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5 Ways to Improve Consultant Utilization Rates

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How to Analyze Planned vs. Actual Hours with Operating Integrated to Harvest Time Tracking

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Why You Need a Resource Allocation Tool That’s Integrated with Your HubSpot CRM

Operating raised €500k in pre-seed funding

Operating and Solita sign a strategic partnership to streamline project staffing and resource planning across Europe

6 Alternatives to Harvest Forecast For Efficient Resource Management

What is a Project Staffing Tool In Consulting?

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Time Tracking: Why Do Companies Do It?

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From Boutique to Enterprise: Structuring a Growing Consulting Firm

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A Competence Leader’s Look at Operating

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What is a Staffing Manager and Why Your Professional Services Firm Needs One

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How operating a consulting company changes when you’re over 500 people

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Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up Resource Planning: How To Do It?

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Resource Management vs. Project Management: Understanding the Key Differences

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When Do You Need a Resource Manager? Project Staffing in Growing Companies

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How to Become an Exceptional Resource Manager: Mastering the Art of Staffing

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Harvest Forecast Alternative For Resource Planning & Project Staffing

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Consulting Firms That Achieved Massive Growth: Lessons from Industry Leaders

What is Time Tracking?

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Avoid Common Resource Allocation Pitfalls in Consulting for Success

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7 Key Strategies to Build a Successful Consulting Business: Project Models, Hiring, And Growth

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Project Staffing in Professional Services: List Of Things To Consider

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Agency vs. Consultancy: How To Run A Profitable Professional Services Business That Scales

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Distinguishing between an agency and a consultancy

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Feature Update: Match Consultants to Projects based on role, skills, and availability

Understanding the 5 Types of Consulting and Professional Service Projects

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The Operating Method: A Bottom-Up Agency Business Forecast With Less Effort

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Resource Allocation: Handover From Sales to Delivery

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Planned And Actual Utilization in Projects

The 101 of revenue forecasting in professional services

How To Cultivate And Nurture Self Organizing Teams

First Steps For Scaling Your Agency Operations

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What is a Resource Manager? Enhancing Workforce Allocation and Impact

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Planned vs. Actual Hours: Enhancing Utilization and Resource Allocation In Agencies

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What's Billable Utilization? Understanding the Key to Profitability in Professional Services

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6 Effective Strategies to Improve Billable Utilization in 2024

Who's Responsible for Resource Allocation in Agencies?

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Operating Product Walkthrough: The Horizon

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Top Agency Metrics to Follow

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Navigating Skills Management in Agencies: Balancing Staffing and Resources

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The Essentials of Skills Management for Beginners

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Big News: Operating Hits the HubSpot Marketplace!

The Guide to Effective Resource Management

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Weekly resource management meetings: a guide for agencies

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How to set up an agency sales process?

Budgeting success: your agency's guide to realistic financial goals

Simple steps for effective capacity planning in your agency

How to set up an agency account management process?

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Help your consultants become trusted advisors

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The Playbook: how to grow an agency successfully

Mastering Project Staffing In Consulting

CPO of Operating, Matti Parviainen

We want to share our progress as we learn more about our customers, the ways people run their agencies, why they choose Operating – and why not.

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