Unfortunately, this blog is available in Dutch only.

Unfortunately, this blog is available in Dutch only.

Bizaline has supported bid teams in a wide range of industries to win contracts - often snatching victory from the jaws of defeat. Here's our three essential tips to strengthen your bid management capabilities and become a far stronger competitor.

The head of department of infrastructure projects at the municipalities of Amstelveen and Aalsmeer, tells us about his three most important challenges as a project portfolio manager - and the effective approach he's selected to meet them. 

Hospitals and health care providers are facing a major strategic challenge: the demand for (chronic) care is rapidly increasing, while the capacity to deliver is stagnant. Digital transformation through an OGSM change program will be key to meeting the challenges to come.

The Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma shows how tech companies try to maximize the time and attention we spend on their platforms. E-mail works in much the same way. How do we find the mental space to do creative work in times of constant distraction?

Hospitals and health care providers around the world are facing a massive challenge. The prescription: a major strategic transformation. But change programmes often fail. With Agile OGSM, we can realize a sustainable future for health care.

Getting Things Done, or GTD, is a methodology and productivity framework pioneered by David Allen.  In this blog, we’ll share 5 important lessons from the book to help you beat procrastination and stress.

"In fitness, the gradual adjustment of goals is seen as the best way to get fitter. But in organizations, we see very little of that: goals are rarely adjusted based on new insights or feedback from the work floor."

“You can imagine that our market has changed completely in the past few months. Many of our clients' priorities have shifted radically. Despite that, our OGSM strategic plans have remained unchanged.”

Implementing software can be a psychological challenge. This blog offers keys to overcoming resistance using Krauthammer's model: can they do it? Do they want it? Do they see the point?

We're often too busy solving our everyday problems to focus on long-term strategic planning. That's a problem many of our clients struggle with. This blog offers some tips.

It's obvious that KPIs are important – but they can also be confusing. This list of do’s and don’ts ensures your KPIs contribute to a successful realization of your goals.

Software implementation: time-consuming, always more costly than expected, and not my field of interest. That's what program managers tend to think. Our solution: Reporting as a Service.

“Monitoring lijkt soms een heel technisch verhaal, maar het is ook een manier om jouw verhaal te vertellen. Met enthousiasme. Zo moet je het zien.”

Vesteda was looking for a guideline to help them realise their progressive ambitions concerning sustainability, CSR and governance.

"The added value of monitoring is clear accountability to the City Council. The Goal Tree makes it easy to communicate."

How do I make a good strategy? And how do I execute it? These are questions many people struggle with...

CSR: it's growing in importance for many organisations and their stakeholders and regulators. But the monitoring can be tricky. Three tips for professionalisation.

The second entry in our blog series on contract management: how do you get bidders to keep their commitments? [...]

Our whitepaper on integrated governance of pension funds [...] - available in Dutch only.

Part 1 of our series on contract management: how do we guarantee that bidders adhere to all applicable laws and regulations as well as requirements set? [...]

Agile and self-management methods may look like a solution, but more often than not they fail to result in meaningful lasting change. We suggest strategies to ensure that Agile becomes a success. [...]

Barbara Minto's classic in business communications remains essential reading. And its lessons are still meaningful for organizations today. We've summarized the most important conclusions for you. [...]

KPIs That Work is a book filled to the brim with insights that can help every organisation to analyse their customer value chains, improve their processes, and proactively adjust course to realise long-term strategic goals. [...]

The mayor of Utrecht, Jan van Zanen, festively opened Climate Planet on the 6th of October. Bizaline sponsors this event, as we want to contribute to the realisation of sustainability goals.  [...]

The commitments made in covenants for sustainable entrepeneurship are not nearly concrete enough, the Dutch Social-Economic Council recently announced. Although a great  [...]

We first learned about OGSM through the book Business Plan on 1 A4 by Mark van Eck and Ellen van Zanten. After reading it, we immediately got to work to integrate this systematic [...]

Change management: the term is inescapable today. And not without reason. Our organisations are smack in the middle of a turbulent digital revolution. Those who fail to  [...]

"When we first started using Bizaline, my team was dealing with a uniquely complex programme with many stakeholders to manage. There [...]