Beyond the Headlines

In the last couple of blogs, we’ve discussed faster time to value and the pursuit of healthy return on investment, within the context of Forrester’s recent total economic impact analysis for ServiceNo...

Quick Start Guide for Project Portfolio Management

If you are starting your journey with ServiceNow's Project Portfolio Management of Strategic Portfolio Management – this guide will provide a brief overview about Project Portfolio Management and how ...

Quick Start Guide for Demand Management

If you are starting your journey with ServiceNow's Demand Management of Strategic Portfolio Management – this guide will provide a brief overview about Demand Management and how to get started with it...

Q4 2023 Strategic Portfolio Management store release

Companies have to do more with less. More work but with less resources and less budget. But how do companies determine which initiatives to work on and which to resource and fund? There should be a fr...

In Pursuit of ROI

How many organizational investments have achieved a return of 365% over three years? Probably not too many, and it’s definitely a level of ROI that would lead to an initiative being approved. Well, th...

Last Thursdays with SPM: Technology Portfolio Management

Our October Last Thursdays with SPM webinar featured Sr. Principal Product Manager, Gerard Berthet, and Principal Product Success Manager, Mark Castoe, who discussed the key concepts of Technology Por...

The Need for Speed

Organizations today are looking to become as streamlined and efficient as possible. Time to value is becoming an increasingly essential metric, as organizations that can minimize the time between the ...

LPM + OKRs: Together for Optimal Performance

In the last two blog posts we looked at the concept of lean portfolio management – LPM, and at objectives and key results – OKRs. Both of these concepts are designed to help an organization improve it...

Measuring What Matters

You may have heard the maxim, measure what matters. Aside from being good advice, it’s also the title of a very successful strategic management book by John Doerr. The book focuses on the concept of o...

SPM & LPM – What’s in a Letter?

Strategic portfolio management (SPM) is becoming a well-established discipline in leading organizations. The reason for this is that it works, especially when supported by a world-class software solut...

Strategic Portfolio Management Vancouver release - deliver initiatives that provide value

Change is constant. Companies struggle to keep up with changing priorities and balance current work with incoming demand. As priorities shift, companies lack the visibility to make data-driven decisio...

Last Thursdays with SPM: New Resource Management Capabilities

As promised in our June Last Thursdays with SPM session (Resource Management - Benefits and Best Practices), our August webinar showcased new resource management features with Erin Roberts, Senior Sol...

Why teams love the project to product movement

For work teams, the transition from project-based work to product-based work has a number of significant advantages, the most obvious of which is that it offers stability. Teams are assigned to a prod...

Digital products – consistent value delivery

In today’s world, software applications can be managed at a lightning-fast pace. DevOps and continuous delivery can virtually eliminate any delays between application completion and delivery, allowing...