Managing Tremendous Growth
N O T - F O R - P R O F I T

The Challenge

As a result of an aggressive business strategy, an international not-for-profit corporation experienced unprecedented growth:

1. Their employee staff doubled within a year.
2. They now supported more than 25 multi-national businesses.
3. They now provided diverse services including legal counsel, program and event management, and information services management.

Accurate information reflecting the people resources available for any single task was becoming skewed because so many employees were working on cross-purpose assignments. The company believed that greater economies of scale would be realized if management could somehow gain a broad based understanding of their people resources -- the number of people working on specific tasks, the available skill sets, and the areas within the organization suffering from pronounced skill gaps.

The Solution

SkillSolutions™, The Resource PowerTool, helped provide an accurate picture of the number of people assigned to accounts, projects, programs and events. Additionally, SkillSolutions™ delivered information, including project completion dates and the percentage of each employee's time spent on each project. SkillSolutions™ enabled the company to construct more targeted hiring strategies and prevented over-hiring. As a result of this careful resource monitoring and management, resources are now being re-deployed to provide cost-effective coverage to other areas of the company.