by Mark DiGirolamo | May 31, 2022 | Featured, Food For Thought, Strategic Portfolio Management
In today’s digitally charged business ecosystem, almost every organization has an abundance of ideas, innovations and projects. Of course, those ideas can’t execute themselves — nor can they create value if they’re piling up without anyone...
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,...
by Mark DiGirolamo | Feb 13, 2020 | Food For Thought, Goal Setting, How-to
Business transformation in 2020 is inextricably linked to our modern appetite for information. Consumers crave transparency and in response, businesses are deploying innovations to facilitate access to information. Those that fail to keep up may be consigned to the...
by Mark DiGirolamo | Jan 29, 2020 | Food For Thought
The goal of every merger or acquisition is to grow company profits and and cut costs with a strategically aligned entity. For many mergers and acquisitions, however, those goals are lost in the Post Merger Integration process. In a survey commissioned by the Merrill...