How To Strive For 100% Productive Utilization: Complete Guide
This article discusses how digital services companies and tech consultancies can achieve a 100% productive utilization rate by pairing their billable utilization targets of 75-85%...
Category: Business Strategy
Modern Work is Changing: Parallax’s Takeaways on Billing the Creative Process, Timesheets, and “Hustle Culture”
One of the main reasons agencies and development studios struggle to break the cycle of too much or too little work is because they haven’t considered how poor resource planning leads to confusion, stress, and burnout. Without mastering forecasting basics, this cycle will continue.
Projector PSA vs Replicon vs Parallax: Which will work for you?
Digital services companies have a lot of choices today regarding the solutions they leverage to operationalize their businesses. See why leaders are choosing Parallax —...
Hustle Culture is Canceled
Retaining your best people has never been more important. By replacing hustle culture with mission culture, leaders can evolve away from dysfunction.
Five Steps to Smarter Forecasting
Riding the "too little work, too much work" roller coaster is a tough challenge for digital services companies. Here are five steps to use data and forecasting to exit the ride.
KPIs that Matter: How to Protect Project Margins Amid Economic Uncertainty
Economic uncertainty is causing business leaders to become more conservative with their resources. A looming recession, layoffs across tech sectors, and shrinking budgets mean digital services companies need to optimize their performance and maximize their resources without burning people out.
During Turbulent Times, Narrow Your Focus: The Two KPIs That Matter Most
When the economy is booming and money is flowing, it’s easier for services companies to get away with sloppy operations and underperforming KPI’s. However, when...
Embarking on a Software Evaluation? Leverage These 6 Pillars from the Outcome Chain Framework
Adopting a Professional Services Automation tool is all about driving business outcomes – like better revenue, increased margin, or strategic growth. In reality, most organizations aren’t doing a great job of evaluating software, and they’re missing the mark on the solution that best suits their needs. We explain topics to consider before purchasing a new tool.
The Growth Mindset for Digital Agencies
Scaling a digital shop is challenging. I’ve been there. Last week, we were given the opportunity to speak with other digital shops via the Society...