Tag: Kantata
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Kantata Volunteer Series: Supporting and Enabling Children in Need
John Breul, Kantata’s VP of Alliances, explains what he has learned from long-term involvement in volunteering with educational charities.
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Do You Have What It Takes to Attract The Talent You Need?
It’s no secret that contract workers have become more important than ever, especially in the world of professional services. More projects, higher client demands, and new types of services mean that today’s organizations must absolutely use freelancers to supplement their full-time workforce. But simply finding a single freelancer for a large-scale project with high demands…
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Why It’s Time to Embrace Change Management in Professional Services
By Moira Alexander, founder of PMWorld 360 Magazine and Lead-Her-Ship Group Between 2020 and 2030, job growth in areas such as change management is expected to grow 14% faster than the average profession. Why? Because we’re in times of major change for many industries and agencies, with the speed of change increasing, not least due…
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3 Ways to Successfully Balance Your Full-Time and Freelance Workers
In today’s work environment, building the best team with the capabilities to successfully deliver project-based work usually requires a combination of full-time and freelance workers. Capacity planning during the estimation phase of forecasting is always challenging, but you can set up your workforce for success by optimizing the differences between these two types of workers.…
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Being Outcome-Centric: Ensuring End of Project Success
By Peter Taylor, international keynote speaker, author of “The Lazy Project Manager.” This is the final part in a three-part blog series on the journey of a successful project. Read the first part on building a great project foundation here and the second part on harnessing the power of your project team here. Successful project…
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Keep Your Project Strong During Execution: Harnessing the Power of Your Project Team
By Peter Taylor, international keynote speaker, author of “The Lazy Project Manager.” This is the second part in a three-part blog series on the journey of a successful project. Read the first part on building a great project foundation here. The Lazy Project Manager’s Theory of Projects is: “All projects are thick at one end,…
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The Art of Building a Great Project Foundation: 2 Critical Areas Every Project Needs At Its Start
By Peter Taylor, international keynote speaker, author of “The Lazy Project Manager.” This is the first part in a three-part blog series on the journey of a successful project. There is a well-known project maxim that says, “Projects don’t fail at the end. They fail at the beginning.” Failure at the beginning is just harder…
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The Increasing Importance of Collaboration Across a Distributed Workforce
Environmental factors originally jump started the work-from-home revolution, but current research suggests the distributed workforce model is here to stay. Some estimates claim that at least 70% of employees don’t believe going into the office is necessary. Flexibility, less travel time, and reduced office costs are just a few of the perks of having a…
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Service Science: The Missing Ingredient in Your Services Firm’s Strategy
The global services industry is in the midst of massive growth and evolution, with companies expanding their services and radically changing the way they do business. However, many organizations and the software solutions they depend on have failed to evolve to support their changing needs. Legacy systems and inadequate tools that simply can’t keep up…
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Do You Have What it Takes to Scale Your Professional Services Business?
Growth is the hallmark measure of success for all organizations, but scaling your professional services business is difficult. The following are critical elements for every professional services firm that is looking to successfully scale.
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4 Resource Management Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them
The five pitfalls that should be considered when assessing the need to fine tune your resource management strategies and aligned with today’s tools and best practices.
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The 5 Biggest Resource Management Challenges At Your Agency: Overcome or Fall Behind
Now more than ever, agencies need to be at the top of their game to be profitable and scale their success. These are the 5 biggest challenges agencies need to beat today to succeed.
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Kantata Professional Services Cloud – What is it and Why Do You Need It?
The increasingly complex, fast-paced world of professional services needs a new technology solution. Find out about the Mavenlink Kantata Professional Services Cloud and what it can do for you.
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The Unified Data Model and Its Superpowers in Resource Management
Mavenlink and Enterprise Times have partnered to break down the tenets of a Unified Data Model and its implementation into a company with a new whitepaper, “The Importance of a Unified Data Model in Resource Management.”
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Resource Skills Development – How to Organically Grow Your Team
To stay successful and be prepared for future demands, today’s companies must turn to resource skills development as an organic means of growing their teams. With the right strategy, your organization can steadily grow stronger and have greater abilities to tap for a constantly changing future.
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Kantata Volunteer Series: Ensuring Students Are Set up For Success
This blog series highlights some of the great volunteer work Kimble employees are doing around the world. This month, we hear from Tarsem Chana
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Are Your Clients Unhappy? Look for These Signs
To keep your clients happy and on board, keep an eye out for these red flags—they’re good indicators that your clients are not satisfied and may turn over.
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Becoming a Resource Manager – A Firsthand Account of My Path to Success
Read this blog to hear from Jordan Boemer how you can find success in your career path as a resource manager.
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Make Every Minute Count: Why Time Tracking Still Matters
When it comes to time management, companies in the services industry need to strike a balance between oversight and insight. Understanding the value of time tracking and how to manage it in a positive way will help your services company stay ahead and build even greater success.
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How Data Science Training Gives Project Managers an Edge
Successful project management requires data insights—now more than ever before. While today’s project management solutions deliver automated insights during planning and review, being the project manager of tomorrow calls for strong data science skills.
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Why You Should Invest in Employee Mental Health
What your employees need for their mental health in a post-COVID work environment. Learn more about how to support for workforce today.
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The Critical Role of Sales Engineering in Product Success
Learn 3 critical roles that sales engineers should play in the long-term success of a product at your services organization.
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4 Steps to Optimize Resource Scheduling for Agencies
Creating a well-balanced, healthy, and profitable workload for your team can be done without major changes to team composition with these four steps.
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Online Collaboration in 2021: Evolution or Revolution?
By looking at how online collaboration will change in 2021, you can make informed decisions on how you collaborate today and in the coming years.
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Microskills – Are You Letting Talent Go to Waste?
Understand the depth and value of microskills and how to best tap into what is already available within your company to quickly expand the capabilities of your team.
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The Essential Elements of a Project Timeline
Learn about the major elements of a project timeline for effective project planning and on-time process execution.
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How to Create a Project Budget That Works
Every successful services business has a deep understanding of project budgets. The following steps will help project managers and financial teams make tweaks to their processes to create project budgets that work.
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5 Steps to Measure Your Project Outcomes
Find out how to understand the true long-term impact of your projects in this excerpt from our new ebook on outcomes engineering strategies.
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Project Integration Management for Services Teams: Importance, Steps, and Best Practices
Learn how project integration management can improve communication and collaboration between project managers and the resources they manage.
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5 Elements Every Project Proposal Should Include
Read this blog to learn the five key that every project proposal should include when delivering services successfully.
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8 Tips for Estimating Resources in Project Management
Learn 8 tips for calculating resources specifically for project managers looking to improve profits and services delivery.
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What Are the 4 Phases of the Project Management Lifecycle?
The four stages of the project management lifecycle are initiation, planning, execution, and termination. Read more on each stage.
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3 Types of Project Management Goals to Improve Success
Learn the 3 types of project management goals every PM should implement in their strategy and projects to increase success in their company.
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4 Qualities of an Effective Resource Management System
Learn the 4 key capabilities of an effective resource management software system & how it can improve business performance.
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Why is Hybrid Project Management Right for Your Business?
Read this blog to learn the hybrid approach to project management — the best of both Agile and traditional methodologies & how to utilize it.
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7 Steps to Create a Resource Management Plan
7 steps for creating and presenting a resource management plan, and 5 tips for making your resource management plan more effective.
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9 Reasons Why Resource Management is Important
Learn why resource management is important for dictating the timeline of the project, profitability, and overall success.
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5 Telltale Signs of Employee Burnout
Every manager should be on the lookout for signs of employee burnout to prevent high turnover rates. The following are five common signs of employee burnout to watch out for at your organization.
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What are the Objectives of Resource Management?
Read this blog to learn which resource management objectives are key to not services profitability and project success.
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What Should a Project Proposal Include?
Learn how to write the ultimate project proposal and ensure customer satisfaction and successful delivery at your business
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How to Improve Customer Experience Through the Five C’s – Part 2
Learn how collaboration, efficiency, and company-wide adoption can help your business improve customer experiences for greater project success.
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Waterfall vs. Agile Project Management: Pros & Cons
Waterfall project management is most successful in predictable environments, while agile is better for flexible environments. Here are their pros & cons.
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Why is the Project Lifecycle Important?
Learn why the project lifecycle is important to establish the steps to complete a project that maintain progression, momentum, and priority.
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7 Common Consulting Firm Project Management Challenges
Learn the 7 most common project management challenges experienced by many consulting firms & how to overcome them
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10 Quick Ways to Boost Your Agency’s Productivity
Looking to improve your agency’s productivity rates? Here are 10 easy ways to boost productivity for greater success.
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How to Improve Customer Experience Through the Five C’s – Part 1
Learn how to improve your client experience with a focus on: Communication, Consistency, Collaboration, Company-Wide Adoption, & Efficiency
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4 Signs of Underutilized Resources (And How to Course Correct)
Look for these four signs of underutilized resources to start strengthening resource management strategies at your business
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What Are the 4 Most Common Challenges for a Scaling IT Services Organization?
Learn how to overcome challenges including building departments, changing management structure and more IT services scaling complications at your business.
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4 Easy Ways to Reduce Employee Turnover at Your Agency
Keep employee turnover rates low at your agency for greater success through these four tips that can improve employee satisfaction and loyalty.
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8 Tips for Writing a Project Proposal
Check out 8 tips for writing a project proposal to help you close more deals, improve profitability, & manage your projects more effectively.