Progressus

MARCH 27, 2024

The March release features improvements in Expense and Resource, further enhancing our commitment to efficiency and user experience. The Progressus Advanced Projects 11.4.1.22 release is now available, featuring a variety of enhancements aimed at expanding the robust functionality for professional services and project-based businesses.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 7, 2023

This article will explore some of the most notable examples of AI in consulting, including its use in market research, strategy development, and operational optimisation. This can help consultants to identify key market trends, develop more accurate market research reports, and craft more effective marketing strategies.

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Business Consulting Agency

MAY 15, 2023

By analyzing revenue streams, cost structures, and operational inefficiencies, consultants can recommend strategies to streamline financial management, reduce expenses, and maximize profit margins. Cost Management and Efficiency Efficient cost management is essential for improving profitability.

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Business Consulting Agency

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Online Retail Revolution E-commerce Growth : Online retail has witnessed exponential growth, accounting for a substantial portion of total retail sales. In 2021, US e-commerce sales surged to $933.3 of total retail sales in 2021, reflecting a steady uptrend in consumer preference for digital transactions.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Even so, many project-driven organizations still operate with a bevy of spreadsheets in a siloed environment. Many project-driven organizations are finding that they can operate much more efficiently with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software. Accelerate operational impact.

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Business Consulting Agency

MAY 19, 2023

Operational Efficiency and Process Improvement Streamlining operations and improving efficiency is essential for businesses to thrive. A report by Aberdeen Group found that companies working with consultants achieved a 28% improvement in operational efficiency. This results in a lack of growth.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Factors impacting profit margins include the tendency to allocate 80% of project work with the last 20% of the budget, inaccurate time-sheet reporting, underbidding during the sales process, and client disputes. Measuring utilization informs decisions regarding hiring, outsourcing, skill development, and workload distribution.

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1 to 1

AUGUST 9, 2021

That’s why it’s critical to keep both front and back office operations running smoothly and effectively. Yet, in many businesses, there is often some overlap and confusion over what defines the roles of a front office and back office, making it difficult to prioritize an area for greater efficiency and productivity. Learn more.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

For those companies, project accounting is one component of several operational mechanisms used in controlling projects, maximizing project profitability, and ensuring customer satisfaction. This also mandates generating project reports outside of the ERP solution’s report writer.

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BCG

MAY 9, 2016

BCG’s Retail-Banking Excellence benchmarking study (REBEX) profiles the operational and digital practices and performance of 20 of the world’s leading retail banks, a group of 40 institutions chosen for their size and the strength of their capabilities. At the heart of the benchmarking are core operational metrics.

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Business Consulting Agency

JANUARY 11, 2024

Statistic: The Packaging Digest reports that 72% of consumers believe that packaging design influences their purchasing decisions. Supply Chain Management and Procurement Benefit: Consultants optimize supply chain processes, identifying reliable suppliers for raw materials and ensuring efficient procurement practices.

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Business Consulting Agency

JULY 24, 2023

Whether it’s streamlining operations, optimizing strategies, or catalyzing innovation, the pursuit of progress is central to an organization’s success. According to a survey by Forbes, 74% of businesses reported that consultants helped identify new growth opportunities.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

According to the United States Government Accountability Office , ten of the government’s legacy systems cost approximately $337 million annually to operate and maintain. Dynamics 365 is an opportunity to transform the way in which you operate. What are Legacy Systems?

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Business Consulting Agency

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

E-commerce Boom : The growth of e-commerce and the rise of D2C (Direct-to-Consumer) sales channels create new avenues for market entry. Supply Chain Optimization : Consultants optimize supply chain operations to ensure cost-effective and efficient distribution, reducing overheads and increasing profitability.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

CSFs can literally be anything — whether it’s improving customer satisfaction, increasing revenue, reducing operating costs, or something specific to a particular project or deliverable – making them somewhat difficult to identify – let alone define in concrete terms. Are project operations, sales, customer service, etc.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2018

Based on these insights, we now propose a new blueprint for financial reporting of digital companies. Investors, therefore, look not just for reported revenues but for drivers behind the revenues, especially because digital companies’ operating activities often differ from their revenue-generating activities.

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Business Consulting Agency

AUGUST 30, 2022

Sales/Marketing. Point of Sale. Operational Efficiency. Reporting/Analytics. Business consulting topics covered include, but are not limited to, the following are as follows: Business Consulting Topics. Retail/E-Commerce. Corporate Filing. Employee relations/Human Resources. Vendor Relations. Product Development.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The World Economic Forum published a report before “seismic disruption” shook up the industry (their words). According to a recent Workday report, it seems that firms are taking this concept of unity seriously. And it’s that “rapid pace of change” that’s currently redefining the professional services industry as we know it.

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Markovitz Consulting

MAY 1, 2019

Another great sales point for the software—the opportunity to anoint a class of high priests with specialized knowledge who take responsibility for improvement. Place responsibility for improvement in the hands of a few people who have the special skills and training to operate the software, and let them fix the problems.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 31, 2016

For many executives battling through economic headwinds in emerging markets, the answer tends to be wherever they think someone will provide the strongest boost to top-line growth, which usually means hiring an additional sales or marketing manager to support the commercial front lines. Somewhere else? This is a problem for several reasons.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

The relationship between departments in a company has a significant, if not game-changing, impact on the way a company operates and whether it will be successful. This breaks a company up into specialized groups: e.g. marketing, sales, engineering, HR. This has a direct bearing on how comfortable employees are at work. Final Thoughts.

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CaseInterview.com

DECEMBER 20, 2020

As part of his desire to be a competent and safe pilot of private planes, he regularly read after-action reports of every airplane crash in the United States. After reading hundreds of crash report summaries, he observed a pattern. The two errors that stick out most in my mind are: Operating on the wrong part of the patient (e.g.,

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Rick Conlow

MAY 31, 2023

Decreased productivity: Bad teamwork can lead to decreased productivity as team members may struggle to work together efficiently. This inefficiency can lead to delays in project completion, missed deadlines, and ultimately, reduced output, poor customer service and lower sales.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2017

The company collects thousands of sales leads from the businesses it serves, and it wishes to interact with them in the intimate, personal manner consumers have come to expect. The reps also become more efficient because Angie routes the right leads to the right reps. Analytics are critical to companies’ performance.

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1 to 1

MAY 26, 2022

It encompasses data mining, data visualization, performance benchmarking, and descriptive analytics—techniques for parsing data to generate reports, performance measures and trends to reveal insights and make better business decisions. Business intelligence answers the questions, “who are our most valuable/least valuable customers?”

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CaseInterview.com

DECEMBER 20, 2020

As part of his desire to be a competent and safe pilot of private planes, he regularly read after-action reports of every airplane crash in the United States. After reading hundreds of crash report summaries, he observed a pattern. The two errors that stick out most in my mind are: Operating on the wrong part of the patient (e.g.,

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Asamby Consulting

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Poor(er) problem solving Businesses are facing and making tough decisions, to identify a problem, break it down into its components, and solve the problem effectively and efficiently is vital. Examples of common functions are sales, marketing, human resources, etc. You can unsubscribe at any time. Check out our privacy policy.

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Rick Conlow

JUNE 19, 2023

However, employees may struggle to prioritize tasks and allocate their time efficiently. Inaccurate Time Reporting: Remote work often requires employees to track their working hours accurately. Leverage Technology: Provide remote workers with the necessary tools and technology to perform their tasks efficiently.

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Asamby Consulting

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Examples include: Sending regular reports to make sure each client understands what value has been created for them Having defined touchpoints with each client Training your team on how you want them to engage with the client Having a customer satisfaction manager whose only job it is to keep your clients satisfied.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 21, 2020

After 9 months, WFH employees experienced a 13% increase in productivity, reported higher levels of work satisfaction , and exhibited 50% lower levels of attrition than their WFO counterparts. It is not efficient. For Christian, that means setting up key deadlines or how many sales his team wants to make a day.

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1 to 1

JUNE 16, 2022

Anyone who engages with a brand wants their interactions to get the job done as efficiently and effectively as possible. Consumers in general are connecting more deeply with brands since the pandemic began, and “intimate brands” outperform other companies when it comes to profits and the stock market, the report found.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Research shows that abnormal weather disrupts the operating and financial performance of 70% of businesses worldwide. When weather conditions are on average adverse over days, weeks, or entire seasons, shortfalls in sales cause reduced cash flows and can lead to financial distress and business failure. These disruptions add up.

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LSA Global

MARCH 20, 2020

While many pundits believe that people can’t perform both roles well, corporations continue to believe that high performing and high potential employees can, at the same time, operate as an effective individual producer and people leader simultaneously. If you expect more from your player-coaches, treat and support them accordingly.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

In our surveys, more than 66% of CEOs said they expect their companies to change their business model in the next three years, with 62% reporting they have management initiatives or transformation programs underway to make their business more digital.

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Effective Managers

MARCH 31, 2023

Check these out: Global AI experts sound the alarm in unique report – University of Cambridge The AI Arms Race Is Changing Everything – Times Magazine How to Survive the A.I. Just as a professional should not blindly trust the report of a junior analysts, one should not blindly trust that the AI will get it right. This is Level 1 work.

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Asamby Consulting

JANUARY 20, 2022

In this case, Goals are the perfect way to efficiently coordinate a growing and often delocalized team. After it is tuned and internalized by this group it is incrementally extended to their reports. sales calls) and not lagging ones (e.g. Successful adoption of goal setting frameworks starts at the top of the organization.

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Harvard Business

JULY 25, 2017

While the business case for embracing technology is widely documented, retailers have historically shied away, given the high cost and operational complexity. Bringing Your Operations Online. Bringing efficiency to operations is table stakes for retailers. Consider integration, too. Optimize staffing.

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