It's impossible to deliver projects that enable business growth, on time and on budget, when the resources with the necessary skills are committed to working on other projects or application maintenance activities. Unfortunately, many CIOs, project managers, and resource managers find that their efforts to plan and staff resources are hampered by a lack of real–time visibility into resource availability, as well as an efficient way to coordinate resource requests and approve assignments.
The situation is further complicated by the number of projects that are typically underway at most organizations — and the inability for IT managers to have insight into demands by project, organization or other requirements at their fingertips, so that they can ensure that the highest–priority efforts get priority treatment.
As a result, critical projects that can enable business growth often go begging for internal resources, forcing businesses to fill talent gaps with costly contract personnel. Even if companies manage to avoid that scenario, IT leaders still spend an enormous amount of time and effort on meetings, emails and phone calls to coordinate resource supply and demand — time that could be better dedicated to more strategic tasks. And, at the end of the day, no one is able to measure their performance managing the process of matching resources with critical requests. Without performance metrics, any opportunities to become more efficient at managing high–priced labor resources fall by the wayside.
Innotas offers the first on–demand PPM solution that allows IT leaders, project managers and resource managers to change the game. Innotas' Resource Management capabilities support:
- The ability for IT managers to instantly see real–time resource capacity and demand by project, role, organization or other individually defined fields
- Resource request functions that help automate fulfilling resource assignments
- A single view of resource allocation across the organization
- Reporting capabilities on utilization, capacity, and availability as well as throughput and churn of resource requests
Improving Results
IT leaders must deliver value on multiple fronts. Keeping up with fast–moving project requirements and improving efficiencies around their high–cost talent pool are chief among them.
With sophisticated resource management, IT leaders can meet these goals, and complete projects that enable business growth quickly, efficiently, and at the lowest cost. With real–time visibility into resource supply and demand, managers always know who's doing what and for how long, and they are able to quantify and improve the effectiveness of resource utilization.
Know what you've got and when talent's available.
