i-lign

i-lign is a software solution offered by i-lign Ltd that aims to assist businesses in managing their projects, programs, and business-as-usual activities. The vendor claims that i-lign provides a platform for tracking progress, managing resources, and aligning work with strategic goals. According to the vendor, i-lign is suitable for businesses of various sizes, from small startups to large enterprises. It is used by professionals in a range of industries including project management, program management, portfolio management, business analysis, IT, engineering and construction, government, finance, and healthcare.

Key Features

Strategy & Purpose: According to the vendor, i-lign offers a framework for bringing together strategies, KPI's, and contributing initiatives to support the execution of strategic plans. It allows users to define high-level organizational purposes, set strategies and KPI's, review progress, and monitor overall strategic alignment through storyboards.

Programmes & Portfolios: i-lign provides configurable options for setting up programs, sub-programs, and portfolios to aggregate information within organizational structures. According to the vendor, users can define programs and sub-programs with additional information such as objectives, benefits, stakeholders, and investment profiles. The platform also supports reporting to mid-management, executives, and boards.

Projects & People: The vendor claims that i-lign offers comprehensive project management capabilities, accommodating projects of any type, size, and complexity. It promotes collaboration and teamwork for project success, and provides a project toolkit that includes tasks, milestones, issues, risks, costs, scheduling, status reviews, and alignment to strategies.

Storyboards & Storytellers: i-lign features interactive storyboards that the vendor states are a powerful tool for communicating organizational narratives across strategy and work. Users can use storyboards as conversation starters and populate them from various parts of the business. The vendor suggests that storyboards offer an alternative approach to static dashboards and historic reporting, encouraging further exploration and conversations.

Investment & Value: According to the vendor, i-lign offers a consolidated framework for managing the overall organizational investment portfolio. It allows businesses to build confidence in investment decisions by launching business cases, executive summaries, and investment profiles. Users can connect supporting documents to business cases, submit them for assessment and ranking, and launch approved projects.

Benefits & Value: i-lign provides a consolidated benefits framework, according to the vendor, and integrates benefits management as a core part of business operations. It emphasizes financial and non-financial benefits as key components of projects and programs, ensuring the entire benefit lifecycle is covered from inception to value realization. The vendor suggests that regular benefit reviews and conversations are facilitated to deliver on the business case.

My Workspace: The vendor claims that i-lign offers individuals the opportunity to work in different ways and collaborate online. It promotes work approaches based on trust, transparency, teamwork, sharing, and collaboration. Users can manage their work, performance, and future in one place, build personal profiles, launch conversations, and share thinking through blogs. The platform also offers dynamic categorization and business intelligence through trending #tags.