Spectrum Workflow allows you to define and enforce specific rules on your Spectrum processes. Not only can the user easily see all steps that are currently assigned to them, they can quickly approve, reject or mark that the step has been completed. The full history of each transaction processed through workflow is always available.

We’ve seen the rapid rise of the project management office (PMO) over the last two decades. An annual survey of more than 400 companies worldwide pegs adoption at 80% and 90% among larger organizations[1]. The 2014 results, however, yielded an interesting blip – a slight decline over 2012 findings. Is this an anomaly or might it be the start of a next generation transformation?

Governance: Ensure alignment of strategy, execution and results.

Resource Management: Support top-down and bottom-up resource requests and staffing processes and make it easy for project and resource managers to communicate their requirements and decisions throughout a project’s lifecycle. Provide a graphical analysis of resource and role utilization in order to help project teams manage resources in a dynamic environment and allow managers to see where resources are being used across all programs and projects, as well as their forecasted future use.

The Employee Kiosk and Subcontract Kiosk allow all authorized users, including subcontractors, easy and secure Spectrum access to payroll and subcontract data—without the need for additional user licenses.

It all starts with good intentions; your good intentions to make a positive impact on the business, your good intentions to help the business become organized, and your good intentions to improve efficiencies and effectiveness. You’re thinking creatively, you’re excited about making positive changes and you’re full of optimistic energy. Yet with all these good intentions, your attempt to deploy a Project Management Office (PMO) is met with resistance from colleagues and fraught with difficulties in implementation.

You can use Spectrum’s customizable Dashboard to expand access to all of your employees without the need to purchase additional licenses.

The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) recent report, Building in change: project construction in asset-intensive industries, found that over one-third of asset-intensive companies miss their budget (39%) and schedule (34%) targets on major projects at least one-quarter of the time; and more than 60% of respondents blame unexpected change for at least one-half of all project overruns. While they frequently acknowledge that some change is inevitable on large-scale projects, E&C firms and owners admit that they could vastly improve how they deal with these changes.

Don Kingsberry, Head of the EPMO at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, shares insights from years of experience working at six of the fastest growing companies in the world. Hear this compelling talk about best practices for high impact EPMOs.

Companies in the oil and gas, utilities, chemicals and natural resource industries are facing an infrastructure crisis. Reliant on proprietary structures such as refineries, plants, oil rigs and mines, as well as power, water and gas networks to run their operations, these industries, in many cases, are working with decades-old structures that are beginning to break down.

Manufacturing is critical to the global economy. It is driven by innovation and operational excellence, which impacts the economy and international trade—all in a volatile and demanding marketplace; A global marketplace which over the last few years has been strained by economic, political and environmental stress.Economists describe the business climate as gradually improving but still very sensitive to market conditions and customer demands. Or is this really the new normal environment for businesses?