Colorado Groupe is a customer relations consulting firm. With 50 employees, Colorado Groupe is one of the leaders in marketing and customer relationship consulting.
Through its platform, Stafiz has provided Colorado Groupe with simplified management processes for resource planning and decision-support tools and indicators to improve its project margins.
- Scope: France
- Users: 30 employees
- Sector: Consulting
Background 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 forecasts. For example, management didn't have the benefit of a "reste à faire" update to calculate the forecast margin for projects.
Their needs in brief :
- Anticipating financial forecasts
- Monitor employee workloads with a high degree of visibility and predictability
- Increasing utilization rate which impacted profitability
Before using Stafiz, we were unable to improve our resource planning rates. Thanks to Stafiz, we manage 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 module provides project managers and all Colorado Groupe employees with a high level of visibility and considerable time savings. The integration of upcoming business into the workload plan provides additional visibility and enables utilization rate to be increased with fewer inter-contracts.
When it comes to recruitment and resource allocation, the multi-criteria search engine integrating skills management makes the process quick and easy. Finally, the centralization of needs and the pre-resource planning enable you to anticipate activity more efficiently.
On the project management side, automatic calculation of future project margins and visualization of deviations from budget enable better decisions to be made regarding resource planning, expenses and all other project variables.
Benefits
- Visibility and anticipation of needs has enabled us to improve utilization rate by +35%.
- Project financial indicators and actions on resource planning have increased project margins by +15%.
- Time and financial savings were also noted. Management has saved 5 hours a week on planning, and the elimination of the absence management software has enabled savings on subscriptions, respectively.
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