This changes everything: Work Management for Enterprise explained

This changes everything: Work Management for Enterprise explained

Nothing slows growth faster than chasing updates, redoing work, or having no clue who’s at capacity. For enterprise-sized companies, this is a living nightmare.

That’s where monday.com’s new Work Management for Enterprise steps in. Or, rather, flies in like the superman of enterprise automation tools.

This scalable work management platform is monday.com’s latest roll-out, and (spoiler alert) we love it. It’s built to give large businesses true control over complex operations, with features that go far beyond standard monday.com portfolio boards. 

Let’s have a look.

What is Work Management for Enterprise?

It’s a new monday.com Enterprise feature that helps large businesses plan, execute and oversee work without fragmented data or manual catch-ups.

In short, it’s monday.com on steroids.

monday’s Enterprise tier was already known for its flexibility. It’s a powerful way to visualise work across teams, automate processes, and build systems tailored to your needs. 

But the launch of Work Management for Enterprise elevates that even further, with enterprise-ready project tools designed to handle multi-project programs, detailed resource management, and portfolio-level oversight.

How it transforms enterprise workflows (and why it matters)

Before we jump into the features, let’s put this into context.

At Kick Consulting, we work with organisations running 30–40 active boards at any given time. Before, their teams were jumping between project spaces, piecing together updates from email trails and spreadsheets just to figure out who was doing what.

Sure, features like My Work give an individual task view (which is perfect for small to mid-size businesses). But once you scale up, you need more than simple columns for task names and due dates. 

For one client, we pulled everything into a single Internal Task Board (their one source of truth). From there, using filtered views, grouped responsibilities and advanced permissions, their entire team could see appropriate workloads and exactly where every task came from—without having to jump between 40 different boards every few seconds.

That’s the difference monday.com Enterprise features now double down on: fewer bottlenecks, cleaner data, easier oversight.

The new monday.com features for enterprise that change the game

There are several exciting features within Work Management for Enterprise, with a few big ones stealing the spotlight for us: portfolio management, resource management, and managed templates.

1. Portfolio management with automated risk insights

monday.com’s new Portfolio Management solution takes all your project data and consolidates it into one intuitive dashboard. Even better, AI Risk Insights scans every connected project, update and email, and flags issues before they become disasters.

Instead of spending hours combing through updates, your PMO can log in and see exactly which projects need intervention today. Cut the fat and mitigate the risks before they have a chance to get, well… risky!

2. Resource management (including a Directory & Capacity Management tool)

This is big. With the resource management feature, you can manage all your people in a single, account-wide Resource Directory. Tag roles, skills, locations, and anything else that matters, then feed this into the Capacity Manager or Resource Planner to balance workloads.

• Each board has its own Resource Planner, which is a hypothetical. 

• You can add roles to a board, allocate hours to staff, and essentially plan a full timeline for each project in a clearly mapped visual dashboard. 

• These Resource Planners then roll into the overarching Capacity Manager, giving you a combined visual representation of how full (or free) team members are.

Large enterprises with long-running programs will love this as it helps avoid over-committing resources and plan new phases with confidence. 

But for fast-moving, small-to-medium-sized businesses, we don’t recommend this option. It’s too much work for smaller teams, so stick to a real-time workload widget in a consolidated overarching dashboard. 

Tip: Not sure whether you need enterprise features? Check out our guide on monday.com Pro vs Enterprise to find your perfect fit.

3. Managed templates

With Managed Templates, you can create master boards or entire workspaces. Any updates to the template cascade down to all linked boards automatically. 

So, instead of building the same process over and over, you can turn any workspace or board into a master template. From there, every new workflow created from this Managed Template, called a “template instance”, remains linked back to the original.

What makes it so powerful is that whenever you update the master template (like adding a new column or changing statuses), those changes can be published instantly to all connected boards across your organisation. You can set up automations to customise this, too. 

It’s the simplest way to keep hundreds of projects aligned without having to chase down manual updates.

4. Cross-project dependencies

Forget static Gantt charts. With cross-project dependencies, you can link tasks across multiple boards so you see exactly how different projects connect. If a task in Project A slips, you’ll see the impact on Projects B and C. 

This function makes enterprise project management visual, and it means fewer unwelcome surprises down the line.

Who is monday.com Work Management for Enterprise built for?

This suite is squarely aimed at large and scaling organisations with around 250+ employees who need a platform robust enough to keep entire departments aligned. 

• Heads of Operations or PMOs needing consistent, cross-project visibility.

• IT teams rolling out large programs across multiple regions.

• Construction and professional services balancing dozens of parallel client jobs.

• Marketing agencies or consultants standardising delivery across hundreds of active accounts.

If you’re managing complex programs and need to cut down the time lost to chasing updates or juggling manual dashboards, these new monday.com enterprise features are built for you.

If you’re in a smaller to mid-size phase of your business, this might not be something you need just yet.

Ready to see how enterprise work management could transform your business?

If your operations have outgrown cobbled-together solutions, it might be time for a real enterprise-ready project tool. 

At Kick Consulting, we’ll help you roll out the right mix of portfolio dashboards, resource directories, AI risk tools and managed templates, so your teams are moving in the same direction.

Want to explore what these new monday.com enterprise features could do for your business? Book a free consult and let’s map it out.