Wrike

JUNE 27, 2023

With efficient business management process software, companies can optimize their workflows, enhance productivity, and drive growth. Understanding the importance of streamlining operations is crucial for business owners and managers looking to stay competitive in the market.

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

In today’s fast-paced business world, efficiency is more important than ever. This is where Business Process Management (BPM) comes into play. BPM is a systematic approach that enables companies to analyze, design, implement, and continuously improve their business processes.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 11, 2024

It acts as a waystation, a part of the larger manufacturing and fulfillment processes. The better the warehouse management, the greater the company’s success. After defining warehouse management and its importance, we’ll focus on its key areas and what the operation life cycle looks like. What Is Warehouse Management?

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Inloox

DECEMBER 6, 2021

In 2020 the top positions were dominated by posts on working from home and knowledge management. Let’s take a look at your favorite blog posts in 2021: #1 – Why People Are the Most Important Resource in the Company There are many types of resources in an organization but no resource is as important as the people working in the company.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 18, 2024

When managing teams, it’s essential to create timelines to track their progress as they execute their tasks. Project management software is the most efficient way to create timelines to plan, assign and track their tasks. More powerful than Google Sheets is project management software.

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Wrike

JUNE 11, 2023

Organizations are constantly looking for ways to streamline their processes, increase efficiency, and ultimately drive growth, and one approach that has gained significant traction in recent years is business process automation (BPA). The Evolution of Business Process Automation Business process automation is not a new concept.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Information technology (IT) involves the use of computers, digital storage, networking and other physical devices, infrastructure and processes to create, process, store, secure and exchange electronic data. IT service management (ITSM) is the process of how those services meet the needs of the end users who employ them.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 9, 2024

A kanban board is a project management tool that manages workflows and processes using two key elements: kanban cards, which represent tasks, and kanban columns which divide the kanban board vertically to represent steps or stages of completion for them. Get started with ProjectManager today for free.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 10, 2024

But the only reason it feels effortless is because of order management. We’ll explain what order management is and explore how an order management process is conducted. There are, of course, people behind the order management process. What Is Order Management? Then there are customer expectations.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 19, 2024

Kanban and scrum are agile project management methodologies that can be used for similar purposes, but each has its unique pros and cons. As a project manager, it’s important to understand the difference between kanban and scrum so you can determine the best approach for your team. What Is Kanban?

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 17, 2024

One of those business documents is a sales order. To better understand what a sales order is, we’ll define the term, list what should be included and outline the sales order process. A sales order is a document the seller creates for internal use in processing a customer order. What Is a Sales Order? We’ll get to that next.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 2, 2024

This concept is an important part of project portfolio management (PPM) and project management offices (PMOs). This can apply to a business or a project team. To achieve the strategic goals of a business, tactical plans include focused goals, steps to reach these goals and a timeline in which to achieve them.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Once the strategic plan is clear across the entire organization, project management software will help plan, manage and track those projects to successful completion. ProjectManager is award-winning project and portfolio management software that helps you create timelines and budgets for your organization’s projects and processes.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 19, 2024

Managers want to stay on budget and resources cost money, which is why they use a request for quote (RFQ) to get pricing from suppliers and contractors. This process is especially important to companies that need a constant supply of a standard product, such as manufacturers. Projects need resources, often consistently.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Microsoft Power BI is a data analysis software that allows you to use various tools such as spreadsheets, pie charts, stacked bars and other types of diagrams to visualize project or business data, including the Power BI Gantt chart. But is Power BI good for project management? Does Power BI Have a Gantt Chart?

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Managing a program or portfolio of projects involves many things, but utmost importance should be given to resource management, especially organizational resources. To start, resources can include labor, management, expertise, equipment, finances, energy, land and time. What Are Organizational Resources?

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 31, 2024

Coming up with long-term goals for a business or organization is just the beginning of a five-year project. Making sure your daily operations are working towards achieving those strategic goals and that they’re clearly communicated throughout the business or organization greatly improves by using a balanced scorecard.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 24, 2024

While order processing seems to work fast and without issue, a lot is going on in the background to ensure the seamless management of placement, picking, sorting, packing and shipping. That’s only an overview of order processing and there’s a lot more to it, which we’ll get to in greater detail. What Is Order Processing?

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 19, 2022

Every tool that helps define the project and make it more manageable is valuable. A workflow diagram is a type of flowchart that displays every task in a project or business process, including dependent tasks. This lets you define the work, as well as standardize and identify key decision points in the process.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 6, 2024

Tableau is an analytics platform that allows organizations to visualize their data on powerful yet user-friendly data analysis charts and diagrams powered by machine learning, natural language processing and predictive analytics. While Tableau doesn’t have project management features, you can still use it to make a Gantt chart.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 3, 2024

Products go through many processes before they reach a customer. What is order fulfillment and how does it differ from order processing and order management? We’ll explain that, the order fulfillment process and list the different types of order fulfillment models. That’s called order fulfillment.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 23, 2024

They don’t directly deliver new products or services to customers, but improve the way an organization does business and that impacts customers. This is called operational project management. Operational projects are those that are employed to improve the current operations at a business or organization.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 5, 2024

A maintenance schedule is the process by which maintenance departments plan, organize and coordinate the activities involved in equipment maintenance to make sure that everything is working properly. Project management software can help organizations keep to their maintenance schedule. What Is a Maintenance Schedule?

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 25, 2024

The kanban tool has become commonplace in project management and its uses continue to expand. For those unsure what kanban is, we’ll first explain the kanban system and then go into kanban history from its development to its uses in manufacturing, project management and software development.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Gantt charts are powerful planning tools in project management, but they’re also notoriously difficult to make. If you need more than a simple Gantt chart, try ProjectManager , an award-winning project and portfolio management software with powerful Gantt charts that do more without the difficulty of other digital Gantt charts.

Software Review 343

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Inloox

DECEMBER 11, 2018

There was a lot going on at InLoox in 2018, which is also reflected on the InLoox blog. 9: Pulse of the Profession 2018: Success in Disruptive Times by Managing Projects Effectively Disruptive trends like artificial intelligence or big data impact project management substantially. The goal is: faster, better, stronger.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

For a professional Project Manager transitioning to a Scrum Master, the shift to a value-centric approach is both fundamental and transformative. The project management principle "Focus on value" aligns perfectly with Scrum’s core tenet of delivering value through iterative and incremental development.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 9, 2023

The highly anticipated shortlist for The Business Book Awards in partnership with Pathway Group 2023 has been announced for top business books published in 2022. Project management processes don’t scale up to allow us to streamline and work smarter,” Elizabeth adds. To find out more, visit [link].

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 12, 2024

Then we’ll help you with the workforce planning process and explain the benefits of using workforce planning in your projects. Finally, we’ll see how project management software allows you to better manage your workforce. Workforce planning also involves the process of forecasting the gap between capacity and demand.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 7, 2024

We’ll first define the term and then go into the organizational strategy levels, as well as explain its importance in business. It involves how the company will allocate its resources to support business activities that lead to achieving those long-term goals. Organizational strategy has many layers. What Is Organizational Strategy?

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 8, 2024

We’ll also note the difference between an RFI in construction and other construction project management documents before going into the construction RFI process, the different types of RFIs and more. Get your free RFI Template Use this free RFI Template for Word to manage your projects better. What Is an RFI in Construction?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 7, 2023

Project managers are often faced with the challenge of managing complex projects and ensuring that they stay on track. One key tool to success is understanding how to use organizational process assets effectively. But what is an organizational process asset (OPA)? What are Organizational Process Assets?

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LiquidPlanner

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Whether you’re making the move to Agile project management in your development group or creating an Agile process for your in-house project management methodology, chances are you’re going to have to sell this change to executives in your organization. And, they’re going to be business people too.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 1, 2024

In my professional career I have been project manager for many years in different types of environments and for different types of projects. In my quest for being at my best to serve, I have gone through accreditation processes to become a professional trainer in many of these. Don't want to miss any of these blog posts?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

I bet you have plenty of project management processes, don’t you? The bottom line is this: having processes doesn’t guarantee that your project will be any better than if you didn’t have them. But I’m a big believer in making sure everything is fit for purpose and processes are included in that. Do you follow them?

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

IT financial management (ITFM) covers the costs of keeping our network, servers and devices running. IT financial management is a bit more complicated than that and we’ll explain by more thoroughly defining the term. Then we’ll list the professionals who are tasked with IT financial management and their key objectives.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Many organizations are looking for ways to digitally enable their businesses – often through new technologies – in order to improve performance or gain a competitive advantage. In this blog post, we will discuss five key strategies for digital transformation projects. Define your business core values 2. Let’s get started!

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