Navigate Uncertainty with Confidence

Optimize IT investment impact when every dollar counts

As an IT leader in today’s unpredictable economy, you’re facing critical challenges that threaten both immediate results and long-term growth. Planview helps you take these challenges and turn them into opportunities.


“We can measure our financial risk, our financial returns, and understand why we’re investing in things. We can make trade-offs among and across our portfolios to optimize and get the best, most efficient use of our capital. Planview is the place where we can all go and agree that these are the only numbers that we are talking about.”

—Teresa Prevoe

Biträdande vice ordförande för EPMO

Canadian Tire

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Discover how Planview’s strategic portfolio management solution empowers you to use market volatility as a competitive advantage. Don’t just survive uncertainty — thrive through it.

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6 challenges you face today and how Planview solves them

1

Navigating IT budget cuts while demand grows

Your challenges:
  • Facing IT budget cuts while business demands for technology continue to increase
  • Struggling to identify which areas can absorb cuts without compromising critical services
  • Lacking visibility into total cost of ownership across your IT portfolio
  • Unable to clearly articulate IT spending in terms of business value
  • Missing data to support difficult allocation decisions during financial constraints
  • Challenged to do more with less while maintaining operational stability
Planview delivers:
  • Comprehensive IT portfolio visibility to identify areas for cost optimization
  • Data-driven budget allocation decisions based on business value and strategic alignment
  • Cost transparency across applications, projects, and infrastructure
  • Spend analysis tools to identify areas of redundancy or inefficiency
  • Scenario planning to evaluate different budget allocation strategies
  • Defensible IT budget justifications with clear business outcome linkages
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Planview Strategic Portfolio Management Software

See how Planview enables IT leaders to navigate budget cuts and growing demand by quickly shifting strategies, priorities, funding, and resources to the most strategic initiatives.

2

Delivering more with reduced IT staffing

Your challenges:
  • Managing growing workloads with reduced IT teams after layoffs or hiring freezes
  • Lacking visibility into actual capacity versus demand across teams
  • Unable to predict resource bottlenecks before they impact delivery schedules
  • Difficulty matching specialized skills to critical initiatives
  • Struggling to balance operational maintenance and strategic project work
  • Reactive rather than proactive resource allocation causing delivery delays
Planview delivers:
  • Real-time visibility into IT resource capacity, utilization, and demand across all work
  • Skills-based resource allocation to maximize productivity of specialized talent
  • Predictive capacity planning to forecast resource shortfalls before they impact delivery
  • Automated bottleneck identification across IT delivery workflows
  • What-if resource modeling to optimize team structure and assignment
  • Identification of opportunities to shift resources from maintenance to strategic initiatives
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Läs mer om hur Planview hjälper Accenture att frigöra kapacitet och förbättra kundnöjdheten.

3

Responding to rapid market changes with static planning

Your challenges:
  • Rapid market changes requiring constant plan adjustments
  • Difficulty pivoting strategies quickly when economic conditions shift
  • Traditional annual planning cycles too rigid for current volatility
  • Inability to assess impact of plan changes across the entire portfolio
  • Struggling to maintain strategic direction amid frequent tactical changes
  • Plans becoming obsolete before they can be fully implemented
Planview delivers:
  • Dynamic roadmapping that adapts to changing business conditions
  • Agile portfolio management frameworks that embrace uncertainty
  • Continuous planning approaches that replace rigid annual cycles
  • Impact analysis for proposed changes across interconnected initiatives
  • Strategic guardrails that maintain direction despite tactical adjustments
  • Real-time visibility into execution to enable faster course correction
EBOOK

Dynamic Planning: 5 Steps to Rapidly Replan, Reprioritize, and Execute

Static plans lead to a static business. Explore how your organization can pivot quickly and adapt in times of economic uncertainty.

4

Managing growing technical debt with limited resources

Your challenges:
  • Technical debt accumulation and growing maintenance costs consuming limited budgets
  • Pressure to maintain expanding application portfolios with reduced resources
  • Unclear view of which applications deliver value versus drain resources
  • Difficulty identifying redundant applications across business units
  • Lacking objective criteria to make application retirement decisions
  • Unable to create clear modernization roadmaps in resource-constrained environments
  • Postponing necessary updates and maintenance due to financial constraints
Planview delivers:
  • Application portfolio assessment capabilities to evaluate business value vs. technical health
  • Visualization of application redundancies, dependencies, and retirement opportunities
  • Objective scoring of applications based on business criticality, technical debt, and cost
  • Automated identification of consolidation candidates across the application landscape
  • Application lifecycle planning with clear retirement and modernization roadmaps
  • Data-driven decisions about which applications to invest in, maintain, or sunset
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Planview Enterprise Architecture Capabilities

See how Planview empowers IT organizations to connect technologies with business context and visualize technology redundancies, dependencies, and business value.

5

Making critical portfolio decisions without complete information

Your challenges:
  • Struggling to determine which IT initiatives to continue, pause, or cancel
  • Making prioritization decisions based on politics rather than objective value
  • Unable to clearly connect IT investments to specific business outcomes
  • Lacking consistent evaluation criteria across competing initiatives
  • Difficulty balancing immediate needs against long-term strategic value
  • Challenged to justify IT investment decisions to executive leadership
Planview delivers:
  • Objective scoring frameworks to evaluate IT initiatives against business objectives
  • Portfolio balancing tools to optimize across run, grow, and transform investments
  • Transparent demand management with clear business case evaluation criteria
  • Automated prioritization based on configurable strategic value parameters
  • Relevant data to support executives making difficult IT investment decisions
  • Clear alignment between IT initiatives and business outcomes
EBOOK

Best Practices for Aligning Strategy, Funding, and Execution with Strategic Portfolio Management

Discover how to use SPM to make faster, more confident strategic decisions that turn your best ideas into measurable outcomes.

6

Balancing innovation and operational stability under constraints

Your challenges:
  • Pressure to maintain operational stability while still enabling innovation
  • Innovation initiatives are first on the chopping block during budget constraints
  • Difficulty quantifying innovation value against operational necessities
  • Unable to identify capacity for innovation within existing resource constraints
  • Lacking frameworks to evaluate innovation investments against risk
  • Struggling to maintain competitive advantage while cutting costs
Planview delivers:
  • Portfolio balancing capabilities to allocate resources across run/grow/transform categories
  • Ring-fencing of innovation funding within constrained budgets
  • Value stream mapping to identify innovation opportunities that enhance core operations
  • Innovation portfolio management integrated with operational IT management
  • Lean IT approaches that free capacity for innovation while maintaining stability
  • Identification of quick-win innovations that can deliver value despite resource constraints
EBOOK

Pivot at Speed: The Leader’s Guide to Planning Course Corrections

Explore why the ability to quickly identify opportunities and execute pivots to balance your IT portfolio is a hallmark of high-performing organizations.

Transform How You Navigate Uncertainty

With Planview, you gain the power to:

  • Make confident, data-driven decisions even in volatile markets
  • Optimize costs while protecting strategic investments
  • Allocate resources where they deliver maximum value
  • Minimize risk through improved visibility and early warnings
  • Adapt strategy quickly when market conditions change
  • Provide unprecedented transparency to stakeholders
  • Break through decision paralysis with actionable insights
  • Retain the talent essential to your future success

Don’t just survive economic uncertainty—make it your competitive advantage. Contact us to learn more about how Planview can help you thrive in today’s unpredictable economic environment.

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