Productized Services: How Custom Digital Services Firms Can Adopt Them
Many custom digital services firms are looking for a simplified way to experience higher margins and obtain predictable, repeatable work. The answer lies in productized...
Focal Point: Insights from the Parallax Blog
Discover the best practices for sales pricing, project accounting and resource management needed to evolve your digital agency.
Parallax Introduces New Features to Enhance Personalization, Optimize Usability
Working in the services industry means dealing with fast-paced everything. People are often tasked with finding and sharing information with both colleagues and clients at...
Stay Profitable and Innovative: Use the Three Horizon Framework to Forecast Growth
Stay profitable and relevant today, with an eye on the trend-setting work of tomorrow. Learn how with McKinsey's 'Three Horizon's of Growth' Framework.
The Power of OKRs for Professional Services Companies
Objectives and Key Results, what most people call “OKRs,” is more than a buzzy acronym used across the tech community. Table of Contents The power...
How To Strive For 100% Productive Utilization: Complete Guide
How to pair billable & productive utilization targets High-performing digital services companies and tech consultancies regularly achieve billable utilization rates of 75-85%. If you consistently...
5 Best Mavenlink (Kantata) Alternatives And Competitors To Consider
Nearly all decisions that leaders of digital service companies make rely on accurate insights and forecasts — but to gather those insights and create those...
Uncomplicating the Complicated: What Utilization (Really) Is and How to Calculate It
Utilization and capacity planning can feel like an impossible equation to solve. But while it’s complex in nature, it can be simplified by focusing on the metrics that matter most.
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.
Don’t Push Off Strategic Planning: Download This Guide, and Get Started Now
Let’s get real. Chaotic planning causes stress that trickles down from leadership teams and ultimately impacts clients. Learn how to turn it around in 2023.