Project Portfolio Management Outlook for 2016
Each year we review and reflect on some of the industry-specific project portfolio management trends of the past year and consider trends for the coming year that might have an impact on the business. Here are our six predictions heading into 2016:
1. If you’re not managing your applications, they’re managing you. Applications are powering business. Application ecosystems are everywhere, and steadily increasing. Paradoxically, the continued reliance on applications isn’t being managed or tracked proportionally to the level of importance they deserve. Applications are changing the way businesses operate and optimize, yet in so many firms, they are being tracked on spreadsheets. This is the age of application software, or as I call “the post PC era,” where nobody cares about the operating system or hardware. The consumerization of IT will continue.
We don’t discount the importance of application maintenance and repair, and this includes application configurations and customizations that make business process incrementally better for all your team members. This takes time, both in development and training, but worth the investment.
2. Anything that can be automated will be. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Predictive analytics changes the game. Predictive analytics is gaining popularity in sales, marketing,
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