The Strategic Portfolio Management Bar Has Moved. Here’s What Clears It.

Most large organizations have a timing problem. Data and dashboards sprawl across the enterprise. But insight rarely arrives fast enough to change outcomes. Forrester’s report, The Strategic Portfolio Management Tools Landscape, Q4 2025, spans more than 20 vendors and ten distinct use cases, reflecting just how complex the planning ecosystem has become. As organizations connect…

Finding Balance on Unsteady Ground: Insights from Planview’s 2025 State of Strategy Execution Benchmark Report

In 2021, Planview published a benchmark report examining organizations’ strategy execution capabilities during periods of business disruption and uncertainty. The pandemic served as a powerful example of how organizations could move faster than previously imagined under pressure—but it also revealed that approaches designed for crisis management might not sustain long-term competitive advantage. Over the past…

Integrating Demand Management and Prioritization for Strategic Advantage

Over the past three blogs, we’ve taken you on a journey from identifying the strategic costs of broken processes to mastering demand management and building intelligent prioritization frameworks. Today, we complete the picture by showing why integration—not just process improvement—creates sustainable competitive advantage. Fixing demand management or prioritization in isolation can certainly reduce chaos and…

From Inbox Chaos to Strategic Pipeline: Mastering Demand Management

The first blog in this series explored how broken demand management and prioritization processes create strategic chaos and outlined steps to identify where problems exist and how to correct them. Today, we dive deeper into the first half of this critical equation: demand management. Demand management is the process for capturing and governing requests and…

The Strategic Cost of Ineffective Demand Management and Prioritization

When everything is labeled “high priority,” nothing truly is. This paradox stems from unbridled project intake and unclear prioritization— two critical challenges facing strategic leaders today. When the project spigot is wide open, transformational initiatives stall unexpectedly, resources scatter across countless efforts with minimal impact, and teams perpetually fight fires instead of building the future….

Planning Around Corners: How AI Reveals What’s Coming Next

Sometimes, running an enterprise feels a bit like trying to build a house during an earthquake. One day, you’re dealing with disruptive technology and changing customer needs, next, it’s budget pressures and fears of a recession looming. Just when you think you’ve got your footing, government policy changes abruptly and forces you to rethink everything….

25 AI Prompts to Supercharge Your Product Management with Planview

New research from McKinsey indicates that workflow redesign has the strongest impact on achieving measurable financial returns from generative AI – more than any other factor studied. At the core of this workflow redesign is the effective use of AI prompts. In this article, we’ll show you exactly how to create effective AI prompts for product management and provide 25 ready-to-use examples for using Planview Copilot in your daily work.

Is Your Organization Drowning in Strategic Chaos?

When an organization reaches the tipping point where innovation begins to stagnate under the weight of maintaining existing operations, it’s time for a new approach to value delivery. When priorities conflict and visibility is limited, even the most promising strategic vision remains unrealized. Instead, you’re left with wasted resources, missed market opportunities, and the erosion…

Driving the Future of IAM: Strategic Insights on Microsoft Entra ID

1. Introduction: A Shift in Identity and Access Management The demands on Identity and Access Management (IAM) continue to surge as enterprises expand into multi-cloud and hybrid environments. Microsoft Entra emerges as a direct response to this complexity, building on Azure AD’s foundation while integrating new capabilities that optimise security, privacy, and user experience. By […]

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An Approach to Kick-start, Implement, and Grow Capability-based Planning

Summary of our blog series on Capability-based Planning Our ongoing blog series on capability-based planning has covered a lot of ground. We started by explaining the basic concepts and the value of capabilities, addressed the design of capability maps, how to relate capabilities with your strategy and operating model, explored capability assessment and roadmapping, discussed…

Close the Loop: Measure the Effectiveness of Change Investments using Capability-Based Planning

The previous article in this blog series covered how a Capability-Based Planning approach informs the Strategic Roadmap. We covered the Plan and Assess phases of Capability-Based Planning. In this blog, we’ll link the Plan and Assess phases to the Control phase of this process. To measure the effectiveness of change investments, you need a way…

Directing Strategic Change With Capability-Based Planning

A topic attracting increasing attention from architects and executives alike is: How to use Capabilities to inform strategic planning. The previous blog articles in our series on Business Capability Design and Management focused on “How to assess Business Capabilities” and “How to Measure Business Capability Aspects”. These articles describe the overall four-stage Capability-based planning process…