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Abstract:
The lifeblood by which executives in professional services organizations (PSO) manage their businesses has traditionally
centered on the concept of realization, measured through metrics. Predictive Service Execution enables firms to deliver consistent
and timely services while maximizing cash flow, engag (...)
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The Path to Realization: Predictive Service Execution for Professional Firms.
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2010-03-11
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Your Challenge: Get Decision Makers' Approval for a Service Productization. Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and
Time-Bound. Productization of services is accomplished by associating tangible features with intangible service offerings.
Tangible features may take the form of personnel, collateral (...)
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Your Challenge: Get Decision Makers' Approval for a Service Productization. Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant
and Time-Bound. Productizati...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Abstract:
There are two types of project portfolio management (PPM) solutions for professional services organizations (PSO). For smaller
PSOs, best-of-breed vendors provide hosted solutions with out-of-the-box integrations, while integrated PPM solutions provide
the complete back-office systems preferred by many l (...)
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There are two types of project portfolio management (PPM) solutions for professional services organizations (PSO). For smaller
PSOs, best-of-breed...
Published:
2006-01-02
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Abstract:
The CRM market is shifting. Instead of looking for an all-purpose and horizontal oriented CRM application, customers are
seeking a more specialized and industry specific tool. From the larger organization to the smallest customers, CRM buyers
are expecting their applications to follow their business mode (...)
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The CRM market is shifting. Instead of looking for an all-purpose and horizontal oriented CRM application, customers are seeking
a more specialize...
Published:
2003-05-28
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Abstract:
There are two types of project portfolio management (PPM) solutions for professional services organizations (PSO). For smaller
PSOs, best-of-breed vendors provide hosted solutions with out-of-the-box integrations, while integrated PPM solutions provide
the complete back-office systems preferred by many l (...)
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professional service firms:
There are two types of project portfolio management (PPM) solutions for professional services organizations (PSO). For smaller
PSOs, best-of-breed...
Published:
2006-01-02
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Abstract:
Interface Software, a provider of relationship intelligence to professional services firms, introduces InterAction 5 with
three additional modules aimed at facilitating collaborative work in both legal- and project-based environments. InterAction
5 reinforces Interface Software's customer relationship ma (...)
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Interface Software, a provider of relationship intelligence to professional services firms, introduces InterAction 5 with
three additional modules...
Published:
2004-08-26
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... Appirio and OpenAir’s surge indicate that professional service companies
are ... In this difficult economic environment, nimble service firms have
no choice but ...
Published:
2010-07-12
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Deltek has focused on addressing the unique business needs of project-oriented organizations. Its product line has expanded
from applications for managing the core back-office processes to the front-office and e-business of professional services
and other project-based companies, of which many provide pr (...)
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Deltek has focused on addressing the unique business needs of project-oriented organizations. Its product line has expanded
from applications for ...
Published:
2004-01-10
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What started out as a set of applications to better manage customers' projects, astutely allocate staff and monitor their
utilization rates has become an important foundation for coordinating a full range of business activities amongst increasingly
virtual teams both within and outside the four-walls. (...)
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What started out as a set of applications to better manage customers' projects, astutely allocate staff and monitor their
utilization rates has be...
Published:
2003-12-27
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On February 29, PeopleSoft Inc. took the wraps off its Professional Services Automation (PSA) product, software that aims
to help services firms better manage financial and human-resources systems. On March 6, Lawson Software reaffirmed its position
as a “premier total solution provider for the profess (...)
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On February 29, PeopleSoft Inc. took the wraps off its Professional Services Automation (PSA) product, software that aims
to help services firms b...
Published:
2000-04-12
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Abstract:
The CRM market is shifting. Instead of looking for an all-purpose and horizontal oriented CRM application, customers are
seeking a more specialized and industry specific tool. From the larger organization to the smallest customers, CRM buyers
are expecting their applications to follow their business mode (...)
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professional service firms:
The CRM market is shifting. Instead of looking for an all-purpose and horizontal oriented CRM application, customers are seeking
a more specialize...
Published:
2003-05-28
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Abstract:
An Alarming Look At The Mismatch Between Talent Strategies, Processes, and Corporate Objectives. Download IT Guide on Talent
Strategies, Processes and Corporate Objectives. A survey of professional services firms shows a serious disconnect between
the desired operational state of the firms and their curre (...)
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An Alarming Look At The Mismatch Between Talent Strategies, Processes, and Corporate Objectives. Download IT Guide on Talent
Strategies, Processes ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Abstract:
Service Delivery Innovation: Creating Client Value and Enhancing Profitability. Secure Documents and Other Computer Software
to Use In Your System for Creating Client Value and Enhancing Profitability. The rules for success in today’s fiercely competitive
market are constantly changing. Through service (...)
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Service Delivery Innovation: Creating Client Value and Enhancing Profitability. ... Through
service delivery innovation, a company can differentiate itself. ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Making Multi-rater Feedback Work in Professional Services Firms. Search for Software and Other Documents for Your Acquisition
Related to Multi-rater Feedback Work in Professional Services Firms. For many firms, continually moving people to new projects
under different leaders is the only possible way to o (...)
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Making Multi-rater Feedback Work in Professional Services Firms. Search for Software and Other Documents for Your Acquisition
Related to Multi-rate...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Lawson is sticking to its focus on selected vertical markets, but going forward the tenets of that focus will likely be more
finely tuned. Namely, the vendor has lately accelerated development, in part through a number of appetizing acquisitions,
of its traditional vertical functionality to ensure contin (...)
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Lawson is sticking to its focus on selected vertical markets, but going forward the tenets of that focus will likely be more
finely tuned. Namely,...
Published:
2003-11-07
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Deltek's founders have managed the company with great success by expanding client focus into the commercial sector during
the late 1980s. In 1991, Deltek began to configure its software for larger customers. Since 2001, a key growth strategy for
Deltek has been providing additional front-office software (...)
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Deltek's founders have managed the company with great success by expanding client focus into the commercial sector during
the late 1980s. In 1991,...
Published:
2004-01-09
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Deltek Vision and other Deltek enterprise solutions, have been major players with project management-oriented organizations
for the past twenty years. Vision a leading product in the professional services automation market and has taken significant
strides to maintain this market leading position. (...)
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Deltek Vision and other Deltek enterprise solutions, have been major players with project management-oriented organizations
for the past twenty ye...
Published:
2005-09-27
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Abstract:
Since the late nineties, enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendors have developed functionality for vertical markets in
the service industry. Simultaneously, professional services automation (PSA) became a viable software category. Consequently,
deciphering the difference between ERP and PSA remains a c (...)
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professional service firms:
Since the late nineties, enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendors have developed functionality for vertical markets in the
service industry. Sim...
Published:
2006-04-13
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Selecting the right project-oriented software may depend on the specific requirements of the industry niches in which an
organization competes. But since not all software is created equal, it's worth examining some leading candidates in depth. (...)
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Selecting the right project-oriented software may depend on the specific requirements of the industry niches in which an organization
competes. Bu...
Published:
2006-06-07
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Abstract:
In the short term, Microsoft Dynamics SL will likely follow the professional services automation (PSA) trend of extending
functionality to the Web. In the long term, its eventual absorption into the Microsoft Dynamics product line may affect Microsoft's
strategy in the project portfolio management market (...)
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In the short term, Microsoft Dynamics SL will likely follow the professional services automation (PSA) trend of extending
functionality to the Web...
Published:
2006-02-10