EMEA Blog

It’s official: getting the right talent in place remains the number one priority – and biggest challenge – for agencies. That’s the key finding of our latest global survey of marketing, advertising, and media agency professionals, carried out in partnership with industry bible Campaign.

We spoke to AEC industry leaders Mark Murphy, Managing Director at Fender Katsalidis and Scott Huston, Studio Manager at DesignInc Sydney to learn the key to successful resource management and its effects on their businesses.

With 2022 on the horizon, consulting firms are evaluating their business practices, resetting goals, and retargeting where they want to go. David Hofferberth from Service Performance Insight (SPI) discusses three key practices that firms should focus on heading into the new year to set themselves up for future success.

There is no singular approach or silver bullet to optimize your workforce. Taking a planned, methodical approach while considering what's in the best interest for employees and the company is crucial. Stay flexible, adapt with the market and leverage technology and automation.

Today's agencies are compelled to create a workplace culture that attracts, trains and retains top-tier creative professionals. Learn six critical steps to ensure your organization is ready to bring the best on board.

What makes your most profitable projects such a success? Our latest guide explores how you can identify your most successful and profitable projects and use that information to find similar work.

As Architecture, Engineering and Consulting firms navigated a global pandemic, finance teams stepped up to ensure business stability. We spoke to three CFOs to find out how.

See how an employee-owned project management firm successfully steered its people – and its financial performance – through a period of significant disruption.

Resource management is crucial for A&E and Consulting firms – but few have an effective planning structure in place. Here are three recommendations for getting it right.

For agencies, the need to optimize resource plans and correctly forecast revenue has become even more urgent in recent times.

Looking for ERP tools designed for project-based businesses? Here are the 5 things to look out for that can help improve your resource management.

The recently-released best practice guide to overcoming project and business performance challenges, How Consulting Firms Win – The Definitive Playbook, defines the most common areas consulting firms find competitive gains (project delivery, growth, profitability, and talent) to help your firm put its own successful plays into place. Whether you’ve just downloaded the Playbook, or you downloaded it recently and are having a tough time deciding the first performance area you’d like to tackle first, we would like to offer a few “get started” tips that might help you ease yourself in.

In service and knowledge-based industries such as the AEC industries and Consulting, people are a firm’s most valuable resource. That means effective resource allocation is vital to achieve best-practice outcomes on each and every project.

Best-practice project management relies on three key building blocks, including setting a project baseline to guide the smooth delivery and financial management of successful projects.

In the professional services industry, no two projects are alike and more often than not they are considerably different. In this video you can learn more about how to better manage your project lifecycle

Scope Creep has been identified as one of the biggest factors in the decline of profits in the Marketing and Communications industry. How are you managing it?

Resource planning and management is one of the greatest challenges faced by creative agencies today. Find out why.

Deltek and Click Z recently set out to try to get to the heart the issues troubling global creative agencies as they strive to mark their creative success and grow their businesses. Here are the results.

This is how CFOs should answer the tough questions they face from their CEO

On the surface things seem to be going well - Executive management thinks you’re doing a great job as a resource planner. You’re feeling pretty good at the quarterly operations review until you get the following questions from management...

Managing the complexities of your Agency doesn't have to be daunting - from the daily administrative tasks to resource allocation and utilisation, use these 6 best practices to ensure your success.

Identify the correct time to grow your business using precise, real-time data from your ERP software.

Many agencies still struggle to find the most effective way to manage their projects so that they balance creativity alongside project and finacial control.

Find out how resource planning software can help you effectively plan your resources further in advance and deliver more successful projects.

In this blog, Blair Pringle looks at some of the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead for Engineering firms in 2015

Discover how to increase billable utilisation in a more effective long-term strategy with ERP software.

Learn how to break down silos in business with project software management for Professional Services firms.

Find out how growing businesses with a successful employee lifecycle profile have been using enterprise resource planning software to win the war for talent.

Discover how improving your resources with Enterprise Resource Planning will improve your profits without the need to raise your prices

In step two of our five step guide, find out how you can better utilise capacity planning in your Agency and enable greater profitability

In step one of our 5 step guide, find out how better scheduling and resourcing can enable marketing agencies to improve their profitability

Improve your resource management for increased cost-efficiency and customer satisfaction

Identify over-servicing clients to avoid poor scoping, resourcing and missed milestones.

As a strong managerial candidate, the support of an effective team is vital because it will free up the time and resources you require for initiating growth strategies and driving business success - both of which are the key to getting you noticed in the boardroom.

Capacity planning is one of the biggest challenges faced by Professional Services firms and can often skew the accuracy of forecasting revenue for the coming months, and even worse can lead to undelivered projects, customer dissatisfaction, and even lost clients.

Can resource planning and management tools have an impact on a firms bottom line?

Achieving ROI from an ERP system is an achievable reality. Fergus Gilmore explains how with help from Steve Slade of Buro Four.

Professional Services firms can make a significant impact to their bottom line by asking the right questions about their resource utilisation and process efficiency.

Learn how you can remove inefficiency and unpredictability from your business so that you can turn time spent on unbillable work into time spent on billable work.

How should operations team assign time against projects in uncommon situations? Particularly when your delivery team are travelling often as part of the project?

By improving resource management and staff utilisation, professional service firms can ensure maximum efficiency and profitability

Firms who use Project ERP can improve project management and increase productivity and profits.

Following a recent interview with IDC’s Group Vice President, Michael Fauscette we’ve compiled 6 tips for staying ahead of your competition and growing a profitable Professional Services firm.