People planning for strategic resource management
Resource management works best when people come first. Engaged, inspired teams stay and grow, creating lasting talent—and clients who feel the difference.
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Strategic resource management
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Exploring the tools resource managers need to excel, and expand their impact.
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MHA improves consistency of utilization rates with firm-wide implementation.
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Resource Management Maturity
The complete blueprint to transform your resource management.
Learn moreResource management works best when people come first. Engaged, inspired teams stay and grow, creating lasting talent—and clients who feel the difference.
Set your team up for success through fair and balanced resource allocation. The result? A fired-up team delivering standout results for clients.
"We want Grant Thornton Netherlands to be the firm where people work on projects they want to work on. With a comprehensive but intuitive scheduling interface that allows us to match skills and preferences to work, Dayshape will enable us to deliver great employee and client experiences."
Remko Lagendijk
Assurance Partner, Grant Thornton Netherlands
"Dayshape's advanced functionalities and intuitive, user-friendly interface were strong drivers for us. These features enable more efficient processes while improving our employee experience."
Daniel Gwerder
Partner and Head of Product Development and Digitalization for Audit, BDO Switzerland
"The additional insights we receive through Dayshape Intelligent Staffing enhances our ability to make staffing decisions from a firm-wide view, rather than being limited by geography, industry, or service line. This approach aligns perfectly with Plante Moran's 'one-firm firm' philosophy, magnifying our practice of bringing the full power of our firm to our clients, and ultimately strengthening support for both our clients and our staff."
Laura Beyer
Director of Talent Deployment, Plante Moran
"We believe that taking really good care of our people enables them to take really good care of our clients. Dayshape supports this approach to growth in a holistic manner and is sure to enhance our ability to execute excellently for our clients."
Casey Hawkins
Director of Operations, Embark
"To develop your people, you must give them access to a broad range of work. By aligning resource allocation with individual work preferences, we can offer better career development opportunities."
Leanne Wilkins
Head of Talent Acquisition and Resourcing, MHA
"We're looking forward to utilizing skills-based scheduling and work preferences to not only deliver for our clients but also provide an enhanced, more enjoyable experience for our people here at Moore Kingston Smith."
Sarah Kirkman
Recruitment and Resourcing Lead, Moore Kingston Smith
"With Dayshape we can ensure that our people are allocated to work that is within their preferences. At Pinion, we've set a goal for this rate at 80% to foster fulfilling careers for our people. "
Allison Hovey
Resource Management Leader, Pinion
Inspire teams. Delight clients.
Discover how a people-inspired approach to resource management can accelerate profitability, attract and develop skilled staff, and help to future-proof your firm.
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A people first approach to resource planning aims to provide individuals with more autonomy and influence over their daily work as well as longer-term career development. By considering individual motivations and preferences a people first approach can help to attract and retain valuable talent and contribute to more fulfilling careers. In addition to attracting and retaining talent, matching skills to work results in higher quality engagements and provides better visibility of skill shortages.
Resource scheduling software can be used to support people-first planning as it automatically considers skills, traits, and task preferences during the resource scheduling process. Self-serve assignment functionality can also empower your teams by allowing them to select the work they’d like to be involved in, from unassigned work aligned to their grade, location and business unit. Teams can also suggest changes to their schedules, giving them more control of their careers and work-life balance.
Resource management software can help professional services firms to allocate work fairly by automatically calculating a suitability score for each person. This helps to assist resource managers in the resource allocation process and assign work objectively. Suitability scoring works by automatically identifying the best match of available skills, knowledge, and expertise for the task. A data-driven approach to resource planning also reduces job selection bias and allows work to be distributed more effectively and fairly across the firm. Ensuring the best match of resource allocation based on skills and availability for the task every time can also positively impact retention by supporting diversity and career advancement.
Implemented correctly, an optimal resource plan can increase efficiency, improve profit margins and positively impact client and employee satisfaction. Using resource management software firms can create optimal resource plans and find the best people for their engagements faster. Resource management software also provides firm-wide visibility of staff in one tool, allowing teams to efficiently and flexibly plan across all engagements, improving utilization and capacity planning. Automated project controls and alerts can also be used to speed up the process of resolving clashes or prevent them from happening in the first place.
AI-powered scheduling
Improve your resource scheduling with advanced, flexible, and transparent AI
Real-time project financials
Resource management informed by financial metrics, in real time, for the first time
Budgeting and demand capture
Create, adapt, and analyze budgets – with confidence
Gantt chart scheduler
Optimally staff projects no matter how large or complex the need
People-first planning
Attract and retain talent by putting people at the heart of staffing decisions
Reports and dashboards
Unparalleled visibility and insight to help you achieve business objectives
Discover how AI can transform your resource management and enhance your project delivery.
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