The Rise of the Project Workforce: Managing Projects and People in a Flat World

As organizations and managers find themselves with two feet planted firmly in a fully interconnected, truly global economy, one truth is evident for all enterprises—and particularly for project-driven businesses that rely heavily on project teams and information workers: Our established ways of getting work done, of accounting for this work, of monitoring compliance, and of analyzing work in progress for intelligence that will help us do future work faster,
better, cheaper and smarter are through. They are no longer enough.

This whitepaper reviews the market dynamics that are creating our flat world, explores the new nature of work in this environment, highlights why today’s business and IT systems fall short, and introduces Project Workforce Management, a new breed of systems designed to manage people and projects in a flat world.