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ERP In Professional Services organisation (Part 2)

Welcome back to the second instalment of ERP In Professional Services organisation. In the first blog post we looked at top business drivers impacting ERP strategies. This second blog will look more in depth at top strategic actions by leaders and followers. To set the scene: enterprise

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ERP In Professional Services organisation (Part 1)

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is a tool that has been used for years by leading professional services organisations to drive efficiency, reduce cost, provide visibility, encourage collaborative knowledge sharing, streamline business processes and to aid informed decision making. A report by the Aberdeen Group (click here to

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Key Performance Indicators (kpi’s) For Professional Services Organisation

Professional services organisations have their own specific key performance indicators (kpis). With the growing contribution and significance of impacts to the bottom line, it’s never been more important to effectively define the key performance indicators (kpis) that your organisation wishes to track, monitor and report. With an

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The Importance of Real Time Reporting

Real time reporting is an absolute necessity to the professional service industry considering the economic environment that we currently find ourselves in. With ever changing requirements to projects that coincide with the financial challenges of today’s business world, we must start to understand the importance of mission

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Improve Project Success and Profitability by Automating Your Business Processes (Part 3 of 3)

“Within Professional Service Organisations up to 14% of employee time is spent looking for  information” Welcome back to part 3 (of 3) of this series of posts where we will be looking at how automating business processes can improve project profitability in professional services organisations. In part

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Don’t base your project on ‘guesstimates’

Don’t base your project on ‘guesstimates’   “In today’s dark economic climate” if we had a pound for every time we heard this phrase in a broad sheet or red top, you certainly wouldn’t be reading this blog. Yes I can categorically say that this is one

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Improve Project Success and Profitability by Automating Your Business Processes (Part 2 of 3)

Improve Project Success and Profitability by Automating Your Business Processes (Part 2 of 3) “Within Professional Service Organisations up to 14% of employee time is spent looking for information” Welcome back to part 2 (of 3) “Improve Project Success and Profitability by Automating Your Business Processes” where

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Has Your Project ERP/PSA Software Implementation Been A Success?

Has Your Project ERP/PSA Software Implementation Been A Success? I was recently involved in a debate on LinkedIn where the topic was “100% Successful Implementation of Project ERP/PSA Software” and I was taken back by the sheer volume of varied comments on this subject. Due to the

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Acronym Mania: ERP, Project ERP, PSA, CRM, RM, KPI, SRP and more…

Acronym mania – I don’t know about you but I have recently joined the professional realm of ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) and PSA (Professional Service Automation) software, and was blown away by the never ending use of technical acronym jargon. I can remember my first day in

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ERP Solution Checklist –

What to ask before you buy Enterprise Resource Planning Software? Before committing to an ERP system you should first look closely at what your organisation needs and wants to achieve with its ERP strategy. This fact find will help determine which application and what kind of functionality

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