Tag: Kantata
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8 Resource Management Mistakes Your Professional Services Company is Probably Making
Resource management is often overlooked & underutilized in professional services companies—but updates can improve productivity & profitability.
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Does Your Agency Have a Process Bottleneck? Here’s How to Find Out
What’s slowing down your company’s projects? It may be a process bottleneck. Learn how to find it and fix it in this helpful guide.
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Retention Strategies for Millennials (& How to Keep Them Happy)
Read this blog to learn how to attract, hire, engage, and retain the Millennial workforce at your business.
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10 Steps to Successful Process Governance
Read this blog to learn 10 steps to help you improve processes management and governance at your organization.
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Why the Professional Services Project Life Cycle Needs More Focus on Collaboration
Project life cycles live and die on good collaboration. Here’s how you can improve your project management strategies through team work.
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4 Crucial Steps to Improve Your Utilization Rates
Follow these 4 steps to improve utilization rates & make the most of your resources and supporting project success.
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What is Project Management Software Used For?
Project management software is used to design a blueprint for your project, track progress, and execute. Here are the top 9 ways to use PM software.
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7 Project Management Tips for Consultants
Learn 7 tips for consultants to improve their project management strategy & increase efficiency, productivity, and profitability.
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The Six Elements of Successful Project Scope Management
Learn six steps to successful project scope management including specific inputs, tools, and techniques to create an effective strategy.
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8 Steps for Practical Program Management Metrics
Read this blog to learn 8 steps for improve program management metrics, performance, profitability, and productivity in your team.
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Why is Managing Resources Important?
Learn more strategic resource management & how companies can create improved outcomes, productivity, and profitability.
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6 Qualities to Look for in Project Management Software
Find out how to determine which project management software is right for your business with the simple guide to 6 important PMS qualities.
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7 Best Practices for Successful Project Management Software Adoption
Read this blog for 7 best practices required to get the ultimate benefits from your project management software.
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How to Increase the Accuracy of Your Project Estimates
Are your project estimates accuracy? Learn how to eliminate critical errors and quickly improve your project profitability with these helpful steps.
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What is the Most Fundamental KPI for Services Businesses?
Find out what Key Performance Indicator (KPI) every services business must absolutely track in order to achieve success.
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The Three I’s of Utilization – How to Boost Individual Performance
Learn how to boost utilization in services today by focusing on these 3 things: the individual, initiative, and incremental Improvement.
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6 Tips for Making Better Data Management Decisions
These 6 steps will help you better prepare for, choose, and implement a data management solution for your services company to maximize success.
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Is Your PMO a Healthy PMO?
Learn how to test your project management office to see its strengths and weaknesses, highlighted by PM thought leader Peter Taylor.
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5 Ways Business Intelligence Can Boost Your Resource Management Skills
Looking to learn more about how Business Intelligence can support your resource management needs? Read the five ways it can help you succeed.
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Three Steps for Effectively Managing Scope Creep
Scope creep is one of the easiest ways for project margins to be eroded. Learn the three steps to keep it in check and stay profitable.
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Is Your Company Working with a Hairball Infrastructure?
Learn how to solve the issues associated with a hairball infrastructure — which is when your backend systems are improperly integrated.
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How to Improve Your Chances of Project Proposal Approval
Learn about the six different types of project proposals and the steps that you can take to increase your chances of client approval.
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What are the Most Critical Project Management Skills?
Read this blog to learn the most essential, in-demand, and expected skills to have as a project manager today.
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Injecting Purpose into an Organization
This blog answers the questions: How do leaders inject a higher purpose & what can be done do to get them more interested in their work?
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5 Tips for Improving Resource Utilization
To maintain the lead in your market, it’s vital to understand the significance of improving resource allocation and utilization rates.
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Change Management Needs a Change
Read this blog to learn how to brace for change at your business — it’s inevitable, and it is much easier when you’re proactive, not reactive.
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Digital Disruption’s Impact on Leadership
Read this blog to learn the which effective leadership skills are critical to managing digital disruption today
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The #1 Challenge in Resource Management (According to the Experts)
Learn what 8 services experts have to say about the most disruptive and top-of-mind resourcing challenges today.
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Adopting a Full-Cycle Resource Management Approach
In Full Cycle Resource Management there are four phases that mirror the project delivery lifecycle from inception to analysis: Estimate, Plan, Deliver, and Analyze & Optimize.
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7 Capacity Planning Steps to Avoid Project Management Nightmares
Check out this blog for a step-by-step guide on how to properly capacity plan as a project manager delivering services.
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Key Takeaways from 30 Popular Project Management Articles
This blog covers key best practices from 30 of the most popular articles on project management available today.
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The 6-Step Guide to Customer-Centric Project Management
Follow these six steps to learn how to approach project management with the customer needs at the forefront.
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Uncovering the Challenges Associated with Managing Contract Workers
Read this blog to learn the challenges associated with managing contract workers in todays remote & global gig economy.
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10 Performance Metrics Examples Project Managers Can’t Afford to Miss
Project managers MUST learn how to leverage key performance indicators (KPIs). Check out these 10 popular performance metrics that you can’t afford to miss.
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The Importance of Culture in Growing Organizations
Establishing a positive company culture can be a major challenge — learn how organizations overcome this roadblock on their path to success.
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How Service Industries Can Develop a Sustainable Competitive Advantage
Learn the considerations and risk factors involved in staying ahead of the competitive in the services industry today.
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Understanding Project Metrics: Total Availability by Month
A key metric your services business is availability vs. project demand. Learn how to calculate total availability by month with this guide!
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The Four Biggest Threats to Profit in Services
Growth isn’t automatically coupled with profits — this blog explains the 4 most common issues associated with profitable project management.
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How to Measure Planned and Actual Utilization Percentages
Do you know the difference between planned and actual utilization? This blog teaches you how to measure both metrics to help drive business.
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How to Measure Project Margin at Completion
Learn how to improve one of the most important metrics in professional services — Project Margin at Completion.
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What is the Definition of A Great SOW?
Check out this blog to learn the true definition of A Statement of Work and how to write an SOW in minutes.
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What is The Resource Management Lifecycle?
This blog defines The Resource Management Lifecycle, a framework meant to handle the complexities of modern services projects.
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Understanding the Four Key Metrics Associated with Project Failure
Read this blog to learn the four key metrics associated with poor project execution or worse — project failure.
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The Five Most Important Factors in Professional Relationships (According to Modern Thought Leaders)
What makes great professional relationships? Thought leaders from Forbes, Entrepreneur, and Chron weigh in on the five most important factors in 2017.
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Project Managers’ Top 10 Tips for Keeping Projects on Time and on Budget
The following tips can ensure your project continues its desired trajectory, and finishes on time and on budget (every project managers goal!).
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A First Look Inside The Resource Management Lifecycle Model
Learn how the Resource Management Lifecycle helps solve some of the most common resource management challenges today.
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Ten Incredibly Easy Things to Do To Deliver the Best Customer Service for Clients
Follow these ten tips from experts to learn how to put your customers first and put humanity back in transactions.
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A Day in the Life of a Project Manager
A day in the life of a project manager might not be what you expect. Here’s the surprising and inspiring truth about how PMs spend their days.
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Using Analytics for Project Management
Using analytics can help project managers handle complex projects and keep them on-schedule and on-budget.
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Why Resource Managers Are the Unsung Heroes of a Services Business
By Mark Robinson People often ask what is the most important role in a professional services business. Is it the business development team who win the big deals or the marketing people who find many of those deals in the first place? Perhaps it is the consultants in the field who deliver successful projects and…