David Lindheimer

Global 2000 organizations are under increasing pressure to measure the contribution of all functions within the enterprise. Leading companies will use workforce analytics to improve the planning, deployment and measurement of their workforce, according to META Group.

The HR function will continue a slow and incomplete evolution during the next five years from commoditized administrator to valued business partner and custodian of workforce assets, according to META Group.

There is a limited set of software tools available to support the emerging discipline of IT project portfolio management. Graphical presentation and communication of project interrelationships are the primary feature sets, with relatively few tools providing advanced capabilities, such as: project valuation, dynamic modeling, and direct paths from analytic presentation to effective actions.