In-depth interviews with IT leaders confirm that they are still grappling with an answer to the challenge of visibility and risk management across their initiatives, and cite this as one of the biggest reasons for poor execution.
This supports the Harvard Business Schools research that “80% of Directors said they had the right strategies, but only 14% thought that they were implementing them well.”
GC Marshall interviewed executives from a broad range of IT leadership roles, spanning the banking, pharmaceuticals and property sectors.
All candidates had actively looked to the market at some point for a solution but found no defacto product of choice or clear market leader.
Most firms were still running multiple systems and then manually manipulating processes and data to provide some element of visibility and control over their initiatives – but this was proving to be both time consuming and inadequate.
Candidates were introduced to Air Traffic Control (ATC) and asked for their feedback:
“I think it’s a compelling proposition. You’d be crazy not to think about or listen to. It feels like its answering or resolving a lot of problems that exist today.”
The most appealing features were found to be ATC’s answer to:
- Dashboarding, with the ability to drill down
- Stakeholder management
- Visibility across multiple programmes / regions
- Gatekeeping Change. Stage & gate function as a governance process for filtering and progressing programmes.
- Risk control
- Demand management for resources across multiple projects.
- Skills database to assess exposure
About Air Traffic Control
Built for a Telco Manufacturer and scaled for the worldwide market, the system was first created in 1998 to operationalize best practices. They needed a way to sustain business improvements over time, making them repeatable, trackable and visible.
Air Traffic Control (ATC) is a web-based platform for improving and systematizing processes. We build and scale ATC quickly, to bring visibility and consistency to important processes.