Solutions to Power Your Growth

The Methods to See Clearly

Upwards of 40% of projects fail, often due to inconsistent, sub-optimal daily and weekly practices. High performing companies see a 21x cost savings and a 268% ROI by investing in proven project and work management practices according to PMI. We’ll help you deploy the consistent, agile-based methods and routines to empower your team to accomplish more sooner with greater clarity, visibility and predictability.

The Systems To Accelerate

What is Work Management? Work Management is a systematic approach to orchestrating an organization’s workflows—be it a project, an ongoing process, or a routine task. It is the coordination of people and work across all levels of an organization to ensure everyone is aligned and equipped with the clarity, knowledge, tools, and support they need to complete more of the skilled work that matters most.

While Project Management focuses on the trees, Work Management focuses on the forest through the trees. It is a broad system, a way of approaching work and a set of methods for getting work done.

The Norms & Routines to Scale

As opposed to lengthy planning cycles, we maintain a strong bias to action, preferring a lean, agile approach centered on side-by-side collaboration, experimentation, adaptation and continuous improvement that reflects real-world needs and feedback. We’ve found this approach translates into faster delivery that better matches each client’s environment and goals. Leveraging technology to the fullest, we will implement and train your team on the consistent norms, habits, and routines practiced by today’s top performing organizations, tailored to the unique needs of your organization.

From weekly planning and tasking, to hand-offs, reviews, dependencies, QA, and approvals, we’ll install, train, and reinforce the sustainable methods and routines to help you and your team maintain clarity and alignment with fewer meetings and without the typical confusion and frustration.

Software Set-up & Configuration

On average, teams are switching between nine apps daily and are overwhelmed. We’ll help you simplify and consolidate by getting more from your existing tools, or implement new, more modern-day tools to free-up your team’s time for more skilled, strategic work. From design and configuration to testing, roll-out and training, we’ll help you optimize your technology investment for the long-haul with minimal disruption to your team’s existing work.

Integrations & Automations

Complexity kills, and the relentless context and app switching throughout our workday is exacting a severe cognitive cost, damaging our capacity for skilled creative work. Siloed apps and fragmented processes reduce our visibility and create unnecessary duplication and overlap. By consolidating your multiple apps combined with intelligent integrations and automations, you’ll keep work moving seamlessly between individuals and teams without all the friction and duplication. Leveraging both direct and indirect integrations, we can help you reduce complexity, not increase it.

Dashboards & Data Visualization

Get the real-time insights, data and KPIs you need to see and adapt sooner.Too often, business intelligence dashboards are overly complex and walled-off between various apps. The fragmented, continuous data flood slows down decision-making. We’ll deploy a single integrated, simplified dashboard that gives you only the key metrics you need daily and weekly to maintain a clear pulse on your business and your projects; and where you see a concerning trend line, you can quickly drill down without all the friction and switching.

Design

We’ll map-out one or more streamlined workflows, starting with your most pressing bottlenecks. From sales and marketing to support, operations, finance, HR and IT, we’ll work closely with you and your team to simplify and remove excessive manual routines and unnecessary steps so all your critical processes, projects and tasks move seamlessly between individuals and teams. Your new systems and structure will then roll-up to your portfolios, goals, and reporting, providing a clear picture without the confusion and guesswork.

Implementation

We’ll implement, optimize, train, and document your new processes and best-practices with the repeatable templates, checklists, and recorded tutorials to help your team and your new hires ramp-up quickly, sustaining and improving the new routines.

Integration & Automation

Knowledge workers are switching between 9+ apps per day on average. The cognitive harm is killing productivity and stealing precious time. We’ll help you simplify by integrating more of your tools so critical processes and data moves seamlessly between apps without all the friction and switching.

Dedicated or Fractional

We’ll deploy a trained technical, operations, or marketing Project Manager available on a full-time or part-time basis. Completing Project Leads are charged with coordinating all day-to-day activities for you in tight coordination with your internal and/or freelance team members. Our Project Leads drive task assignments and all communication, serving as your team’s daily go-to for clarity, serving your team, removing barriers, and reporting regularly with daily and/or weekly status updates.

One or More Projects Or Portfolios

Select one one or more of your key projects and we’ll drive completion for you, freeing-up your time to focus on more important tasks. We’ll free your team to focus on their highest and best work without all the noise and disruption. All projects are visible in a portfolio view with clear status updates, progress reports, and milestone tracking. From operational streamlining, product development, technical & creative development, we’ll help you optimize internally and get to market sooner at the lowest possible cost.

Guided or Led

We’ll either work-with and guide your internal project coordinators and managers, or we’ll drive your project for you. Guided support enables your existing team to deploy and maintain both the streamlined workflows and efficient processes combined with the best-practice norms and routines to deliver value sooner with reduced workload. By combining both better use of technology and project management best practices, teams can significantly improve their outcomes without the typical busy-work, noise and disruption. Don’t have a team? That’s ok, we’ll assemble one for you.