t...

Deliver on strategy with laser-focused resource planning, lenses, and financials with SPM

With the start of the new year, organizations are reviewing their roadmaps and adjusting their initiatives to align to strategy. When making trade-off decisions, there are many factors to consider. On...

Improving business performance through integrated technology management

In the last blog we looked at the need to manage technology investments effectively in order to control costs and risks. We explored some of the capabilities of ServiceNow Application Portfolio Manage...

Unlocking Business Agility: Why Your Lean Portfolio Needs an Architecture Runway

You may have heard the term tossed around in discussions about enterprise architecture, but what exactly is the Architecture Runway, and why does it matter for your lean portfolio? In this blog post, ...

Are you managing your technology, or is it managing you?

Organizations today can’t function without technology – a lot of technology. Applications, and the infrastructure that supports them, are essential elements to virtually every aspect of business. Thos...

SPM Academy (Last Thursdays with SPM): Optimizing Technology Spend and Mitigating Risk

Opening our 2024 season of SPM Academy, we heard from Adam Smith-Cairns, Senior Product Marketing Manager, IT Asset Management, and Debbra McGrath, Principal Product Marketing Engineer. This duo showe...

The PMO and Strategic Planning

In the last blog we explored the idea of strategic planning, and replanning within the concept of strategic portfolio management (SPM). But strategic planning isn’t just about executives. It takes col...

Strategic Planning Done Right

Strategic planning can make or break an organization. Set the wrong goals, or approve the wrong investments, and success for the next business period may already be impossible. Leaders are increasingl...

Delivering Cost Optimization

In the last several blogs, we’ve explored the idea of cost optimization and why it’s important, and then seen how ServiceNow can support the analysis of technology investments to identify where opport...

Analyze and Plan with Confidence

In the last blog we started to look at cost optimization at a time when organizations are seeking to ensure that every dollar spent is working as hard as possible for the business. And we began to exp...

Last Thursdays with SPM: Product Feedback

The final Last Thursdays with SPM webinar of 2023, was delivered by Senior Outbound Product Manager, Irene Vieth and Principal Product Marketing Engineer, Debbra McGrath, who led us through the world ...

The Importance of Cost Optimization

In today’s uncertain world, the ability to control expenditure is key. Organizations are looking to leverage important emerging trends like generative AI, but at the same time they are being cautious ...

You Know Where the Money's Going, Right?

Financial planning is one of the most critical functions for any organization. Get it wrong and either you can’t fund what you need to deliver, or you leave opportunity on the table by not investing e...

The Right Priorities, Chosen the Right Way

For many organizations, strategic planning and delivery has been a significant problem in the past. And while much of the focus is placed on the ability of those organizations to execute on their stra...