Why use WAM - Five Key Drivers

Cost Reduction

Minimising unnecessary costs during difficult economic times is not just a return on investment (ROI) issue, but potentially one of market survival. While lowered cost often is not thought of as a primary reason for implementing WAM (Work Activity Manager), many companies find that the efficiency and productivity gains of WAM result in significant budgetary successes. Cost reduction comes from automating core business processes, improved workflow management, streamlined administration, and better resource time and financial tracking.

Increased Revenue and Profitability

One of the top reasons for investing in WAM is the potential for increased revenue and profitability that results from improved "people resource" utilisation, within and across business networks. This ultimately leads to improved customer satisfaction and repeat business. Payback on WAM sometimes can occur within six months, depending on the size and complexity of the solution.

Workflow Improvement across the Service Lifecycle

In highly project-driven organisations, workflow improvements can reduce time to market while lowering service execution

costs and improving quality. These benefits come from creating reusable workflow templates and processes, automating core workflow through creative, planning and job execution processes, and more tightly integrating content approval, project planning, status reporting, scheduling, and financial WIP.

Improved Team Collaboration

Project managers can effectively manage teams even when spread over long distances, and teams can keep on top of their deliverables by using Webbased collaboration and communication portals. WAM offers the further benefits of personalised content to reduce information overload and aggregated content from multiple projects and sources to provide the project manager, account managers, and executives with views of their entire campaign and project portfolio.

Improved Resource Utilisation

Having an effective time and activity record of key personnel can help your organisation deliver significant benefits. WAM can deliver real business value in improved workflow management from best-fit management of resources to client projects. Better alignment of people and skills to billable (and non billable) projects can result in significant resource usage gains.