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Adam Bager

Published Sep 21st, 2016 by

Eight Measures for Professional Services Organizations – No. 5 – Standard Cost Variance

The notion of a standard cost is a familiar one in manufacturing and distribution companies. In manufacturing companies, for example,

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Published Sep 21st, 2016 by

What Can You do About Low Utilization in a PSO?

It’s one thing to measure utilization (see Utilization). It’s quite another to understand what it means and to influence it.

Published Sep 21st, 2016 by

Eight Measures for Professional Services Organizations – No. 4 – Realization

In the ideal world of the Professional Services Organization, clients pay for every second we spend on their behalf, and

Published Sep 20th, 2016 by

What to Measure if What You’re Selling is Time?

Although they don’t like to think in this way, Professional Services Organizations (PSOs) are businesses just like any others. They

Published Sep 16th, 2016 by

Eight Measures for Professional Services Organizations – No. 2 – Standard Fee Variance

In this series of articles I am looking at how to measure the performance of a professional services organization (PSO). I assume,

Published Sep 15th, 2016 by

Eight Measures for Professional Services Organizations – No. 3 – Activity Variance

So far we’ve looked at two measures: utilization, and standard fee variance. Measuring Standard Fee Variance (see Standard Fee Variance) is all

Published Sep 14th, 2016 by

Eight Measures for Professional Services Organizations – No. 1 – Utilisation

What’s the most obvious sign of a successful Professional Services Organization (PSO)? Well, one of the most tempting signs is

Published Sep 14th, 2016 by

Four Important Design Principles

When you’re designing a business system for a client, you’re often wrapped up in the logic of information flows from A to