Time management, the key to profitability
Time is the lifeblood of any agency. Every minute counts, and every hour must be optimized. Profitability depends on rigorous staffing management: knowing how to who works on what, when and for how long. But too many agencies are still navigating by sight, undergoing their planning rather than anticipating it.
The result? Projects that get out of hand, teams under pressure, and margins that plummet.
Time can be controlled (or subdued)
Without schedule visibility, it’s impossible to know whether your teams are under-staffed, overloaded or, worse still, working for free. working for free. How many times has a project gone over schedule without anyone noticing until closing? These slippages are costly, both for your teams and for your bottom line.
With a dedicated tool, you can regain control:
- Who’s available and when? No more riddles or “I thought that…”.
- What are the priority tasks? Your teams know where to focus their efforts.
- What’s everyone’s workload like? Anticipation avoids unpleasant surprises and streamlines organization.
For your information An agency that pilots its schedules on the fly loses an average of 15% of billable time per month. Imagine the impact on your annual sales.
Real-time visibility to maximize efficiency
Running an agency without real-time monitoring is like driving at night without headlights: you make progress, but at your peril. Projects go off track, teams disperse, and profitability takes a hit. A high-performance staffing tool gives you the visibility you need to stay on course.
Precise monitoring to avoid overruns
If time isn’t tracked, it isn’t billed. How many hours go by the wayside every month simply because they’re not tracked? Without a dedicated tool, you often discover too late that the time budget has exploded. The result: unbilled hours and slashed margins.
A good staffing tool enables you to:
Compare the time sold and the time actually spent, to detect any drift before it’s too late.
Identify productivity sinkholes (those tasks that consume an inordinate amount of time for little added value).
React quickly: adjust resources or negotiate with the customer before exceeding the initial budget.
A concrete example A project sold for 50 hours and already consuming 45 hours halfway through? The tool alerts you immediately. Without this visibility, you would have discovered the overrun… at closing.
The right person, in the right place, at the right time
Productivity is more than just the number of hours worked. It’s also (and above all) a question of matching. An overworked or poorly-matched employee means a project falls behind schedule and quality erodes.
With a dedicated tool, you can :
- Quickly visualize the availability and skills of your teams.
- Avoid mobilizing experts for tasks that are not part of their core business.
- Distribute the workload fairly to prevent overload and stress.
Practical advice : Color-code your schedule. A glance is all it takes to see who’s under-staffed, over-staffed or perfectly balanced.
Stop unbilled hours, stop free work
In an agency, the rush is constant. Deadlines come and go, teams get busy… but working more doesn’t mean earning more. Every untracked hour is an unbilled hour. By improvising, you let entire days slip by without any return on investment. And it’s your margins that suffer.
Transparency to protect your profitability
Without a tracking tool, it’s hard to know who’s doing what, how much time is being spent on it and, above all, whether these hours will be billed. Overwork becomes the norm, and your profitability evaporates.
With a powerful staffing tool, you can :
Track every hour spent to make sure nothing goes under the radar.
Receive alerts in the event of overruns, and adjust schedules before it’s too late.
Optimize organization to reduce stress, limit urgency and better manage the unexpected.
Back to the field An agency equipped with a staffing tool sees an average 20% reduction in unbilled hours. This translates directly into sales.
The solution for cost-effective, high-performance staffing
Running a blind agency is no longer an option. Between unbilled hours, chaotic schedules and overloaded teams, profitability can quickly spiral out of control. Furious puts you back in the driver’s seat.
Thanks to its integrated staffing tool, you gain greater clarity over resource allocation, time tracking and the profitability of each assignment. No more guesswork: you can see in real time who’s doing what, detect deviations before they become costly, and assign the right people to the right projects. It’s the perfect way to optimize productivity without sacrificing quality.
Stop letting your teams work for free or in a permanent state of emergency. Try Furious and turn your time management into a real growth lever.
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