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| Mobilising Masses of Moving Resources |
| by Mahendra Gupta |
| It is complicated dealing with large numbers of human resources such as volunteers, members and staff. It involves coordinating people across different locations, especially when they’re moving around for a project such as an election campaign. Resource scheduling software eases the hassle of such operations, and makes it much easier than if one simply uses spreadsheets. |
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| Reducing your risk with the right employee |
| by Mahendra Gupta |
| A big part of employee scheduling is booking the right employees on various assignments and clients. If you book the wrong type of employee on a job, it can have poor outcomes that can create project risk, financial risk and reputation risk. Thus managers should be using good employee scheduling software that has powerful search functionality to minimise all such risks. |
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| The lens that gives you visibility over your resources |
| by Mahendra Gupta |
| A company needs the right lens to be able to search the available resources and find what they’re looking for. Resources should be searchable by location, by their roles and capabilities and based on their duration and available time. |
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| Managing resources globally using planning & scheduling software |
| by Mahendra Gupta |
| Do you have a global business where your employees are located or constantly moving from one part of the world to another? How do you manage them, track their work and their productivity? |
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| Produce Resource Scheduling Reports at the Click of a Mouse |
| by Mahendra Gupta |
| In the 21st century it is important to consider stakeholder value instead of just shareholder value. Stakeholder value can be significantly increased using resource management software. This occurs through improving efficiency and reducing stress amongst managers, increased empowerment amongst staff, improved service and quality products for customers, increased profit for shareholders and less wastage in materials in order to care for the environment. |
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| Enhancing Stakeholder Value with Resource Management Software |
| by Mahendra Gupta |
| In the 21st century it is important to consider stakeholder value instead of just shareholder value. Stakeholder value can be significantly increased using resource management software. This occurs through improving efficiency and reducing stress amongst managers, increased empowerment amongst staff, improved service and quality products for customers, increased profit for shareholders and less wastage in materials in order to care for the environment. |
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| Profit. Profit. Profit – Resource Scheduling that brings profit to your pocket. |
| by Mahendra Gupta |
| An important source of profit that is often overlooked is effective resource scheduling that is only truly realised through the aid of resource scheduling software. Such software prevents companies from employing unnecessary resources, wasting hours scheduling staff and creating reports, and wasting hours in inefficient communication. |
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| Matrix management: Scheduling your resources in a complicated world |
| by Mahendra Gupta |
| Due to the evolving business structures of the 21st century, matrix management has provided a solution to deal it. However matrix management can most successfully be executed when it is supported by resource scheduling software making it simple to book, manage and track staff across multiple managers, projects and divisions. |
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| Resource Management Software should be tailored to your business – not the other way around |
| by Mahendra Gupta |
| A major source of inaccuracy in profit and cost analysis is poor data on the costs and revenues associated with employees. Hence it is critical that companies use powerful resource management software that allows for integrity in the data provided on costs and bookings of workers, and also produces powerful and visually stimulating reports at the click of a button. |
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| New Age Software is the solution to Resource Management Problems |
| Resource management can often become a time consuming and stressful role when it doesn’t need to be. Automated resource scheduling software is an important and powerful solution that can produce instantaneous and powerful reports. One needs to ensure that such software is intelligent, intuitive yet simple. |
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| Plan Your Resources in the Short Term and Long Term |
| Human resources is often the largest expenditure a company makes, hence it is important that they recruit the right type of people and the right number of people. However, the larger and more diverse your company, often the more difficult and less effective this exercise can become. Hence it is important that you use the support of a strong resource scheduling software. |
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| Human resource planning to avoid falling down the resource gap |
| Resourcing gaps cost companies a lot of money, which can be avoided if managers are able to have clear visibility over their future demand and supply of their human resources. Employees are often the largest overhead, hence must be utilised as efficiently as possible. Resource management software is the solution for this management challenge. |
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| Resource Transparency. Data Accuracy. Reporting Integrity. |
| by Mahendra Gupta |
| A major source of inaccuracy in profit and cost analysis is poor data on the costs and revenues associated with employees. Hence it is critical that companies use powerful resource management software that allows for integrity in the data provided on costs and bookings of workers, and also produces powerful and visually stimulating reports at the click of a button. |
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| Booking available staff should be simple |
| by Mahendra Gupta |
| A big part of resource management is booking the right employees on various assignments and clients. It can become messy and time consuming when managers use excel sheets and emails to do the job. Thus managers should be using good resource management software that has powerful booking functionalities to eliminate the wastage of time and effort. |
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| Manage your 'resources' like they matter |
| by Ajay Kumar |
| Management has considers its employees as faceless entities for too long. In today’s corporate world, it is important that companies use proper resource management software that provides information not only on the cost and revenue of a resource, but also their career aspirations, skills, desires and enables a more flexible work life. |
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| Resource Management Software for Improving Workforce Productivity |
| by Ajay Kumar |
| Cost competitiveness created by globalisation is forcing companies around the world to look at various ways of reducing workforce cost. One of the most effective ways is to improve workforce usage and efficiency thru improved resource management. |
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| Improving Employee Productivity Using Employee Scheduling Software |
| by Mahendra Gupta |
| Improving employee productivity adds directly to the bottom line of the organisation. This can be effectively achieved by using special purpose employee scheduling software rather than using conventional spreadsheet, which is cumbersome and inefficient. |
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| Employee Efficiency in the 21st century: Collaborate to Compete |
| by Mahendra Gupta |
| Traditional management theory has focused on efficiency through division of labour and specialising roles. Although this has been successful it has raised inefficiencies due to poor communication between divisions. In the 21st Century we must use management software to enable management to share resources and increase efficiency – hence collaborate to compete. |
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| Peoples Management: The Prince, the Panopticon and the Software Product |
| by Mahendra Gupta |
| Traditional management theory encourages us to believe that workers are inherently motivated by self interest and fear. Although there is some truth in this, we also need to acknowledge the legitimacy in the aspirations and desires of the worker, and realise that they are also motivated by transparency, openness and trust. Finally we need software and tools to help us with this. |
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| Reducing employee costs with the wave of the technological wand |
| by Mahendra Gupta |
| Putting together schedules for your employees, and then tracking the actual work done and cost incurred can become a mammoth job across an organisation and shouldn’t be attempted with spreadsheets or paper, it wastes time and compromises the integrity of any analysis. With the wave of a technological wand, why not use software that does the job for you. |
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| Why you need resource planning software |
| by Mahendra Gupta |
| The quality of your resources impact your company’s performance; their allocation and management impacts productivity; and considering resources are usually a company’s largest overhead, they play a huge role in determining your profitability. Hence, using a good resource planning software is a no brainer. |
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| How to Ensure Effective Human Resource Planning |
| by Mahendra Gupta |
| People are the greatest assets to an organisation, but also one of the largest expenses. Effective human resource planning can be challenging, but it doesn’t have to be if you have a systematic approach to matching the supply and demand of the right people according to your organisation. |
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| Improving Profitability Using Resource Planning & Scheduling Software |
| by Mahendra Gupta |
| To improve overall profitability of the organisation, it is critical to achieve more out of fewer resources as resources are major cost to the organisation. This can be effectively achieved by using special purpose resource planning and scheduling software. |
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| How resource planning and scheduling software can improve employee usage and productivity? |
| by Mahendra Gupta |
| Improving employee usage and productivity can significantly add to the profitability of the organisation and provide competitive edge against its competitors. This can be effectively achieved by using special purpose resource planning and scheduling software |
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| Resource Planning and Scheduling Software for Improving Resource Usage and Efficiency |
| Any improvement in resource usage and efficiency adds directly to the bottom line of the organisation. Achieving it using conventional spreadsheet is cumbersome and inefficient. It requires dedicated resource planning and scheduling software. |
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| Right Tool for Resource Planners and Schedulers |
| by Mahendra Gupta |
| With fast changing business dynamics, resource planning and scheduling using conventional spreadsheet or calendar tool is cumbersome and inefficient. Resource planners/schedulers require more powerful and flexible tool to get best utilisation of their scarce resource in growing competitive market around the world. |
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| NEWS |
| Fujitsu's experience with Saviom |
Imagine. You have over 200 engineers, working across 8 states and territories. Resources have different skills, expertise, preferences and availability, and resources are allocated by shifts in a job. And all this is maintained on a few excel spreadsheets.
This was the challenge faced by Fujitsu, one of Australia’s leading IT and communications companies. We sat down with Ros Johnston, from Fujitsu’s Project Services team, who was in charge of ensuring the implementation of the Saviom System across the country. |
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| Automating your Project Management Process |
| Ever felt that your project management processes and methodology can add to project overhead, delays and cost overrun if not implemented properly? What if it could all be reduced without compromising the effectiveness of the process or methodology? |
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