Colorado Groupe is a customer relations consulting firm. With its 50 employees, Colorado Groupe is one of the leaders in marketing and customer relations consulting.
Through its platform, Stafiz has provided Colorado Group with simplified processes for managing the resource planning and decision-making tools and indicators to improve project margins.
- Perimeter: France
- Users: 30 collaborators
- Sector: Counsel
Context and issues
During the project launched in 2018, Colorado consulting wanted to reimagine its internal processes and specifically the management of its resource planning to gain visibility and increase its utilization rate. At the time, there was no visibility into the impact of leave on the forecasted workload and little visibility for employees.
In terms of performance management, the teams needed greater visibility, particularly on the forecast. For example, management did not benefit from updating the remaining amount to be done to calculate the projected margin of projects.
Their needs at a glance:
- Anticipating the financial forecast
- Monitor employee workload with high visibility and predictability
- Increase utilization rate that impacted profitability
Before using Stafiz, we were unable to improve our resource planning. Thanks to Stafiz, we are managing our capacities much better and have improved our margins.
We turned to Stafiz, which not only allowed us to digitize our resource planning, but also to automatically calculate the remaining work to be done on projects.
Isabelle Lalet
Director of Development and Support
Solution provided
The resource planning brings great visibility and considerable time savings to project managers and all Colorado Group employees. The integration of future workloads into the workload plan provides additional visibility and increases the number of utilization rate with reduced inter-contracts.
In terms of recruitment and resource allocation, the multi-criteria search engine integrating skills management makes this process simple and fast. The centralization of needs and the pre-resource planning finally make it possible to anticipate activity in a more efficient way.
On the project management side, the automatic calculation of future project margins as well as the visualization of deviations from the budget allow better decisions to be made regarding the resource planning, expenses and any other project variables.
Benefits
- Visibility and anticipation of needs has made it possible to improve the utilization rate by +35%.
- The financial indicators of projects as well as the actions on the resource planning increased project margins by +15%.
- We also note the time and financial savings. Management has saved 5 hours per week on schedule management and the removal of absence management software has made it possible to save on subscriptions, respectively.
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