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Resource Management for the ICT Industry with Meisterplan
Very few companies in the Information and Communication industry live in a gold mine of comfortable growth where cost does not play a role. Stakes are high due to fierce competition and high product development costs. Service organizations need perfect resource utilization to maintain profitability. Program Managers in the ICT industry use Meisterplan because it gives them insight into all areas of their business and they can efficiently monitor projectProjectA project is a time-limited undertaking with defined objectives and resources that delivers unique results and often includes complex tasks. planning in one place. The graphical user interface provides just the overview that they need to see all of the projects in their portfolio or a filtered view of the exact projects that are important to them at that time. This ensures that everyone is focused on an integrated plan, which clearly states and communicates priorities.
Meisterplan clearly displays the capacity of resourcesResourceResources are all the people, places and things that you need to complete projects. The most important resource? Employees, of course!, so they can match available resources to the demand pipeline (e.g., to client projects) with a couple of clicks. Scenario simulationsScenario SimulationsSynonym for → ScenarioIn project portfolio management (PPM), scenarios are potential ways that your portfolio can look, based on a set of well-defined assumptions and portfolio decisions. Scenario planning is used to forecast… give them the flexibility they need to determine the best alternative and quickly adapt to market changes, so that they can focus that time and energy on creating the best product. Meisterplan also makes it easy to communicate the benefit of doing specific projects and what is and what is not in the scope for delivery based on data and clearly visualized and reported.
The key quantifiable difference since we started using Meisterplan is that planning horizon has moved immediately from short term to long term, from 3 months to 18 months. And that creates more efficient communication, and better and more logical decision making.
On top of providing extremely well-documented user guides, Meisterplan’s Customer Success team offered personalized support that made a real difference for us. They work closely with their customers to understand their specific business needs and can quickly identify the right configuration solution to meet them.
With Meisterplan, we are able to implement our internal strategic projects with less than 10% deviation from the planned schedule.
We successfully run 400 projects and 20 programs in our portfolio with Meisterplan. Although many have tried, you can’t manage that many programs and resources in Excel templates. But you can with Meisterplan.
There is no other product that does what Meisterplan does in terms of portfolio management and resource management without unessential extra features. If there were another product that does what Meisterplan does, I would have found it, because I tried them all.
The flow of our projects is highly dynamic, and Meisterplans' Scenario Modeling has greatly enhanced our ability to manage the swings whether upward or downward.
Before implementing Meisterplan, our resource management was a game of Excel bingo: timeconsuming, cumbersome, and error prone.
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