ESI Viewpoints bring you thought-provoking perspectives on a broad range of topics affecting project, contract, employee and business performance. Each paper shares ESI’s expert insights into a specific industry issue, topic or trend and offers best practices, innovative approaches or recommended solutions.
Top 10 Project Management Trends for 2012
Top 10 Business Analysis Trends for 2012
Hot Topics:
“What’s Old is New Again”…Project Management after 30 years
Wondering how project management has changed over the last three decades?
2011 ESI Learning Trends Report
How do leaders responsible for learning programs adjust and adapt their human capital initiatives? What best practices and learning strategies can you adapt to your organization?
Teaching PM Skills to Non-PMs May Be Your Smartest Move Yet
Learn how implementing project management across the organization could revolutionize the way different departments collaborate, improve performance and increase your competitive advantage.
Maximizing Your Leadership Training Investment
How do you get your leadership training to produce the results you want? Download ESI's paper to learn about the leadership competencies needed to create better, stronger leaders.
Agile in Government: Can Agencies Make It Work?
The shift to Agile project management is becoming less optional and more mandatory. Can agencies institute the significant changes necessary to move to Agile?
Organizational Improvement:
Agile Project Management Metrics
Is agile project management right for you? How can you measure progress? Download ESI's paper to learn what it takes to make agile project management a success in your organization.
Give Your Employees the Learning Options They Demand
Every moment in a learning experience has to count and offering multiple-modality delivery options is essential to high-impact learning. What are ways you can ensure you're getting the most out of your learning investment?
Think of Risk Management as a Competitive Advantage
A recent ESI global survey reveals that less than half of organizations adhere to best practices for risk management. Download this ESI Viewpoint and find out how how risk management can give organizations a competitive edge.
It's cheaper, your staff wants it and most importantly, it works. So why aren't you taking your learning program virtual?
Virtual learning experiences offer many advantages in today's learning environment. Download this ESI Viewpoint to see how virtual learning can offer the same advantages of a traditional classroom experience.
Will your organization get an "A" for Learning, but an "F" for value of investment?
Download this ESI Viewpoint and learn five ways to ensure your learning program is a success.
Requirements Management Development/Business Analysis:
Why Modeling Works—and Your Solutions Development Process Could Fail Without It
Modeling is a proven, powerful tool helping to enable collaboration, identify issues and assure solution buy-in. Read this ESI Viewpoint to learn how to avoid prolonged inefficiencies, duplicated efforts and squandered financial opportunities.
Building a Better Business Case
Are your business cases more than just financial documents? If your business cases focus solely on ROI, your organization could be funding all the wrong projects. Read this ESI Viewpoint to learn the "3 essential tips" for building a better business case.
A Surprising Change Leader: Your Business Analyst
Discover the unique skills your BA has that make them ideal change leaders in the organization.
Get to the Core of Vendor Management Problems with Better Requirements
Are you struggling with vendor management issues on your outsourced projects? This ESI Viewpoint shows how better requirements management can improve your vendor relationship.
Government Edition:
The Most Effective, Least Expensive Way to Protect Your Training Investment
Few practitioners will argue that performance improvement linked to training is the yardstick of a training investment’s success. Without learning adoption, the learning experience—no matter how engaging—is a waste of an organization’s resources.
Information Assurance is Mission Assurance
Experts agree that cyber-attacks are not only imminent but likely to escalate. A recent study shows that all organizations are vulnerable to breaches, attacks and malware, and will need to spend more on their protection. Buying the latest tool or technology will only work if people and processes are ready for them.
Agile in Government: Can Agencies Make It Work?
The shift to Agile project management is becoming less optional and more mandatory. Can agencies institute the significant changes necessary to move to Agile?
Requirements Management and IT Management Reform
For programs, projects and acquisitions to deliver the desired outcomes, a dedicated BA must be assigned to an integrated program team (IPT) to carry out the RMD responsibilities.
Acquisition Reform: It's More Than the Contract
How can you ensure that your government program will run on budget, deliver on time and meet expectations in this new environment? This ESI VIewpoint looks at the call for acquisition reform and how to start with the integration of three critical points: people, processes and tools.
The Acquisition Workforce: Certified or Qualified?
Across government agencies, strategic human capital plans for the acquisition work force highlight strategies to increase headcount and certification. Will these strategies improve the federal acquisition process, performance and results?
Transparency Requires More Than Oversight
Calls for transparency will result in more scrutiny. Agencies will be asked: “Why did you let the project go on so long? What did you do to fix the problem?” This article argues that an integrated approach to governance will not only improve agencies’ oversight capabilities but also enable them to develop the insight and foresight to make the tough decisions that will improve their programs’ outcomes.