What Is Business Process Outsourcing? A Guide
As businesses scale and grow, they often have requirements that cannot be addressed internally — whether because of resource or budgetary constraints. Business process outsourcing (BPO) can be a solution that enables organizations to grow and scale effectively. But exactly what is business process outsourcing? What are the risks associated with the practice, and how can corporate
How 5 PM Experts Create a Fail-Safe Project Management Plan
Poor planning can doom your project before work even begins. Changing expectations, shrinking budgets, and frustrating miscommunications can derail even the simplest project—and make life stressful for everyone involved. A thorough project plan can prevent scope creep, overblown budgets, and missed goals. But actually sitting down and planning a project can be an overwhelming task. How
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3 Disastrous Marketing Horror Stories to Avoid
Marketing teams battle chaotic workflows, long review & approval processes, and poor cross-team communication, not to mention changing priorities and ever-growing workloads. Read our cautionary tales of killer marketing catastrophes, and learn how to avoid them yourself. Chapter 1: Bad process purgatory Vague requests, muddled processes, and confusing priorities kill Kate’s genius marketing campaign stone dead. Everything’s
5 Project Management Ideas that Should be Extinct
Project management has a wide spectrum of effective approaches. Everything from hands-off supervision to management by walking around... And then there are the ideas that should go the way of the dinosaur — disappear in a ball of flames. This is just a list of the top 5 PM ideas that should be extinct. And if they
Why Your Creative Team Isn’t Using Your Project Management Software
Getting everyone on board is crucial to project management platform success. Here are five reasons your creative team isn’t using your creative project management software, and what you can do to increase adoption.
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Top 5 Product Design Blogs to Follow
When you talk about product design, you're talking about the numerous processes involved in creating a product — whether physical or digital. It must have functionality that answers a target market's specific needs, and it must have an aesthetically pleasing form. It's a formula that Apple has used with much success. But where does one find
Why Your Project Timeline Is Inaccurate (and How to Fix It)
Sticking to your project timeline is easy if everything goes according to plan. But when’s the last time that happened? Let’s cover some common mistakes that project managers make when scheduling their project plan timelines and how you can fix them.
Wrike Is a Semi-finalist of the Enterprise 2.0 Launch Pad
Thank you to everyone who appreciated Wrike’s video pitch and voted for it at the Enterprise 2.0 Launch Pad site. The voting on the first round has ended, and Wrike is among the 8 semi-finalists. That is very exciting news for us. The second round of voting starts on May 19, so we are now preparing
Use the Timer to Create Benchmarks
“What does that play button do?” “It starts our integrated timer, so you can track how much time you spend on tasks.” “Oh, well we don’t bill for our time, so we won’t use that feature.” I have this conversation all too often, and it’s undermining the real value that time tracking provides in any project: actionable data. When a
Summer Vacation Is Dying, Here’s How to Save It
Wrike launched a Summer Productivity Survey to better understand how Americans balance the need for vacation with their work obligations. Let’s dig into our most interesting survey findings, which compare vacation trends among men and women, Millennials and Baby Boomers, and much more.
Are Marketers Allergic to Project Management?
Not everyone on your team has to be a certified PMP to reap the benefits of project management for marketing. Even an understanding of just a few basic project management principles and processes can help your team be better organized, more efficient, and enjoy improved results. In short, basic project management means you can achieve
The Future of PMOs: Understanding the Challenges
The Project Management Office, or PMO, remains an increasingly essential part of a successful organization. And as new technology emerges and companies seek greater innovation, PMOs must evolve to remain relevant and valuable. So what is a PMO, and how do they add value to your organization?
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