Creativity is a crucial element in the planning process. Without it, your plans may lack originality, freshness, and appeal. However, with a bit of creativity, you can infuse your goals with new ideas and perspectives that will make them more exciting and engaging. Creatives are often cited as critical ingredients in succession planning. In this article, we’ll explore the role creativity plays in effective planning and offer some tips for how to tap into your creative potential.

Financial Services is undergoing a major digital transformation. Technological advances are changing the very core of the business - making transactions and related processes automated. With automated and digitalized services, banks and other financial organizations are looking for effective ways to retain old and attract new customers. Research suggests that FinServ organizations will be able to differentiate themselves from others with the quality of customer service.

According to Gartner, a staggering “91% of HR Leaders are concerned about employee turnover in the immediate future.” With recent changes to the labor market — we’re looking at you Covid-19 and The Great Resignation — this statistic isn’t surprising. What’s more surprising is that employee retention isn’t as tough to improve as you might think.

OKRs can be a powerful tool in an organization’s arsenal for creating alignment, focusing on outcomes instead of just effort or task completions, and surfacing the right operational priorities. They’re just as powerful within departments and teams, and it’s in this latter area that project managers often start to get involved in the OKR process. But what about using OKRs within the project management discipline?

At M-Files, we are actively investing in the user experience and want to keep continuously improving our products. This investment will lead us to launch several small and big updates during this year. We are also making changes to the way we focus on end-user needs, as we want to make M-Files a product that is not only highly functional and secure but also a pleasure to use.