Resource Management - EPM Partners

In today's competitive and changing markets, organisations are looking to maximise ROI and drive efficiencies to sustain the business and support future growth. Resources are arguably an organisation's most valuable asset and potentially its biggest expense. Proper management and optimal use of resources is key for an organisation to realise its business strategy. With intelligent resource management, an organisation can develop and retain a world-class workforce.

EPM Partners will deliver the following to your resource management practice:

Visibility and control using a centralised, shared resource pool

With a large number of employees and dispersed teams, it can become difficult to keep track of who is available, what they are capable of doing, and where they are located. Centralising resources and standardising metadata about the enterprise resource pool is the first step to gaining visibility and control.

Capacity to demand comparison to maximise resource utilisation

Resource capacity often will determine whether organisations are able to complete projects in a specific planning horizon. Capturing resource requirements early in the project life cycle helps analysts anticipate future demand and proactively schedule projects to maximise resource utilisation.

Finding the right people for the project

Projects often include dispersed teams and require a diverse set of skills. Finding the right people with availability for each project significantly increases the chance of successfully completing the initiative and realising ROI. Managers need to be able to effectively tap the resource pool to find potential candidates and then quickly see if they are available to join the team.

Managing resource assignments and overcome conflicts.

Managers improve project success rates by effectively managing resource assignments. This means quickly resolving over-allocation and reacting to resource conflicts . Managers require tools that help them assess and manage assignments through the project life cycle and easily communicate with team members about assignments.

EPM Partners will deliversa powerful set of capabilities to help the PMO, resource managers, analysts and project managers proactively and reactively manage resources across the project life cycle.