Wednesday, October 13th, 2010
A professional services firm’s ability to manage its resources smartly is more critical today than ever before. And even if you have yet to board the train of technological progress that will ensure this improved situation, other professional services firms have—and they’re leaving you at the station.
Strategic Resource Planning
It’s a subject about which Hugo Dorph, executive vice-president and general manager at Deltek Inc., lamented recently in a paper urging corporate professional services brass to consider the subject of resource planning more seriously than they have been.
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Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
Just because something has always been done a certain way doesn’t mean it can’t be done another way. A better way. Particularly if the first way has been knocked to the turf with a one-star rating and a 67% decline in license revenue in the last quarter alone.
Times are high right now and getting higher for Ontario engineers. Finally seeing some of the government funding earmarked for infrastructure trickling into their coffers from the last economic recession, these professionals are presiding over a scene that features more projects, more project management, more accountability for funds. (more…)
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Thursday, August 13th, 2009
The concept of billable hours first drew the attention of the world around the same time nuclear power and Gordie Howe did: in the 1950s. All these years later, we still haven’t got a handle on it.
Technology—surprise, surprise—can automate this process; can help offices be more efficient, productive and profitable; can furnish hungry clients with demonstrable, auditable records of what was done for them, and when; can bypass the typical scene that sees most billables calculations taking place after the fact, rather than during; can help small firms deliver a standard of customer service generally reserved for larger ones.
Here’s How Technology Can Shape Your Billable Hours Business: (more…)
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