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Why Your Creative Team Isn’t Using Your Project Management Software

After months scrambling to finish projects at the last minute, wasting hours searching for feedback buried in your inbox and missing one too many deadlines, you’ve had it. Something needs to change. Being the resourceful problem solver you are, you found a solution: project management software. This will streamline projects, increase collaboration, and help your team manage creative projects. After evaluating dozens of platforms to find your perfect fit—and spending time and money to deploy it—there’s just one problem: No one is using [...]

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Summer Vacation Is Dying, Here’s How to Save It

We’ve all seen idyllic 8mm home movies from summer vacations of bygone eras. A swim-capped child waves at the camera before cannonballing into a lake. An apron-wearing dad sips a beer and flips burgers. A mom in horn-rimmed glasses waves sparklers in the air as the evening sky turns pink over the ocean. These were the vacations we thought we’d have: tranquil, disconnected, and perfect. Today these home movies are a window to an alien world where people are actually able to disconnect from the stress of work for days at a time. Now [...]

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Why Managers Have Unrealistic Expectations About Their Team’s Capabilities

Do you know what Theodore Roosevelt, the Winklevoss Twins, Stephen Hawking, and Anderson Cooper have in common—other than success? They were all competitive rowers. Crew rowing teams must stay in perfect alignment to achieve victory. Eight team members’ oars must enter and exit the water at the same angle, at the same time, and with the same amount of force. The whole boat is affected if just one rower deviates. A rowing team that isn’t in alignment doesn’t win races. One of the biggest challenges every organization contends with is [...]

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How Automation Leads to Creative Confidence

It’s crunch time on a creative project. Your client needs something “ASAP” and they haven’t properly filled out the creative brief. You’re running around trying to gather all the information needed to finish the project. If that’s not enough, there’s a constant flood of daily ad-hoc requests. Not to mention, the tedious admin tasks that must be done. Constantly working under the gun doesn’t inspire the most successful work. Don’t panic just yet. Automation can alleviate your workload so you can focus more on creative aspects [...]

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How Spreadsheets Are Costing You Time and Money

Ah, the dreaded spreadsheet. A juggernaut of grids that contains everything and anything about your projects. You’re reliant on it as the primary source for all updates, check-ins, and approvals. As you depend on the spreadsheet more, you end up spending more time maintaining it than actually using it. You’ve been swallowed into the “spreadsheet hole of despair.” You might be thinking, “Sure, spending time on spreadsheets takes up a lot of time, but it’s worth it.” But is it? Katy Scott, the Digital Learning Manager at the [...]

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Do UK workers find automation at work a hero or villain?

Much has been said about automation at work and a lot of it negative. Which is understandable, because uncertainty often breeds fear. That said, we were interested in hearing what real people, in real offices around Europe had to say about automation. So, we commissioned research among 3,000 employees in the UK, France, and Germany (Wrike Digital Work Report 2018). The results? Most office workers aren’t afraid of automation. In fact, according to our findings, they’d like to see more of it. Our survey shows that no less than 86 percent [...]

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Customer Q&A: Wrike Helps Creative Agency Deliver With Confidence

You do everything you can to build the best creative team. You hire the right talent. Arm them with the best tools. Answer all their questions. However, if your processes are outdated, are you really doing everything to make your team successful?  Creative Agency owners devote so much time on the work at hand, making sure nothing falls through the cracks, at the expense of running the business. With competition so tight, it’s difficult to have confidence in your team to deliver a high capacity of projects on time without overseeing [...]

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Greater Visibility with New and Improved Dashboards

Whether you track the status of your projects or monitor your team’s workload, Dashboards have been extremely helpful to thousands of companies. Today, we’re excited to announce some enhancements that have all been driven by you, our customers. Earlier this year, we gave you the ability to create and edit Dashboard Widgets, and now we’re simplifying and improving sharing, navigation, and the overall look and feel. We’re also giving you the ability to create Dashboards straight from templates. Fresh Layout and Design Our entire [...]

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The Four Disciplines That Propel Companies Forward

The world’s top tier companies don’t do things the way other companies do. They’re different, and we’ve been obsessed with figuring out exactly what those differences are. After working with over 15,000 of the world’s leading companies, we’ve been able to identify those magic ingredients that seem to separate those who succeed from those who fail. And it all boils down to a deliberate investment in four key disciplines: Planning, Process, Collaboration, and Visibility. They may seem obvious, but today’s on-demand economy requires [...]

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The Best Project Management Conferences to Attend in 2018

According to Reader’s Digest, “learning something new” is one of the ten most popular New Year’s Resolutions. And one of the best places to learn new things are at industry conferences.  Conferences help you stay up-to-speed on the latest industry developments, pick up tips from respected experts in the field, meet other project management professionals, and have some fun learning new tricks of the trade in a new city.  Lucky for you, we’ve collected a list of the best project management conferences for 2018. North America Change [...]

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