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Managing skilled resources across multiple projects? Improve your demand management and allocation with tools from Innate Discover More Speak to an expert The challenge is to keep your teams fully utilized When each project has its own timeline, priority and skills requirements Discover More Speak to an expert A 2% improvement in utilization can increase profits by 25% From an Association of Consulting Engineers member survey Discover More Speak to an expert If you are struggling with spreadsheets, we are the logical next step Delivering the right information to achieve your targets Discover More Speak to an expert

Resource Management Specialists

Managing multiple projects with a limited pool of resources can be an exciting ride! You’ve just got your skills capacity nicely in balance with the demand when a new project arrives, creating unexpected bottlenecks.

Striking the right balance on resourcing levels is not easy. Whilst there must be sufficient spare resource to plug any gaps, too many just sitting on the bench will cause utilisation levels to fall and operational profits evaporate.

As new project plans are approved, requests for resource must be satisfied. Whatever your resource allocation process, there must be effective collaboration between project and resource managers, if individual projects are not to suffer.

With the project resourced and work underway, the prudent project manager will want early warning of cost or schedule overruns. Simply comparing the time spent with the approved plan isn’t really good enough; an assessment of what’s been achieved (the earned value) must also be made, if forecasting the remaining work is to be realistic.

And any change to a project plan can cause new resource bottlenecks!

If this scenario strikes a chord, then please read on. Innate has been helping project and services organizations get to grips with these resourcing issues for more than 20 years.

Businesses we have already helped

We work with more than 50 clients in Europe, North America and Asia, across several market sectors:

  • Engineering & construction services.
  • Internal departments, such as IT and R&D, within financial services, government, pharmaceuticals, telecoms and other sectors.
  • Professional services organizations, including market research and IT service providers.

As the software has evolved, we’ve become a reliable partner to several large multi-nationals, some of whom are rolling out our software across their global operations. Discover More

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How we can help your business

Innate is a well-established resource management software author, with products that help to continuously optimise the utilisation of your skilled resources. We are particularly effective if you are struggling to manage resource demand and allocation across the project portfolio, with shared spreadsheets.

Converting your resource planning spreadsheets into Innate will transform your system:

  • Project and resource data become consistent, current and complete.
  • Multi-user access with permissions and workflow control.
  • Traceability tracks who changed what, by how much and when.
  • Web based reports will substantially improve communication.

All the core resource management functions are provided:

  • Checking the skills capacity to take on new work and rebalancing the workload using 'what if...' scenarios.
  • Resource planning with Innate's web-based spreadsheet, and MS Project if required.
  • Locating suitably skilled staff and managing the resource allocation process.
  • Record (or import) how time is spent, for project tracking, metrics and staff utilisation.
  • Project performance measurement and forecast to completion.
  • Cost and rates management, to provide cost and income projections against project budgets.
  • Well-structured management information.
  • Managed data exchange with other systems, such as HR, ERP and Finance.

Innate is a Microsoft Software Solutions Partner, making reliable products to industry standards. The software is relatively quick to implement, easy to deploy, has great flexibility and is competitively priced.

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We are keen to understand each client’s issues and requirements up front. We offer to take on representative data and partially configure the system at no charge. This proof of concept exercise helps both parties understand how close the system can get to meeting each challenge.

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