Tag: Resource Management
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Common Spreadsheet Problems and How Email Makes Them Worse
An over-reliance on spreadsheets can cause unnecessary complications within your business. Here are some common avoidable problems.
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Quick Guide: How to Define & Calculate Billable Performance to Target
Services firms have a profound need for business intelligence (BI) to make sense of vast information in order to make profitable decisions. Without this clarity, success is just an illusion. So how do you move from busy to breakthroughs? The following article will discuss one of the five most critical metrics that every services business…
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The Importance of PTO Planning
Learn how poorly-managed paid time off can negatively impact business, and how to properly plan PTO to boost morale and optimize scheduling.
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Essential Elements of Services Success: What is Resource Allocation?
This is the third entry in our “Essential Elements of Services Success” blog series focused on helping professional services organizations strengthen the core of their business processes. Check out the first entry about resource management plans and the second entry assessing resource capacity planning. A great team is nothing without strong resource allocation. It’s the difference…
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Three Trends Driving Resource Management Automation Today
The latest episode of Kantata’s Professional Services Pursuit Podcast features Randy Mysliviec, President and CEO at RTM Consulting and the managing director of the Resource Management Institute (RMI). This episode, hosted by Brent Trimble, focuses on the results of RMI’s survey on Resource Management Automation Tools and Solutions. Brent and Randy dive into the emerging…
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Retaining and Optimizing a High-Performing Services Workforce
This is a guest post from John Ragsdale, distinguished researcher and vice president of technology ecosystems for Technology & Services Industry Association (TSIA). Professional services is a people-intensive business. Through recent years of rapid growth, tech companies have struggled to retain consultants. Hiring has also been a challenge, which has impacted project delivery and created…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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The 5 Benefits of Adopting Work Coordination Software
Read this blog to learn the benefits of Work Coordination Software to optimize resource & project management to drive business success.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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…