Unleash innovation with people-centric planning
What is People-Centric Planning?
Empower your teams and drive growth with people-centric planning.
People-centric planning lets your organisation shift from funding work to funding people.
Instead of shipping a new product or service and calling it done, a people-centric approach paves the way for continuous development and improvement, so you can respond faster to market changes and new technologies than your competitors.
The result? Your teams have access to the right data, your teams are aligned to a common strategy and goal, and efficiency is optimised as wasted work and conversations are eliminated.
Are wasted resources and missed opportunities frustrating your stakeholders?
In today’s hyper-competitive landscape, innovation is not just a luxury—it’s a necessity. Yet, traditional project management approaches are holding organisations back, stifling creativity and hampering progress.
According to Gartner, 70% of digital investments will fail to deliver the expected business outcomes due to the absence of a strategic portfolio management approach.
Despite advancements in technology and methodologies, many organisations still experience the adverse effects of siloed teams, conflicting priorities and outdated planning processes.
A modern approach to strategic portfolio management, the people-centric approach gives people who manage projects more autonomy. It also prioritises connection and collaboration across your organisation.
Benefits of a People-Centric Approach in Strategic Project Management.
1. Improved project relevance:
Prioritising stakeholder input leads to projects that are more relevant and impactful. By aligning projects and tasks to value streams, you can ensure that all work contributes to the end goals and deliverables that matter for your business.
2. Enhanced stakeholder trust:
Engaging stakeholders fosters trust and strengthens relationships, leading to more collaborative environments. People-Centric Planning establishes improved visibility and insights, empowering people to make better, more informed decisions and enhance trust between your business and IT departments.
3. Increased innovation:
Diverse perspectives can drive innovation in project development and problem-solving. People-Centric Planning enables enhanced creativity, collaboration, and experimentation among your team, which helps drive the next innovative breakthrough in the way you work together or the products you deliver.
4. Better resource allocation:
Understanding team priorities allows for more informed and effective resource allocation across the portfolio.
By organising around value streams, products, and people, you can avoid the annual innovation hurdle. Instead of having committees review and sign off on new funding every year, you can continuously fund a value stream.
The benefits of funding in this way ensure that products can benefit from continuous development that aligns with your business goals. You pave the way for less stagnation, as funding is no longer assigned on a project-by-project basis.
5. Sustainable outcomes
Move away from managing projects and start managing products with value-driven outcomes. Aligning projects with your resources needs to contribute to long-term positive outcomes and resilience. Rather than organising teams around siloed departments, you can organise and assign human resources to product value streams.
Instead of focusing on work and specific, granular requirements, the people-centric approach gives people the key metrics they need and offers autonomy to determine the best way to achieve those metrics.
How we can help
As integration specialists for a range of market-leading, people-centric planning solutions, we can help you find the right software for your business maturity level. Get in touch with the team at Ignite, and we can discuss your requirements and book you onto a demo with one of our software experts.
Reduce your time to implementation.
We can also reduce your time to implementation. Instead of spending hours of time and using internal resources, we can get you set up and fully integrated, potentially within weeks.
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Get advanced notice of new features through your dedicated point of contact at Ignite. This saves resources as we do the research on how to enhance your processes further. Having notice before the features go to market will also give your projects a competitive edge.
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To help you get the most from your People-Centric Planning, or to adapt to new changes and scale up your solutions, we’re here to ensure the solutions you have are the ideal match for your business maturity level, goals, and the way you work.
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People-Centric Strategic Portfolio Management – eBook
In the evolving realm of technology funding and planning, a fundamental shift is underway. It’s time to move beyond funding individual projects to investing in value-delivering teams—a concept known as people-centric planning.
Discover why it’s crucial, explore three key steps for success and find guidance on where to begin this transformative journey.
Frequently Asked Questions
It’s important for leaders to buy into the transformation to a people-centric approach; otherwise, teams may lack motivation, and the change may stagnate. Insufficient resources or budget may also become a challenge when implementing a people-centric approach. If you have any hesitancies about implementing this new approach, let our team show how the right software can help your organisation adapt efficiently.
A people-centric approach is a modernised evolution of traditional portfolio management. Integrating a people-centric approach requires a complete organisation transformation.
Traditional portfolio management often relies on rigid structures, extensive documentation, and top-down decision-making processes. This can lead to inefficiencies, as it may not adequately respond to the fast-paced changes in today’s business environment. Traditional portfolio management is characterised by hierarchical decision-making and outputs over outcomes, whereas a people-centric approach is driven more by the value of the deliverables and permits teams to have more agency as long as work is aligned with the value streams.
People-centric planning connects business and IT staff through value streams that establish shared goals. How does this manifest into an actionable management approach? The trick is to strike the right balance between business and technical priorities or challenges. Establishing percentages of work can help strike a balance.
As a real-life example, Tyson, a leading processor of chicken, beef and pork in the US, leveraged value streams to create a portfolio-based management approach. They created a Technology Council with leaders from every business area, which improved communication and reduced silos. Through the software, they were able to ensure that all work contributed to the OKRs and KPIs. All work completed by people could be assigned to a value stream, with easy-to-track data on how that contributed to the overall business goals.
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Get in touch with the team at Ignite. As integration specialists for a range of market-leading people-centric planning solutions, we can help you find the right software for your business maturity level.
We can also reduce your time to implementation. Instead of spending hours of time and using internal resources, we can get you set up and fully integrated, potentially within weeks.
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