Take the Strategic Planning Improvement Quiz!

Highly successful organizations and individuals have something in common: an extremely clear vision and alignment of what they want to achieve—and how.

The way an organization sets strategy, manages the work, and tracks business outcomes is critical to success. Now more than ever, it’s important to align the organization. The right systems and approach can help you define ambitious targets, track progress, respond to change confidently, and deliver more value.

Where does your organization stand when it comes to strategic planning? Take the Strategic Planning Improvement Quiz to identify the important issues for your business. We’ll instantly deliver the most helpful content so you can achieve your key strategic planning goals!

1. What is top of mind when it comes to improving your strategic planning?

Applying agile concepts and principles for continuous planning Investing in technology to align the organization to deliver the expected business outcomes Enabling our project management offices (PMOs) to be more strategic

2. What is your main goal for improving your strategic planning?

Managing digital transformation for better business outcomes Increasing revenue growth and customer satisfaction Implementing Scaled Agile Framework across our operations

3. What is your most urgent strategic planning challenge?

Being able to adapt plans and build scenarios to changing circumstances Aligning the PMO with the organization's strategic planning, goals and objectives
and key results (OKRs) Being able to update strategic road maps in real time

4. What about your current technology is preventing you from maximizing your strategic planning outcomes?

An inability to visualize the impact of a change An inability to eliminate departmental silos An inability to integrate workflows across the business

5. What would you like to improve about your ability to provide insights to stakeholders about your technology investments?

Use Agile to show a connection between funding and delivery Show how IT investments align with business needs in real time Deepen the direct relationship between PMOs and investment owner

6. What would be the biggest risk factor if you maintained the status quo?

Slow delivery—we won’t be able to decrease our time to market We won’t be able to measure business outcomes with the investments Lack of transparency—we won’t have enough visibility into all the work

7. What aspect of your strategic planning needs the most improvement?

Evaluating and allocating resources and capacity intelligently Scaling Agile horizontally and vertically throughout our organization Enabling leadership to make informed, confident decisions in response to disruption

8. What would you be able to achieve if you had a 360-degree view of your strategic planning?

We could deliver customer value faster We could provide an intuitive, visual representation of priorities and plans (e.g., road maps) We could better align the work to the intended business goals and outcomes

9. What would be the benefits of a single platform that combines planning through execution with technology?

We’d have more effective resourcing for global IT projects We could adopt Agile as well as hybrid delivery concepts at the enterprise and team levels so we could better adjust to new circumstances We could provide a high level of performance and project/portfolio delivery to the business

10. What would you most appreciate in a strategic planning solutions provider?

One who can help us expand Agile methodologies into new areas of the business, providing visibility into all the work One who can help us align the entire organization around customer value One who can make our planning, alignment, work delivery, and business outcomes management more effective