Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

SPI Research has proven that there’s a 7.7x difference in profitability between the most and least mature professional services firms. But nobody’s explained why that divide happens—until now. We surveyed 303 firms across the United Kingdom, United States, Australia, Canada, and beyond to find out. Their answers reveal where most firms are getting stuck. And what the top performers are doing differently.

In today’s digital workplace, information is both a powerful asset and a persistent challenge. Organizations generate more content than ever, yet employees often struggle to find what they need when they need it. Knowledge becomes trapped in disconnected systems. Teams duplicate work because they cannot locate existing documents. Critical insights remain hidden simply because the path to them is too fragmented. Search should bridge these silos.

With hybrid work growing rapidly, tracking, managing, and increasing remote work productivity is the new norm. Businesses must employ the best tools, tips, and strategies for ensuring that distributed teams remain highly engaged, digitally secure, and consistently capable of delivering results Written by: Ashissh Mahaan.

This month, we're turning "what ifs" into reality with new features that cover everything from forecasting pipeline demand, AI-powered custom reports, and giving your in-app working experience a glow-up.

Planning blindspots, delayed approvals, and unreliable time data can stall even the best-planned projects. Our March release addresses these pain points head-on. Now you can assign roles to tasks to forecast resource needs before your project team is confirmed. Trigger instant email alerts for financial document approval requests for a faster turnaround. Plus, new time management improvements will safeguard your data integrity and accuracy at every step.

In the modern product landscape—especially for AI-oriented and fast-moving engineering teams—velocity is the ultimate currency. Developers have flocked to Linear because it is lean, fast, and stays out of the way. However, for Product Managers and Marketing Leaders, execution is only half the battle. To gain a true competitive advantage, you need to ensure that every sprint is actually moving the needle on your long-term business goals.

Project profitability is the financial measure of whether a project generates more revenue than it costs to deliver. It is calculated by subtracting total project costs—both direct and indirect—from total project revenue. A project is profitable when the result is positive; it’s unprofitable when costs exceed what the project earns.

Process improvement is a structured approach to identifying inefficiencies in business workflows and implementing changes that increase efficiency, reduce costs, and improve output quality. It involves analyzing how work currently gets done, finding where time, effort, or resources are wasted, and applying systematic methods to eliminate those inefficiencies.

Kanban is a visual workflow management method that uses boards, columns, and cards to represent work moving through defined stages. Originally developed within Toyota’s manufacturing system in the 1940s, Kanban operates on a pull-based model: new work enters the system only when there is capacity to handle it, preventing overload and maintaining a steady flow of completed tasks.

Every major technology shift follows the same arc: a Cambrian explosion, then consolidation. Divergence always precedes convergence. And when consolidation comes, the organizations that built the right foundation are the ones that benefit from it.