As the new year approaches, product managers are preparing to set their teams up for success. While quarterly planning is a well-known strategy, executing it effectively can be a challenge. This blog will explore how to maximize your quarterly planning process in the coming year, ensuring alignment, adaptability, and continuous improvement. We’ll also highlight how Craft.io, your go-to product management tool, can streamline your efforts and enhance collaboration across teams.

In today’s competitive job market, attracting and retaining top talent is more challenging than ever. Organizations are constantly seeking ways to recognize and reward their employees’ hard work and dedication. One effective method for doing this is through merit increases.

As startups experience rapid growth, operational complexity tends to increase. Multiple departments, expanding teams, and rising customer demands can create inefficiencies if processes aren’t properly streamlined. One effective way to manage growth while maintaining operational efficiency is by building a shared services group.

In today's educational landscape, schools meeting their goals and achieve administrative excellence is more critical than ever. Effective performance management not only shapes the success of students but also empowers faculty and administrative staff. School leaders are now focusing on ways to systematically measure educational performance management through a combination of school-wide goals, individual faculty performance, and the successful delivery of school initiatives.

Navigating the world of government contracting can be a challenging endeavor for consulting firms, especially given the complex regulations, lengthy procurement processes, and intense competition. However, by employing strategic approaches and leveraging technology, consulting firms can simplify these processes, enhance efficiency, and achieve business growth. Here are three tips for consulting firms looking to streamline their government contracting efforts and improve their bottom line.

In recent times, social media search pages have been stormed by? This trend has sparked discussions about how emotionally attached people are at work and how engaged they feel. Many companies are now looking for ways to tackle this quiet sign of disengagement. The term what is quiet quitting has become popular among the genZ employees, especially after the viral TikTok post in 2022. It was able to capture media attention, and the term was all over media houses.

Ask any manager about their biggest pet peeve, and you’ll probably hear the same response: “Working with distributed and disconnected teams!” Honestly, who can blame them? With hybrid work becoming the new normal, managers are spending (read: wasting) more time reaching out to team members than getting work done. This shift is also contributing to gaps in communication, human errors, and missed briefs.

IT teams have shifted to center court of the organizational communication game. Not only are they still responsible for the infrastructure that allows business to get done, they’re now the architects of digital employee experiences, wielding the power to drive measurable business outcomes through strategic employee technology management.

Breeze through your to-do list with the Pomodoro Technique—a time-management strategy that uses 25-minute work sessions and 5-minute breaks. By breaking work into manageable chunks, you can limit interruptions and reduce mental fatigue. Below we explain how the technique works, its benefits, and how to implement it for yourself. Do you ever feel overwhelmed by your to-do list and wonder how you’ll complete everything?