StaffingMatters
StaffingMatters is a web application that allows professional services firms to
more effectively manage people and projects. Unlike typical information systems
such as billing or human resources systems, StaffingMatters looks
forward rather than backward, and helps you actively manage the future,
rather than just track the past.
At its core, StaffingMatters allows you to record people, projects, and the staffing of these people on projects. This is done using very informative and interactive graphical screens. For example, the screen shot below shows the Availability Timeline, with the activity of everyone in the group for a four week period, in one glance. There are similar images for individual projects, and for the workload of each individual, colour coded by type of activity.
In addition to providing the partner team with all the right information to manage the
future, StaffingMatters also encourages best-practice project management and project planning,
as evidenced by a detailed plan for each project. Not only is this critical in the context of
delivering the very best client service, but it is also the key to pricing, margin control,
teamwork and the avoidance of write-offs.
StaffingMatters captures the most important operational aspect of your business - how everyone in the firm is likely to be spending their time. StaffingMatters therefore provides you with the key information to enable you to manage:
- How individual matters are staffed, so that clients receive the very best service?
- At the right price to the client?
- And the right profit to the firm?
- Whilst giving your staff the career development opportunities they seek?
- Respecting their work-life balance?
- In the context of the needs of both the firm and the client?
- So optimising, overall, the total capacity of the firm, thereby maximising utilisation - and profit.
StaffingMatters is available by rental on a per-seat basis at a very reasonable price, with training and consulting available as well. Rental includes hosting on our secure server, and application support. Please contact us to arrange a demonstration.