by Mark DiGirolamo | May 7, 2025 | Food For Thought, How-to
Smoothing the path to lasting business transformation and ROI The strategy-execution gap is the discrepancy between an enterprise’s big goals and the actual actions and results it achieves day in and day out. This often debilitating gap comes into focus when...
by Mark DiGirolamo | Nov 16, 2023 | Food For Thought, Frameworks, How-to
As many companies attempt to accelerate growth programs, seize market opportunities or re-organize to align to new strategies, they’ve been hindered by the inherent limitations of PPM solutions. These challenges have resulted in the recent emergence of the Enterprise...
by Mark DiGirolamo | May 31, 2022 | Featured, Food For Thought, Strategic Portfolio Management
In today’s digitally charged business ecosystem, almost every organization has abundant ideas, innovations, and projects. Of course, those ideas can’t execute themselves — nor can they create value if they’re piling up without anyone taking the initiative actually to...
by Mark DiGirolamo | Aug 19, 2021 | Food For Thought, Strategic Portfolio Management
The Emergence of Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM) 2021 was a watershed year for the Project & Portfolio Management (PPM) market with the bifurcation of the PPM category into Strategic Portfolio Management and Adaptive Project Management. At its core,... by Mark DiGirolamo | Jan 14, 2021 | Food For Thought, Product Release, Strategy Execution
Since our inception, Shibumi has been obsessed with enabling companies to define their strategic direction and help them to better manage the journey to get there. We refer to this process as business execution. Business execution is comprised of three simple but...
by Mark DiGirolamo | Apr 26, 2020 | Food For Thought, How-to, Strategy Execution
Cost optimization is a continual effort that aligns the need for cost reduction with the broader goal of maximizing business value. The additional pressures created by worldwide economic difficulties only increase the value of cost optimization. As an example,...