As the technological expansion is faster than ever before, this constant disruption is putting customers under pressure to innovate or make changes to their products and services faster and with more impact. As a result, there is a big focus on value, agility, and velocity.Exacerbating this is the fact that skilled human resources are in short supply, so it is critical to plan team and resource capacity so that people and capital can flow to the highest priorities. At this juncture, there is a proliferation of work management and business management technologies across their enterprise. Some of these tools are problematic duplications, while others are welcome and valuable. Sometimes, these tools don’t talk to each other, or they overlap, creating inefficiency and silos in what should be an end-to-end business process. This is where OnePlan—a strategic portfolio, financial, resource and work management solution provider—is creating a difference.
OnePlan’s offerings include a whole suite of capabilities for managing this performance in real-time, which is key to making decisions when things need to change. That includes making business decisions with dashboards, managing outcomes and strategic themes with OKRs, managing deliverables through work plans, planning, and adjusting capacity with resource management and financial management tools. “We also put workflows around these processes to help teams work efficiently,” adds Joe Larscheid, Founder & CEO, OnePlan.
Strategic Portfolio Management is an enterprise concern and inevitably touches on enterprise systems, such as those used by Finance, Sales and HR. The OneConnect product by OnePlan is a great way to connect with those systems and share data between them, without custom development. Additionally, for teams that are very attached to specific work management tools, OneConnect allows you the option of connecting them to the solution. OnePlan includes comprehensive tools for managing agile projects, complex waterfall projects, and simple Kanban-style projects.
What makes OnePlan stand out is its constant striving for improvement, visibly from the number of new features that the company releases frequently. “And how hard we work on the question of ‘what’s next?’ with portfolio management. Another side of OnePlan is being practical: how we work hard to meet our customers where they are and help them progress one step at a time. I think our customers benefit from both. What is of paramount importance is that our customers have a positive experience with us as a solution provider. Therefore, creating great customer journeys and offering world-class support are the most important investments we make,” Larscheid points out.
The origins of today’s OnePlan began over 20 years ago with a mission to help organizations see and manage their projects. Larscheid saw a gap in the enterprise: timelines, budgets, and resources needed better visibility. This goal of delivering visibility has remained, buthave taken on so many other goals, to help customers improve strategic planning, manage their work more efficiently, and optimize their technology decisions.
In the last few years, the evolution of OnePlan’s team, products, and the marketplace has been extraordinary. Today, OnePlan is focused on Strategic Portfolio Management. This means helping organizations around the World not just with project management but with strategically planning, optimizing, and executing their enterprise portfolios of initiatives, products, and technology. In short, helping businesses connect strategy and outcomes. “Today, we are seeing the concept of strategic portfolio management taking off. All the supporting features we have been working on are now being adopted, such as tools for measuring business value and tools for enterprise architecture. We have a culture of frequent releases, so we have many more things planned for this year and next. At the same time, OnePlan is growing internationally. We are seeing an exciting rate of growth beyond North America, especially in Europe and Australia, concludes Larscheid.
Company:
Oneplan
Management:
Joe Larscheid, CEO
Quote:
“What is of paramount importance is that our customers have a positive experience with us as a solution provider. Therefore, creating great customer journeys and offering world-class support are the most important investments we make”
