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Resource Planning

 

CIO Magazine's Annual CIO Survey revealed that the

#1 problem CIOs face today is an overwhelming backlog of requests and projects.

Survey of more than 500 IT leaders conducted and published by CIO Magazine.

Excerpted from the January 1, 2005, issue of CIO Magazine.

Organizations today have become practiced at the project juggling act and are far too familiar with the project backlog.

Which project get done first?

When can Project X get started?

What happens when unanticipated projects arise?  

With The Project Network’s™ Resource Planning feature, organizations can now provide stakeholders with timely and accurate answers to all of these questions and more.  Using a skill-type

framework, Resource Planning allows users to improve their on-time project delivery, predict the impact of proposed project changes, determine how many and what kind of skill type is necessary – by project.   

"The really nice thing that resource planning has done for us. . . is that now Hospital Administration, not IS, is accurately focusing all of its IT resources on the highest priority projects based on our business strategy. "

~ Jeff Hale, CIO, Akron Children's Hospital

Benefits

  • Determine where your people are spending time today and where they are needed tomorrow
  • Define the skills required to get your projects done on time
  • Identify skills needed now, in six months and a year from
  • now
  • Provide managers with a short-term and long-term staffing model
  • Balance your project portfolio based on staff time constraints
  • Assess how much staff time you have available to spend on projects after factoring in non-project time commitments

 

                                                             Example:  Graphic Illustration of Current Staff Time Assessment

Read how Akron's CIO overcame this obstacle by requesting a copy of the Akron case study today: 


For a real life example of how resource planning can have a positive impact on an organization, request a copy of Texas Children's Hospital case study: