EVM Is Not Enough: The Case for Adding Business Value Management

| Category: Project Management.

TL;DR Earned Value Management is the most widely adopted project performance measurement system in the world. It is also fundamentally incomplete as a measure of project success. EVM tells you whether you are delivering on time and on budget. It cannot tell you whether what you are delivering will produce the business value the investment… Read more

8 Types of Employee Recognition And When to Use Each One

| Category: Employee Recognition.

TL;DR There are 8 main types of employee recognition: peer-to-peer, manager-led, public, private, formal, informal, monetary, and non-monetary. The most effective recognition programs use a mix of all eight, because different people, moments, and contributions call for different types of appreciation. Relying on just one or two leaves makes most of your team feel invisible…. Read more

What CFOs Should Be Asking About Project Financial Visibility Right Now

| Category: Project Management.

Karthick Nethaji Kaleeswaran Director of Products | Strategy Consultant Published Date: March 5, 2026 TL;DR Most CFOs have strong visibility into their organization’s operational finances. Fewer have the same visibility into their project portfolio’s financial performance, where a growing share of capital is being deployed. This post gives CFOs seven diagnostic questions to assess their… Read more

3 Integration Architectures for Project Portfolio Management and ERP: A Decision Guide

| Category: Project Management.

Karthick Nethaji Kaleeswaran Director of Products | Strategy Consultant Published Date: March 16, 2026 TL;DR Most organizations treat the integration between their Project Portfolio Management platform and ERP as a technical problem to solve once and move on from. It is not. It is an architectural decision that determines how financial information flows across the… Read more

The Change Management Reality When Integrating Project Portfolio Management and ERP

| Category: Project Management.

Karthick Nethaji Kaleeswaran Director of Products | Strategy Consultant Published Date: March 16, 2026 TL;DR Most integrations between Project Portfolio Management platforms and ERP systems fail due to adoption, not technology. The API works. The data flows. And then nothing changes because the people who were supposed to change how they work have not been… Read more

The 4 Levels of Project Financial Control: Which One Does Your Organization Need?

| Category: Project Management.

Karthick Nethaji Kaleeswaran Director of Products | Strategy Consultant Published Date: March 16, 2026 TL;DR Most organizations assume their financial control is good enough. The data says otherwise. This post breaks down the four levels of project financial control, what separates each one, and the diagnostic questions that tell you exactly where your organization stands… Read more

What Government Projects Reveal About the Future of Project Finance

| Category: Project Management.

Karthick Nethaji Kaleeswaran Director of Products | Strategy Consultant Published Date: March 16, 2026 TL;DR Government agencies manage projects under financial governance requirements so stringent that most private sector organizations would consider them impossible to operate under. And yet the practices that governance demands, real-time payment visibility, transaction-level audit trails, structured approval workflows, are the… Read more

Why Your Work Breakdown Structure and Cost Breakdown Structure Should Never Be the Same Thing

| Category: Project Management.

Karthick Nethaji Kaleeswaran Director of Products | Strategy Consultant Published Date: March 16, 2026 TL;DR The Work Breakdown Structure organizes how you deliver projects. The Cost Breakdown Structure organizes how you account for them. These two structures serve fundamentally different purposes, speak to different audiences, and should never be the same document. Conflating them is… Read more

Profit.co’s Project Portfolio Management ROI Calculator: Turning Portfolio Waste Into Measurable Opportunity

| Category: Project Management.

Karthick Nethaji Kaleeswaran Director of Products | Strategy Consultant Published Date: March 3, 2026 TL;DR Profit.co’s Project Portfolio Management ROI Calculator is a 1-minute assessment that quantifies the invisible waste hiding in your project portfolio across four dimensions: strategic misalignment, portfolio fragmentation, decision velocity, and value realization. This blog explains what the calculator measures, why… Read more

CIO’s 6 Strategy Execution Priorities in 2026

| Category: Project Management.

TL;DR The CIO role has fundamentally changed. Managing technology is no longer enough. The CIOs driving real business impact are connecting IT decisions to revenue, aligning teams to shared goals, and making strategy execution a repeatable system. Here is how to do the same. The CIO Role Has Changed In an era of constant disruption,… Read more

From Doerr’s Book to Your Dashboard: Where Do Initiatives Actually Belong in OKRs?

| Category: OKR Management.

Arun Rajah Manager, Customer Success Operations Last updated: March 11, 2026 TL;DR John Doerr’s OKR framework consists of Objectives, Key Results, and Initiatives. In Profit.co, you track measurable outcomes with KPI-based Key Results and substantial work with Initiative-based Key Results (or tasks for smaller activities). This flexibility lets you see both “are we achieving the… Read more

Project Portfolio Management to Financial Planning Integration: Building the Data Bridge

| Category: Project Management.

Karthick Nethaji Kaleeswaran Director of Products | Strategy Consultant Published Date: March 11, 2026 TL;DR The data you need to answer the board’s toughest questions already exists. It’s just scattered. Project costs sit in your Project Portfolio Management tool. Actuals live in your ERP. Benefit assumptions are buried in business case spreadsheets. KPIs are tracked… Read more