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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

A good timesheet management system, most often integrated within a complete ERP, is essential to proper project planning and billing – here’s how to motivate staff to provide the information you need.

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.

One of the biggest resource management challenges faced by Professional Services firms is that it is difficult to predict your future resource needs when looking more than a few months ahead.

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.