Why use Activity Management Solution – Five Key Drivers

Cost Reduction

Minimizing unnecessary costs during difficult economic times is not just a return on investment (ROI) issue, but potentially one of market survival. And while lowered cost often is not thought of as a primary reason for implementing an Activity Management Solution (AMS), many companies find that the efficiency and productivity gains of an AMS solution 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 an AMS solution is the increased revenue and profitability that results from improved people resource utilization within and across business networks, which ultimately leads to improved customer satisfaction and repeat business. Payback on the original AMS investment sometimes can occur within six months, depending on the size and complexity of the solution.

Workflow Improvement across the Service Life Cycle

In highly project-driven organizations, 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 Web-based collaboration and communication portals. AMS offer the further benefits of personalized 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 Utilization

Having an effective time and activity record of key personnels activity can help your organization deliver significant benefits. AMS solutions 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 resource usage gains averaging at least 15 to 25 percent.