Category: Capacity Planning

You have enough projects and people. Yet when you are matching them, the puzzle does not fit together. Worse still, you are paying people for work they are not skilled enough to do and are converting projects that you know you’ll have to hire specially for. In short you have landed in a skill gap…

Overwork has been mistaken as a means or measure of productivity despite its converse effect on real productivity. And, in the context of the Consulting and Auditing industry, it has intertwined with work culture so much so that it has long been accepted as the industry norm.  Naturally, when the industry seeks to reform its…

Here’s an exclusive excerpt from the newly released eBook by Saviom – ‘The Holy Grail of Resource Management: Demand Forecasting and Capacity Planning’. You can download it here for free. Research sponsored by the Project Management Institute (PMI) shows that talent deficiencies significantly hamper 40% of strategy implementation efforts. So, hiring, developing, and retaining the…

The PMO and its methodologies have evolved to encompass a large scheme of processes. Yet, resource requesting process largely remains unstructured. We are all familiar with the endless loop that the staff request process creates. When a requirement arises, the manager in charge gets in touch with the resource manager. The resource manager in turn…

Resource capacity planning is the art of successfully juggling with resource demand and capacity planning. Much to the peril of most managers, it is easier said than done, given the fact that demand shifts are dynamic and data on supply can hardly catch up even when demand positions are quite clear. Within the engineering space,…

Thanks to the far reach of globalization and virtualization, nearly all modern businesses are linked directly or indirectly with global market dynamics. This is true not only for global firms but also for locally-run companies. And never has this been clearer than with the current ripple effects of the recent slowdown in China, a country…

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