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- Right Tool for Resource Planners and Schedulers - by Submitted on Jan 02, 2013 from Mahendra GuptaWith ever growing competition in the global market, it has become critical for organisations to manage and utilise scarce resources more efficiently and smartly. Any improvement in resource utilisation adds directly to the bottom line of the organisation and provides required competitive edge ...
Views: 768(1 vote) - How resource planning and scheduling software can improve employee usage and productivity? - by Submitted on Jan 01, 2013 from Mahendra GuptaImproving employee usage and productivity can significantly add to the profitability of the organisation and provide competitive edge against its competitors. One of the effective ways to achieve this improvement is to assign right type of work to the right person at the right time across the ...
Views: 779(1 vote) - How to Ensure Effective Human Resource Planning - by Submitted on Dec 31, 2012 from Mahendra GuptaPeople are indeed the greatest assets to an organisation; they are the foundation, but also one of the largest expenses. Thus it is critical that an organisation ensures that these human assets are properly utilised before going ahead and hiring new staff. However, when you have hundreds of ...
Views: 3319(1 vote) - Improving Profitability Using Resource Planning & Scheduling Software - by Submitted on Dec 31, 2012 from Mahendra GuptaTo improve overall profitability of the organisation, it is critical to achieve more out of fewer resources as resources are major cost to the organisation. In other words it is important to maximise the utilisation of your existing resources. This becomes further crucial in case of human ...
Views: 815(1 vote) - Booking available staff should be simple - by Submitted on Jan 10, 2013 from Mahendra GuptaIf you spend a lot of time speaking to resource and project managers, you will notice that they often complain about how much of their time is taken up finding available staff and booking them. They will spend time going back and forth, through their excel sheets, and liaising with other ...
Views: 672 - Consultancy firms in need of Resource Scheduling Solution - by Submitted on Jul 26, 2012 from Mahendra GuptaHuman resources are the largest expenditures consulting companies have to make; hence it is important that they use them efficiently and get best value out of them. However, the larger and more diverse the company, often the more difficult and less effective this exercise will become. This issue ...
Views: 793 - Employee Efficiency in the 21st century Collaborate to Compete - by Submitted on Nov 06, 2012 from Mahendra GuptaTraditionally management theory has suggested that to increase the efficiency of our companies we need a division of labour. An organisation would be able to increase efficiency and therefore lower prices and gain competitiveness is in the market. Furthermore, that work needed to be divided ...
Views: 692 - Enhancing Stakeholder Value with Resource Management Software - by Submitted on Oct 08, 2012 from Mahendra GuptaTraditionally businesses have always considered how to maximise shareholder value, and maximise their bottom line – their profit. However business in the 21st century has begun to evolve, with company’s looking at maximising stakeholder value, not just shareholder value. Businesses have begun to ...
Views: 1106 - How to Best Utilize IT Resources Using Resource Scheduling Software - by Submitted on Nov 12, 2012 from Mahendra GuptaHave you ever noticed that majority of the IT resources in your company are underutilized? Quite obviously, if you check back on them you will notice that most of the time and money is ineffectively spent on various departments of the organization. When you receive bulk software projects from ...
Views: 822 - How to Best Utilize Your Consultants Using Resource Scheduling Software - by Submitted on Nov 16, 2012 from Mahendra GuptaEver wondered how much time is being spent in resource scheduling for your consultancy? You will be amazed to find out that most of the time and energy is spent in managing your human resource pool. Ask your resource manager and you will realize that this kind of planning is not an easy task and ...
Views: 845 - How to Get the Best Value Out of Accountants and Auditors Using Resource Management Software - by Submitted on Dec 05, 2012 from Mahendra GuptaYou may have a large pool of accountants and auditors in your consultancy but how many of them are utilized properly? If you measure everybody's role and their contribution towards the organization, then you will probably realize that most of them are underutilized. A huge part of the company’s ...
Views: 678 - How to Get the Best Value Out of Engineers Using Resource Scheduling Software - by Submitted on Dec 12, 2012 from Mahendra GuptaFor any organization resources are the vital variable. You can save tremendously if you can maximize the human resource and this is true for any organization. You will be amazed to know that it takes remarkable amount of time and energy to manage the human resource which is why, it is best to ...
Views: 744 - How to reduce your resourcing costs for your projects - by Submitted on Feb 27, 2013 from Mahendra GuptaWhen a part of a firm that employs more than 300 resources, who are spread out in Sydney, New York, London, Mumbai and Hong Kong, you know that it will be more than difficult to minimise your resourcing costs while maintaining high levels of efficiency. For example, you are a project manager ...
Views: 896 - Improving Employee Productivity Using Employee Scheduling Software - by Submitted on Nov 08, 2012 from Mahendra GuptaAn employee being usually a company’s largest overhead; they play a huge role in determining overall company profitability. So any improvement in employee productivity adds directly to the bottom line of the organisation. It requires dedicated employee scheduling software, which is specially ...
Views: 1101 - Improving Public Sector Efficiency Using Resource Scheduling Software - by Submitted on Sep 15, 2012 from Mahendra GuptaWith pressures on the rise in the public sector, maintaining efficiency is more challenging than ever. Budgetary limitations, resource management issues and poor communication are among the main culprits in creating problems. The question is: how can resources be managed efficiently while ...
Views: 783 - Increasing organizational efficiency with Resource Scheduling Solutions - by Submitted on Sep 12, 2012 from Mahendra GuptaWith the gradual passage of time, many small businesses turn out to be more expanded ventures. With higher conversions and more profits, greater responsibility and challenges are also the part of the parcel. It is easy enough to understand that as any organisation grows, it faces more and more ...
Views: 789 - IT Workforce – Improving Efficiency & Usage Using Resource Scheduling Tool - by Submitted on Sep 22, 2012 from Mahendra GuptaIT Teams and companies are often faced with similar resource management challenges whether they are sitting in San Francisco or Bangalore, so why do they struggle to effectively address it? Let’s first identify the challenges and then explore how they can address it and why they struggle to ...
Views: 689 - Managing resources globally using planning & scheduling software - by Submitted on Oct 08, 2012 from Mahendra GuptaDo 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? Regardless of whether a company’s staffs are global or local, a company needs to know where they are, ...
Views: 1026 - Matrix management: Scheduling your resources in a complicated world - by Submitted on Oct 11, 2012 from Mahendra GuptaIs Matrix Management a complicated word? Or is matrix management a simple word in a complicated world? Matrix management has been created to simplify management in the companies of the 21st century. Despite many businesses implementing such management, its true benefits are only realised when ...
Views: 754 - Mobilising masses of moving resources - by Submitted on Oct 12, 2012 from Mahendra GuptaIt is complicated dealing with large numbers of human resources and coordinating them across different locations, especially when they’re moving around. It remains complicated even if you have spreadsheets and tables to support you. What’s the alternative? Ideally when coordinating large numbers ...
Views: 675 - Peoples Management: The Prince, the Panopticon and the Software Product - by Submitted on Nov 16, 2012 from Mahendra GuptaPerspective 1: You’re a senior manager: you want to be able to delegate work at a high level, know who is working on what, and most importantly, make sure that your employees are working hard with top levels of productivity. Especially when you work long days, the most frustrating thing is a ...
Views: 838 - Produce Resource Scheduling Reports at the Click of a Mouse - by Submitted on Oct 08, 2012 from Mahendra GuptaReporting is an important part of a business’s operations, as it aids decision making, the minimising of costs, maximising of revenue, having an overall understanding of the business and for external reporting and accountability. When you are a resource manager, producing reports is an ...
Views: 907 - Profit. Profit. Profit – Resource Scheduling that brings profit to your pocket. - by Submitted on Oct 12, 2012 from Mahendra GuptaMost companies want to maximise their profit. They will often consider cutting staff, working staff harder, entering a new market, increasing advertising, amongst other things. However, companies often forget the importance of effective resource scheduling, because staff are usually the largest ...
Views: 798 - Reducing employee costs with the wave of the technological wand - by Submitted on Jan 08, 2013 from Mahendra GuptaI remember the days where I would be at work one afternoon, up to my neck in work and I would get a phone call. On the other line would be my boss telling me that the senior management was holding a meeting in a few hours about how they can cut company costs, and wanted me to be there to give ...
Views: 688 - Reducing your risk with the right employee - by Submitted on Sep 22, 2012 from Mahendra GuptaHow can an employee create risk? How can you reduce that risk? A risk is the potential that a chosen action or activity will lead to a loss or an undesirable outcome, which in the case of a business can be financial risk, project risk and reputational risk. Therefore by choosing and trusting ...
Views: 711 - Resource Management Software should be tailored to your business – not the other way around - by Submitted on Oct 11, 2012 from Mahendra GuptaSoftware solutions have a tendency to promote how useful they are and highlight all their benefits; however one never knows the challenges they will face from their new software. One common problem many companies face is, despite all that is promised, the design of a lot of software suits only a ...
Views: 735 - Resource Management Tool an Essential Step for the Mining Industry - by Submitted on Jul 26, 2012 from Mahendra GuptaOver the last two decades the mining sector has become a crucial industry for the growing world economy. With mining extraction companies viewed as the core players of this industry, mining consultancy groups and field servicing groups have also expanded considerably, providing immeasurable ...
Views: 909 - Resource Planning and Scheduling breakthrough for the Accounting Sector - by Submitted on Sep 21, 2012 from Mahendra GuptaMany accounting and auditing firms seek to maximise revenue through venturing into new investments, hiring new resources and adapting to the latest technology. While these methods can increase your revenue, they increase the company’s expense sheet as well. However a more cost effective method ...
Views: 689 - Resource planning solutions for the engineering sector - by Submitted on Sep 21, 2012 from Mahendra GuptaResource and project managers spend a great deal of time in communicating the need and availability of engineers suitable for their project work. Days will be wasted moving back and forth with resource managers searching through existing excel sheets and interacting with other managers and ...
Views: 718 - Resource Scheduling Software a New Step Forward for the IT Sector - by Submitted on Sep 21, 2012 from Mahendra GuptaImagine you are the IT resource coordinator of a multinational corporation. You need to find the right set of resources for a critical project, which under any circumstance has to be delivered on time. More than 60 IT related projects are conducted at any given time and nearly 800 employees are ...
Views: 705 - Resource Scheduling Solutions for Mining Consultancy Industry - by Submitted on Sep 12, 2012 from Mahendra GuptaWith a boom in world demand for mining resources, mining extraction companies are growing larger and larger while watching the profits flow in. As mining extraction companies are seen as the main players within the mining sector, the mining consultancy industry has resultantly seen huge ...
Views: 833 - Resource Transparency. Data Accuracy. Reporting Integrity. - by Submitted on Oct 17, 2012 from Mahendra GuptaIn the wake of the global financial crisis, one of the big reminders has been that we need honest and transparent information. Businesses need to become transparent with their shareholders, employees and stakeholders at large about what is happening in their business, and what the true costs and ...
Views: 884 - The lens that gives you visibility over your resources - by Submitted on Sep 22, 2012 from Mahendra GuptaImagine – you are stressed out, your clothes are lying around your house, the dishes are dirty and you can’t find your spectacles. It is frustrating to have everything in a mess, making it hard to get things done, but the fact that your key instrument – your spectacles – are absent, means that ...
Views: 726 - Why you need resource planning software - by Submitted on Jan 04, 2013 from Mahendra GuptaAre you interested in Profitability? Productivity? Performance? Well guess what, all three of them depend on your resources. The quality of your resources impact your company’s performance; their allocation and management impacts productivity; and considering resources are usually a company’s ...
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