Remember Etch-a-Sketch? Did you know some iPhone apps allow you to shake it to undo it's last action? A number of our customers have asked for an undo feature. It's on our near-term roadmap list. On Friday, the 29th of March, we were scheming an idea for an April Fools joke after we planned the upcoming undo feature.
Read MoreToday when you create a new project in PIEmatrix and start assigning people, the team members may get an email notice saying they were added to the project.
Read MoreThis is another sneak preview post in our series of what's new in the upcoming 5.0 release. Today, I will introduce 6 new social views in PIEmatrix and why they are important to business performance. Important --- These social features will be a major addition to PIEmatrix and we hope to get great feedback from our customers as they start to use it.
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In Part 1 we introduced the 3 reasons why there are adoption failures for new software tools. In this Part 2, we help businesses reduce that gap with 3 helpful solution tips. Read how to reduce the adoption gap for applications.
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Any product's success can be determined by user adoption. If they don't use it, it wasn't successful. Enterprise software faces this challenge every day. Millions are spent on the software and configuration only later to find that people don't use them.
Read MoreA top reason why many enterprise and business applications end up collecting dust is because of poor user adoption. If users don't use it, the value will never be realized. At Pie, we make good design our number one customer success driver.
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Does innovation have to be the big game changer? What about the little changes that add up to big value? I call this "micro-innovation". Improving your projects and processes with many small inventions can get you to success faster than the big macro innovation solution.
Read MoreMessaging features in tools are important. Consider using Pie or another collaborative application to talk with your co-workers about the work you’re doing. It increases the value of work flow and it also provides an archival history of past conversations.
Read MoreWe have a new version in the oven starting to bake! Over the past year we have been working this major upgrade and now it's time to start spreading the word. As of this week, we are moving from the development slice to the QA slice.
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Why do projects fail? Just google it and you will find over 400,000 results. Check out the famous Standish Chaos Report or Michael Krigsman's Why 37 percent of projects fail report. They point to these 2 common reasons...
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We put together these 12 tips on how to improve your organization with best practices that businesses have used while adopting the Pie application. This can be used for any other process improvement vendor tool.
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This article is about a correlation between the health part of people transportation versus the the healthy part of the transportation of information for projects and business processes.
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Today, we have a guest blogger. His name is Ken Signorello. Ken is the owner of Darkroom Gallery and a Pie customer. Ken talks about his challenges with his monthly artist reception events. Listen to how he solved his issues with Pie and started building repeatable processes for improving his monthly receptions.
Read MoreIn my last blog, we introduced the concept of Chaos, Order, Alive!, the three process maturity levels. In this post we reveal a step-by-step process on on how to move from Chaos to Order. I call it the Chaos Exit Strategy. Read the post...
Read MoreLast week on September 12, 2012, my company, PIEmatrix, sponsored the IIL Global Summit on Leadership and Strategic Project Management organized by International Institute for Learning, Inc. (IIL) and New York University (NYU). In collaboration with IIL and Dr. Harold Kerzner, I was able to convert a great white paper by Dr. Kerzner called Project Health Checks into a set of actionable steps to execute inside the PIEmatrix application. We made this executable project free for all attendees
Read MoreIs it possible to improve your effectiveness by 40%? My approach to effectiveness is rock solid if you have the desire to move up to a top process and people maturity level, work hard, and garnish commitment and accountability. Listen to the recording of the Chaos, Order, Alive! webinar to learn more.
Read MoreA TED Talk explains that our schools have ruthlessly squandered our kids' tremendous talents. Unless we happen to work in a creative agency, organizations have continued the tradition of ruthlessly squashing creativity in adults. I believe that creativity now is as important in business as experience and knowledge. Learn more…
Read More5 easy steps to manage your projects each day. 1) View your own workload first. 2) Make sure you have the right steps in place. 3) Review the big picture first. 4) Drill down as needed. And 5) Solve problems.
Read MoreRevolution Productions out of Buenos Aires, Argentina created a 2-minute animated video for our home page. They agreed to use our Pie platform to conduct the management and execution of the project. Learn how they used Pie to drive their video creation project.
Read MoreWe're pleased to announce that PieMatrix and Computer Aid (CAI) have entered into a strategic alliance. CAI will bundle our PIEmatrix business execution platform with their CAI ITBuzz business risk management suite. The combined solution will complete the business execution lifecycle from project execution to people feedback to real-time process improvement.
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