Project Assistants’ Industries
Different industries have different challenges. Whether it’s better managing your Portfolio, or developing and approach to manage projects and engagements across the enterprise, the correct solution will vary by industry and your organization's maturity and capabilities.
Professional Services
Professional Services organizations that invest in optimizing Project Management practices will typically experience a dramatic increase in project profitability, client satisfaction and follow-on business.
Impact
Professional Services organizations that invest in optimizing Project Management practices will typically experience a dramatic increase in project profitability, client satisfaction and follow-on business.
Challenges
  • Enhancing the customer experience
  • Increasing add-on revenue
  • Improving profitability
  • Improving resource utilization
  • Reducing write-offs and legal exposure
Solutions and Services
  • Process Improvement of Project Management and Service Delivery through an Assessment, Vision and Roadmap
  • Plan attack
  • Prioritize initiatives that will solve delivery issues
  • PMO Outsourcing and Staffing to address skill gaps in Project Management
  • Methods Improvement through tools and services that ensure that delivery methods are applied consistently
  • Microsoft Project and PPM Tool Implementation and Adoption to provide visibility of engagement status and resource utilization
  • Training and Skill Development to improve the Project Management delivery capability and reduce overall project delivery risk
IT Project Management
More than a third of the top Information Technology organizations in the U.S. have chosen Project Assistants for their Enterprise Project Management (EPM) needs.
Impact
Information Technology is a key enabler of the organization’s larger mission and strategy. Effective Project, Portfolio and Resource Management is the difference between the success and failure of enabling your organization’s strive for innovation.
Challenges
  • Missed expectations, including budget and schedule
  • Delivering on active projects and proposed initiatives
  • Matching resource demand with available resource capacity
  • Earning “customer trust”
Solutions and Services
  • Improved Project Management control to drive on-time and on-budget
  • A comprehensive view and understanding of the project portfolio
  • Accurate demand and capacity forecasts; streamlined resolution processes
  • Gaining credibility through consistent execution
Life Sciences R&D
Three-quarters of the world’s largest Life Sciences companies chose Project Assistants as their Enterprise Project Management (EPM) provider.
Impact
Optimal portfolio and project management practices are critical to R&D’s ability to continually and efficiently deliver new products from discovery to commercial market. Project Assistants’ solutions ensure these Life Sciences organizations are able to meet their challenges.
Challenges
  • Lack of solid product candidates based on issues with developing and managing the pipeline
  • Speed to Market
  • Resource utilization
Solutions and Services
  • Investing in the right candidates; stopping investment in the wrong candidates; quickly realigning valuable resources in response to these decisions
  • Understanding the pipeline’s shifting demands; forecasting resource needs
  • Clear visibility to candidate progress and issues; shifting resources to key priorities