{"id":9,"date":"2013-11-21T12:41:49","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T17:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portfolio-perspectives.planview.com\/?p=2290"},"modified":"2016-11-18T11:01:04","modified_gmt":"2016-11-18T17:01:04","slug":"professional-services-organizational-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/professional-services-organizational-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"Tackling Professional Services\u2019 Organizational Challenges with Multiple Priorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During a webcast with SPI Research called, <a title=\"Leadership in Large Professional Services Organizations: Dwell or Excel\" href=\"https:\/\/go.planview.com\/leadership-professional-services\/\"><i>Leadership in Large Professional Services Organizations: Dwell or Excel<\/i><\/a>, we discussed the latest research on the topic of trends in project-based businesses and how executive leadership is influencing the priorities of delivery excellence and project automation.<\/p>\n<p>Something interesting happened when we polled the audience of more than 150 professional services (PS) experts, and compared their responses to the same question posed to survey participants of the annual, PS Maturity Benchmark survey.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><b>Live Poll Question: What challenge has the highest priority from your executives?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The top selection among those polled claimed achieving revenue and margin targets posed the greatest challenge and held the highest priority for executives.<\/p>\n<p><b>Comparing the surveys, the study respondents claimed their top organizational challenge was:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The ability to support growth and expansion in 2012<\/li>\n<li>Talent management in 2013<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"width: 600px; 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All but one of these challenges identified in the survey has a higher score than the previous year, indicating that they are seen as more important than previously. With the opportunity for growth for PS firms increasing, particularly within North America, the need to support growth and expansion while managing margins will be a major driver of operations professionals.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, the pressures to hire and retain talented people are bound to be a consequence, along with the need for improved consistency and quality of the services delivered. <strong>To achieve sustainable growth<\/strong>, a PS firm must seek continuous improvement, both in the value of their services and the maturity of their processes and systems. With the appropriate solutions in place, PS can better manage business operations while providing executives visibility into performance that helps drive better business outcomes.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Key_Takeaways\"><\/span>Key Takeaways<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Regardless of which polling response aligns with your priorities: None of these operational KPIs can be achieved without ensuring the marketing and sales of services is done more successfully. As the supporting research report, <a title=\"Dwell or Excel: Leadership in Large Professional Services Organizations\" href=\"https:\/\/go.planview.com\/leadership-professional-services-organizations\/\"><i>Dwell or Excel: Leadership in Large Professional Services Organizations<\/i><\/a> explains, &#8220;Close integration between the sales and delivery functions allows for better estimating of the service costs and improved resource demand and capacity planning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately many of the organizational challenges that ranked highest in SPI&#8217;s survey need to be on the priority lists of PS firms and the actions taken to address these challenges, monitored closely. Regardless of how an organization seeks to tackle or prioritize improvements, there is real benefit from a pipeline view from quote-to-cash.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To learn more<\/strong> <a title=\"Watch the webcast Leadership in Large Professional Services Organizations: Dwell or Excel\" href=\"https:\/\/go.planview.com\/leadership-professional-services-organizations\/\">watch the SPI Dwell or Excel webcast<\/a>, hosted by yours truly and download the free research report, <a title=\"Dwell or Excel: Leadership in Large Professional Services Organizations\" href=\"https:\/\/go.planview.com\/leadership-professional-services-organizations\/\"><i>Dwell or Excel: Leadership in Large Professional Services Organizations<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a webcast with SPI Research called, Leadership in Large Professional Services Organizations: Dwell or Excel, we discussed the latest research on the topic of trends in project-based businesses and how executive leadership is influencing the priorities of delivery excellence and project automation. 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