Finding Balance on Unsteady Ground: Insights from Planview’s 2025 State of Strategy Execution Benchmark Report

In 2021, Planview published a benchmark report examining organizations’ strategy execution capabilities during periods of business disruption and uncertainty. The pandemic served as a powerful example of how organizations could move faster than previously imagined under pressure—but it also revealed that approaches designed for crisis management might not sustain long-term competitive advantage. Over the past...

How AI Steers Engineering Leaders Through Delivery Weather

Engineering is a discipline built on precision, planning, and control. But anyone who has ever led a software delivery organization knows that even the most carefully laid roadmap can unravel the moment conditions shift. Week to week, leaders balance capacity, dependencies, incidents, and shifting business priorities, all while navigating an environment that changes faster than...

AI at Planview: Building, Learning, and Innovating Together

At Planview, we are all in on AI. We’re building agents, piloting or scaling AI-powered tools across various disciplines, and continuously improving our individual skills. The momentum we’ve built this year is ready to launch us into 2026, more AI-savvy than ever. But before we do, let’s take a look at a few of the...

Paving the Way: AI Is the Advantage Strategy Leaders Use

Strategy execution has never been harder. Markets shift overnight, priorities change in weeks, and opportunities vanish if you can’t move fast. Speed and flexibility feel less like differentiators and more like survival skills. If complex approvals, disconnected tools, and reactive reporting are still slowing you down, you’re not just behind schedule anymore. You’re at risk...

Connected Work and Digital Personas: A Deep Dive into Enterprise AI’s Next Phase

Since ChatGPT’s debut three years ago, generative AI has evolved from niche experimentation to near-universal enterprise adoption. Consider the latest data from McKinsey. Their November State of AI Report states that 88% of organizations now report regular AI use in at least one business function. That’s up from 78% a year ago, signaling a significant...

Why Technology Leaders Keep Missing Targets—and How to Stop It

Many technology leaders don’t miss targets because of weak teams—they miss them because of fragmented systems and unclear insights. This blog explores how connecting data, tools, and strategy transforms unpredictability into confident, repeatable delivery.

How Product Leaders Can Stop Firefighting Every Day and Reclaim Time

It’s 8:15am on Monday morning.  Erin, a VP of Product at a fast-growing SaaS company, hasn’t even finished her coffee when the alarms start going off.  Slack pings from engineering. A spreadsheet update is needed from finance. Sales asks a last-minute question about the roadmap. And of course—the CEO forwards a competitor’s new feature announcement with a one-line message: “When can...

From Dough to Delivery: What Baking Cookies Teaches Us About Flow Metrics

If you lead technology or product development, you already know this: competition is relentless, customer expectations are rising, and operational efficiency has never been more vital. Whether you’re delivering digital platforms or producing something as tangible as cookies, success depends on how well your organization can translate demand into value at speed and scale. Yet,...