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Project Snapshot
Client Overview
A leading nonprofit healthcare organization, specializing in lifesaving biomedical services, was facing strategic planning challenges across multiple business units. They required a more optimized, transparent, and scalable approach to portfolio, strategic initiative, and project management.
Industry
Non-Profit
Healthcare
Inspira's Offerings
PPM Transformation
Strategic Insight Hub
Intelligent Initiative Scoring
Unified Workspaces Enablement
Location
United States
Applications
Strategic Planning Workspace
Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM)
Project & Collaborative Workspace
Strategic Alignment and Goals
Challenges
Project Challenges
Limited Visibility into Initiatives
The organization struggled with fragmented data across different business units, making it difficult for leadership to view, track, and align ongoing initiatives. Without a centralized system, teams operated in silos, reducing transparency and collaboration.
Ineffective Prioritization of Initiatives
The organization lacked a standardized framework for assessing and ranking initiatives based on their strategic importance. This led to suboptimal decision-making, where lower-impact projects sometimes received attention over high-priority initiatives.
Resource Allocation Challenges
Shared resources across teams were not effectively managed, resulting in scheduling conflicts, underutilization, and bottlenecks. The absence of a structured resource management process led to inefficiencies and project delays.
Legacy PPM System and Migration Concerns
The organization was relying on an older version of ServiceNow’s Project Portfolio Management (PPM), which had become increasingly inadequate for its growing and evolving strategic planning needs. A major concern was how to transition to the new SPM solution without disrupting ongoing demands and projects.
Limited Visibility into Initiatives
The organization struggled with fragmented data across different business units, making it difficult for leadership to view, track, and align ongoing initiatives. Without a centralized system, teams operated in silos, reducing transparency and collaboration.
Ineffective Prioritization of Initiatives
The organization lacked a standardized framework for assessing and ranking initiatives based on their strategic importance. This led to suboptimal decision-making, where lower-impact projects sometimes received attention over high-priority initiatives.
Resource Allocation Challenges
Shared resources across teams were not effectively managed, resulting in scheduling conflicts, underutilization, and bottlenecks. The absence of a structured resource management process led to inefficiencies and project delays.
Legacy PPM System and Migration Concerns
The organization was relying on an older version of ServiceNow’s Project Portfolio Management (PPM), which had become increasingly inadequate for its growing and evolving strategic planning needs. A major concern was how to transition to the new SPM solution without disrupting ongoing demands and projects.
Limited Visibility into Initiatives
The organization struggled with fragmented data across different business units, making it difficult for leadership to view, track, and align ongoing initiatives. Without a centralized system, teams operated in silos, reducing transparency and collaboration.
Ineffective Prioritization of Initiatives
The organization lacked a standardized framework for assessing and ranking initiatives based on their strategic importance. This led to suboptimal decision-making, where lower-impact projects sometimes received attention over high-priority initiatives.
Resource Allocation Challenges
Shared resources across teams were not effectively managed, resulting in scheduling conflicts, underutilization, and bottlenecks. The absence of a structured resource management process led to inefficiencies and project delays.
Legacy PPM System and Migration Concerns
The organization was relying on an older version of ServiceNow’s Project Portfolio Management (PPM), which had become increasingly inadequate for its growing and evolving strategic planning needs. A major concern was how to transition to the new SPM solution without disrupting ongoing demands and projects.
Limited Visibility into Initiatives
The organization struggled with fragmented data across different business units, making it difficult for leadership to view, track, and align ongoing initiatives. Without a centralized system, teams operated in silos, reducing transparency and collaboration.
Ineffective Prioritization of Initiatives
The organization lacked a standardized framework for assessing and ranking initiatives based on their strategic importance. This led to suboptimal decision-making, where lower-impact projects sometimes received attention over high-priority initiatives.
Resource Allocation Challenges
Shared resources across teams were not effectively managed, resulting in scheduling conflicts, underutilization, and bottlenecks. The absence of a structured resource management process led to inefficiencies and project delays.
Legacy PPM System and Migration Concerns
The organization was relying on an older version of ServiceNow’s Project Portfolio Management (PPM), which had become increasingly inadequate for its growing and evolving strategic planning needs. A major concern was how to transition to the new SPM solution without disrupting ongoing demands and projects.
Strategic Visibility & Governance
- Real-time visibility into initiatives, empowered business unit leaders to make informed decisions, and collaborate across shared initiatives.
- Standardized prioritization and evaluation processes brought clarity and consistency to initiative management.
- Multi-manager governance enabled shared project ownership, enhancing collaboration and accountability across teams during project execution.
- Improved efficiency, visibility, and real-time collaboration contributed to significant operational cost savings.
Operational Efficiency & User Experience
- Streamlined resource management enabled better cross-functional collaboration.
- Wizard-based intake forms simplified the submission process, significantly improving accuracy and user adoption. These forms reduced the need for back-and-forth communication to gather initiative details by including rich, embedded guided help that supported users in providing accurate and complete submissions from the start.
- Robust content creation tools empowered non-technical users to publish rich, media-enabled content with ease.
Seamless Transition & Insightful Reporting
- Seamless migration from legacy PPM to modern SPM ensured no disruption to active operations.
- Dynamic dashboards provided leadership with real-time strategic insights.
- PMO leaders, initiative owners, and project managers were empowered to collaborate in real time, update initiatives, gain visibility into shared initiatives, and make on-the-fly changes to multi-year roadmaps. This enabled them to stay continuously informed about changes and their cascading effects across the portfolio, ultimately resulting in improved governance, agility, and engagement.
Solution
Proposed Solution
Strategic Planning and Prioritization Framework
We developed a structured approach to define strategic priorities, initiatives, and goals aligned with the enterprise strategy. The new Strategic Planning Workspace offered an intuitive interface for the PMO office, business owners, and initiative owners to collaboratively plan, prioritize, and align initiatives across the organization. This facilitated more informed prioritization and optimized investment decisions.
- Developed a user-friendly and intuitive SPM Portal that provided visibility into real-time priorities, planning items, and strategic alignment for a broader group of stakeholders and executive contributors who are not involved in the day-to-day management of an initiative.
- Established a consistent prioritization model to assess and rank initiatives based on business value.
- Enabled leadership to align funding decisions with enterprise strategy and focus areas.
- Introduced the Project Workspace to streamline execution, providing clear visibility into tasks, progress, and resource allocation.
- Enabled the Collaborative Work Management Workspace to promote team engagement and collaboration on tasks.
- Delivered interactive, visual roadmaps for tracking multi-year plans and scenario-based planning.
Streamlined Initiative Intake and Evaluation
We designed an intuitive, multi-stage wizard for initiative intake that made submissions straightforward, guided, and consistent. This experience helped reduce submission errors and eliminated the need for repeated clarification, resulting in a faster and more efficient intake process.
- Included embedded help and guidance at every step to enhance submission quality.
- Enabled users to save drafts and resume submissions without losing progress.
- Minimized the need for back-and-forth communication by helping users submit accurately on their first attempt.
- Converted the process of evaluating and scoring initiatives from subjective to purely objective and factual scoring.
- Designed a robust scoring engine to quantify initiative value and effort based on user selections. Inputs such as impact, complexity, time to completion, and resource requirements were mapped to predefined weights, generating an objective prioritization score to support strategic, data-driven planning.
- Implemented an intelligent workflow to map calculated intake scores into the native SPM scoring model, ensuring consistency and compatibility with ServiceNow’s score engine.
Enhanced Demand-to-Project Workflow
We implemented an automated, structured workflow to convert approved initiatives into formal projects. By integrating legacy demand data with SPM capabilities, we improved continuity and unlocked new efficiencies for the PMO.
- Integrated historical demand data from the legacy demand records into the new SPM planning items using a robust bi-directional integration.
- Introduced lifecycle tracking and initiative review for better prioritization and planning.
- Enabled Initiative owners, Business owners, and stakeholders to transition smoothly from planning to execution with full visibility.
Seamless Migration & Digital Content Empowerment
The organization transitioned from legacy PPM to ServiceNow SPM without any disruption to in-flight demands or projects. In parallel, we introduced a powerful digital content management capability that enabled teams to publish media-rich content directly to the portal, eliminating additional work for IT.
- Executed a seamless migration from legacy PPM to SPM, not only preserving active projects and demands but also integrating them with new SPM capabilities—enhancing PMO efficiency, visibility, and operational cohesion.
- Enabled initiative owners and PMO staff to create and publish dynamic content using flexible, pre-built templates.
- Supported rich media (videos, images, links) and contextual knowledge articles in published updates.
- Removed the dependency on developers or IT for content updates, fostering self-sufficiency and agility across departments.
Strategic Planning and Prioritization Framework
We developed a structured approach to define strategic priorities, initiatives, and goals aligned with the enterprise strategy. The new Strategic Planning Workspace offered an intuitive interface for the PMO office, business owners, and initiative owners to collaboratively plan, prioritize, and align initiatives across the organization. This facilitated more informed prioritization and optimized investment decisions.
- Developed a user-friendly and intuitive SPM Portal that provided visibility into real-time priorities, planning items, and strategic alignment for a broader group of stakeholders and executive contributors who are not involved in the day-to-day management of an initiative.
- Established a consistent prioritization model to assess and rank initiatives based on business value.
- Enabled leadership to align funding decisions with enterprise strategy and focus areas.
- Introduced the Project Workspace to streamline execution, providing clear visibility into tasks, progress, and resource allocation.
- Enabled the Collaborative Work Management Workspace to promote team engagement and collaboration on tasks.
- Delivered interactive, visual roadmaps for tracking multi-year plans and scenario-based planning.
Streamlined Initiative Intake and Evaluation
We designed an intuitive, multi-stage wizard for initiative intake that made submissions straightforward, guided, and consistent. This experience helped reduce submission errors and eliminated the need for repeated clarification, resulting in a faster and more efficient intake process.
- Included embedded help and guidance at every step to enhance submission quality.
- Enabled users to save drafts and resume submissions without losing progress.
- Minimized the need for back-and-forth communication by helping users submit accurately on their first attempt.
- Converted the process of evaluating and scoring initiatives from subjective to purely objective and factual scoring.
- Designed a robust scoring engine to quantify initiative value and effort based on user selections. Inputs such as impact, complexity, time to completion, and resource requirements were mapped to predefined weights, generating an objective prioritization score to support strategic, data-driven planning.
- Implemented an intelligent workflow to map calculated intake scores into the native SPM scoring model, ensuring consistency and compatibility with ServiceNow’s score engine.
Enhanced Demand-to-Project Workflow
We implemented an automated, structured workflow to convert approved initiatives into formal projects. By integrating legacy demand data with SPM capabilities, we improved continuity and unlocked new efficiencies for the PMO.
- Integrated historical demand data from the legacy demand records into the new SPM planning items using a robust bi-directional integration.
- Introduced lifecycle tracking and initiative review for better prioritization and planning.
- Enabled Initiative owners, Business owners, and stakeholders to transition smoothly from planning to execution with full visibility.
Seamless Migration & Digital Content Empowerment
The organization transitioned from legacy PPM to ServiceNow SPM without any disruption to in-flight demands or projects. In parallel, we introduced a powerful digital content management capability that enabled teams to publish media-rich content directly to the portal, eliminating additional work for IT.
- Executed a seamless migration from legacy PPM to SPM, not only preserving active projects and demands but also integrating them with new SPM capabilities—enhancing PMO efficiency, visibility, and operational cohesion.
- Enabled initiative owners and PMO staff to create and publish dynamic content using flexible, pre-built templates.
- Supported rich media (videos, images, links) and contextual knowledge articles in published updates.
- Removed the dependency on developers or IT for content updates, fostering self-sufficiency and agility across departments.
Strategic Planning and Prioritization Framework
We developed a structured approach to define strategic priorities, initiatives, and goals aligned with the enterprise strategy. The new Strategic Planning Workspace offered an intuitive interface for the PMO office, business owners, and initiative owners to collaboratively plan, prioritize, and align initiatives across the organization. This facilitated more informed prioritization and optimized investment decisions.
- Developed a user-friendly and intuitive SPM Portal that provided visibility into real-time priorities, planning items, and strategic alignment for a broader group of stakeholders and executive contributors who are not involved in the day-to-day management of an initiative.
- Established a consistent prioritization model to assess and rank initiatives based on business value.
- Enabled leadership to align funding decisions with enterprise strategy and focus areas.
- Introduced the Project Workspace to streamline execution, providing clear visibility into tasks, progress, and resource allocation.
- Enabled the Collaborative Work Management Workspace to promote team engagement and collaboration on tasks.
- Delivered interactive, visual roadmaps for tracking multi-year plans and scenario-based planning.
Streamlined Initiative Intake and Evaluation
We designed an intuitive, multi-stage wizard for initiative intake that made submissions straightforward, guided, and consistent. This experience helped reduce submission errors and eliminated the need for repeated clarification, resulting in a faster and more efficient intake process.
- Included embedded help and guidance at every step to enhance submission quality.
- Enabled users to save drafts and resume submissions without losing progress.
- Minimized the need for back-and-forth communication by helping users submit accurately on their first attempt.
- Converted the process of evaluating and scoring initiatives from subjective to purely objective and factual scoring.
- Designed a robust scoring engine to quantify initiative value and effort based on user selections. Inputs such as impact, complexity, time to completion, and resource requirements were mapped to predefined weights, generating an objective prioritization score to support strategic, data-driven planning.
- Implemented an intelligent workflow to map calculated intake scores into the native SPM scoring model, ensuring consistency and compatibility with ServiceNow’s score engine.
Enhanced Demand-to-Project Workflow
We implemented an automated, structured workflow to convert approved initiatives into formal projects. By integrating legacy demand data with SPM capabilities, we improved continuity and unlocked new efficiencies for the PMO.
- Integrated historical demand data from the legacy demand records into the new SPM planning items using a robust bi-directional integration.
- Introduced lifecycle tracking and initiative review for better prioritization and planning.
- Enabled Initiative owners, Business owners, and stakeholders to transition smoothly from planning to execution with full visibility.
Seamless Migration & Digital Content Empowerment
The organization transitioned from legacy PPM to ServiceNow SPM without any disruption to in-flight demands or projects. In parallel, we introduced a powerful digital content management capability that enabled teams to publish media-rich content directly to the portal, eliminating additional work for IT.
- Executed a seamless migration from legacy PPM to SPM, not only preserving active projects and demands but also integrating them with new SPM capabilities—enhancing PMO efficiency, visibility, and operational cohesion.
- Enabled initiative owners and PMO staff to create and publish dynamic content using flexible, pre-built templates.
- Supported rich media (videos, images, links) and contextual knowledge articles in published updates.
- Removed the dependency on developers or IT for content updates, fostering self-sufficiency and agility across departments.
Strategic Planning and Prioritization Framework
We developed a structured approach to define strategic priorities, initiatives, and goals aligned with the enterprise strategy. The new Strategic Planning Workspace offered an intuitive interface for the PMO office, business owners, and initiative owners to collaboratively plan, prioritize, and align initiatives across the organization. This facilitated more informed prioritization and optimized investment decisions.
- Developed a user-friendly and intuitive SPM Portal that provided visibility into real-time priorities, planning items, and strategic alignment for a broader group of stakeholders and executive contributors who are not involved in the day-to-day management of an initiative.
- Established a consistent prioritization model to assess and rank initiatives based on business value.
- Enabled leadership to align funding decisions with enterprise strategy and focus areas.
- Introduced the Project Workspace to streamline execution, providing clear visibility into tasks, progress, and resource allocation.
- Enabled the Collaborative Work Management Workspace to promote team engagement and collaboration on tasks.
- Delivered interactive, visual roadmaps for tracking multi-year plans and scenario-based planning.
Streamlined Initiative Intake and Evaluation
We designed an intuitive, multi-stage wizard for initiative intake that made submissions straightforward, guided, and consistent. This experience helped reduce submission errors and eliminated the need for repeated clarification, resulting in a faster and more efficient intake process.
- Included embedded help and guidance at every step to enhance submission quality.
- Enabled users to save drafts and resume submissions without losing progress.
- Minimized the need for back-and-forth communication by helping users submit accurately on their first attempt.
- Converted the process of evaluating and scoring initiatives from subjective to purely objective and factual scoring.
- Designed a robust scoring engine to quantify initiative value and effort based on user selections. Inputs such as impact, complexity, time to completion, and resource requirements were mapped to predefined weights, generating an objective prioritization score to support strategic, data-driven planning.
- Implemented an intelligent workflow to map calculated intake scores into the native SPM scoring model, ensuring consistency and compatibility with ServiceNow’s score engine.
Enhanced Demand-to-Project Workflow
We implemented an automated, structured workflow to convert approved initiatives into formal projects. By integrating legacy demand data with SPM capabilities, we improved continuity and unlocked new efficiencies for the PMO.
- Integrated historical demand data from the legacy demand records into the new SPM planning items using a robust bi-directional integration.
- Introduced lifecycle tracking and initiative review for better prioritization and planning.
- Enabled Initiative owners, Business owners, and stakeholders to transition smoothly from planning to execution with full visibility.
Seamless Migration & Digital Content Empowerment
The organization transitioned from legacy PPM to ServiceNow SPM without any disruption to in-flight demands or projects. In parallel, we introduced a powerful digital content management capability that enabled teams to publish media-rich content directly to the portal, eliminating additional work for IT.
- Executed a seamless migration from legacy PPM to SPM, not only preserving active projects and demands but also integrating them with new SPM capabilities—enhancing PMO efficiency, visibility, and operational cohesion.
- Enabled initiative owners and PMO staff to create and publish dynamic content using flexible, pre-built templates.
- Supported rich media (videos, images, links) and contextual knowledge articles in published updates.
- Removed the dependency on developers or IT for content updates, fostering self-sufficiency and agility across departments.
Outcome Achieved
Through the implementation of ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management by Inspira Systems, the organization realized a fully integrated, data-driven planning ecosystem. The Strategic Planning Workspace provided a centralized and intuitive environment for aligning initiatives with enterprise priorities, while the Project Workspace offered clear visibility into project progress, tasks, and resource capacity. Our custom-built SPM portal further enhances the user experience by enabling real-time collaboration, simplifying intake, and providing guided visibility across multi-year roadmaps. Together, these elements empowered the PMO and business leaders to make faster, smarter decisions, reduce operational friction, and increase organizational alignment—delivering measurable gains in efficiency, governance, and engagement.
Ready to transform your strategic portfolio management? Contact Inspira Systems today to explore how we can help you optimize your initiatives, resources, and business goals with ServiceNow SPM.
