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Posts Tagged ‘Professional Services’
Thursday, February 24th, 2011
 WorkBook Software A/S and 360 Visibility Inc. announces their partnership for the distribution and sales of the WorkBook suite of products to profess ional services organizations in North America.
360 WorkBook will be made available to the Professional Services market in North America on a pure SaaS model. (more…)
Tags: 360 WorkBook, Cloud Computing, Microsoft technology, Professional Services, SaaS
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Thursday, February 17th, 2011
 What a pleasure it is when a pursuit of particulars ends positively. Such has been the outcome of 360’s lengthy search for a comprehensive, cloud-accessed, project management solution for professional services firms that makes as much sense for the lower end of the market as it does for those organizations with many more users.
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Tags: 360 WorkBook, Advertising Agency, Cloud Computing, Professional Services, Software as a Service (SaaS), WorkBook
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Thursday, February 10th, 2011
 When is a law office not a law office? Only when the person making the pronouncement is too close-minded to acknowledge how the parameters of what defines a modern professional services firm have evolved.
The virtual law office is an entirely legitimate incarnation of the bricks-and-mortar standard. (more…)
Tags: Enterprise Software, Professional Services, server virtualization, Software as a Service (SaaS)
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Wednesday, February 9th, 2011
Last week’s Blizzard that Never Was in Toronto may have caught some of us with our snowpants down, but well-fortified property managers suffered no such shock.
The coolest property management technology, along with the clever execution and oversight of same, is capable of handling all things, including cold-weather combat. (more…)
Tags: lease revenues, processing maintenance requests, Professional Services, Property Management, property managers, resident turnover
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Wednesday, January 5th, 2011
 Planning is everything. It’s thanks to its clever application, after all, a fella can save for the Varadero beach eight months before his travel date, cut a square of wrapping paper precisely-sized for the remote-control helicopter it will envelop and prepare just enough lasagna for the expected guest list of stomachs.
In early 2010, Aberdeen Group tried to understand just how well prepared project-focused organizations are to manage and execute their projects. The results of the survey that followed were sobering. (more…)
Tags: billable hours, Professional Services, project management, resource management
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Monday, November 1st, 2010
 I am honoured and thrilled to once again be singled out by Profit magazine and its Canada’s Top 100 Women Entrepreneurs list. For the fourth year running, I take a place on this annual inventory in the esteemed company of 99 other Canadian women who are making a mark in their fields. (more…)
Tags: careers, CTO, Information Technology, Professional Services
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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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Tags: 360 WorkBook, Advertising Agency, Professional Services, Public Relations, Resource Planning
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Monday, September 20th, 2010
Project-based businesses are under more pressure than ever to turn profits from inside cleverly organized and efficiently managed operations. All due to:
- The hammering effects of the economy.
- A diminishing pool of effective human resources.
- Complex new challenges in managing both customer-facing and back-office processes.
- An increasingly global level of stand-up competition.
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Tags: Advertising Agency, Professional Services, project management, Project Profitability, Public Relations
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Tuesday, September 14th, 2010
More than ever, management consulting firms must better focus their efforts on managing projects for profitability — or be content doing without profits altogether, cautions a report issued recently by the Aberdeen Group. (more…)
Tags: Enterprise Software, Professional Services, projects on budget, projects on time
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Monday, August 30th, 2010
 A recent report from the Aberdeen Group, a Boston-situated provider of fact-based business research for corporations and individuals, suggests that project-based businesses—including engineering firms—could benefit dramatically from the adoption of both enterprise-level project management tools and the mindset to put them to effective use. (more…)
Tags: engineering firms, Enterprise Software, PM tools, Professional Services, project management, project scheduling
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