By Christopher Yahnke, Director of Creative Solutions at Northwestern Mutual
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A couple of years ago, we realized we needed a better system to manage work in the creative solutions department at Northwestern Mutual. We had 11 full-time employees and a half-dozen freelancers (plus creative
By Steve Smith, Senior Business Consultant at Workfront
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I may be one of very few software consultants whose resume includes a stint as an ICU chaplain.
While these two roles are opposites in almost every way, there is one important similarity. Both roles have allowed me to see behind the
By Stephen Gentry, Chief Security Officer at Workfront
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The cost of the average data breach to a U.S. company is nearly $8 million.
That’s a substantial sum. It also represents a breach of trust for customers and partners, a loss of market credibility, and compromised individual privacy.
How
By Monique Evans, Workfront System Analyst for the Global Customer Experience Group of Stanley Black & Decker
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No matter where you are in your journey toward digital transformation, there’s always a way to improve and be better connected. Here’s our story of how we did just that at Stanley
By Sophy Regelous, Managing Director at Cella Consulting
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Since the founding of Cella Consulting in 2009, our firm has been promoting the adoption of work management tools in the workplace to maximize efficiencies and control the flow of projects. Around that time, according to an In-House
Chances are that no matter where you work, you’ve experienced the hurdles that come with collaborating across various teams and departments. Each department uses different processes, protocols, and software systems to accomplish their work—and these disparate solutions and approaches don’t always
By Michael Swan, Product Manager at Workfront
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Digital transformation — the shift from analog information and manual processes to agile, data-driven business processes for efficiency and innovation — has revolutionized businesses in nearly every industry. There’s no question that digital
Recently, Harvard Business Review (HBR) published an in-depth article on the revolution of performance management. We’ve summed up some of the most important insights on how performance management is changing, what you can do to stay ahead, and what it means for using a goal setting framework like
By Matthew Broschinsky, Transformation Advisor at Workfront
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Driving change within an organization is no easy feat, as I know from spending years consulting hands-on with various companies on expansion strategies, software adoption challenges, process optimization, governance, and more. Now I
Many words and phrases are used interchangeably in the business world, but at a certain point, we must refer back to their true definitions to get clarity about what’s really being said. Even at Workfront we occasionally use “goal” and “objective” interchangeably to avoid being overly pedantic. In
By Kayla Lamoreaux, Lead, Principal Enterprise Solution Architect at Workfront
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“Disruption is not just about technology changing; it is about changing the logic of a business.” — Stanford Professor William Barnett
Modern work innovation comes in two forms: sustaining
By Jake Wells, Senior Value Engineer at Workfront
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You may have heard the oft-repeated statistic that 70% of change initiatives fail. While it is disputed by some, I think we can all attest that it’s a risky proposition to manage any widespread change in an organization, especially when it
