Paul Jacobs

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…

In our previous blogs, we explored how broken intake processes create strategic chaos and how adding structure to demand management can move an organization from fire drills to aligned opportunities. Today, we tackle the second half of the equation: turning captured demand into focused action through intelligent prioritization. You’ve filtered out all the pet projects…

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…

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….