Cora SPM and Capacity Planning
Cora’s Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM) module has been designed specifically to address capacity planning because it’s one of the main pain points that our clients have always asked us about.
Cora makes you the ‘control tower’, digitizing all your data and documents so you can organize them all through the one, central hub. It streamlines your processes and seamlessly integrates your systems and any existing software, to ensure that everyone is working in the same, standardized way.
This allows you to perform those inventories of your various capacities in the knowledge that all that data will be reliable and up to date, and that everyone who needs to will have easy and immediate access to it.
You can then use the Scenario Comparison tools to explore what-if scenarios around possible future demand. What would happen if, for instance, you moved a project’s start date from the second to the third quarter? Could that new skills’ availability be more profitably used elsewhere, or would the cost of delaying that project outweigh those increased margins?
This means you can then compare projects around key performance criteria, including project delivery, department served, strategic alignment, risk, resourcing, or by building a customized metric and visualization. And different stakeholders can compare specific scenarios based on the metrics that matter most to them.
Everything can be easily visualized using graphs and Gantt charts, and all charts and data points are dynamically linked so everything gets automatically updated.
All of which will improve your project prioritization and help you to more effectively match your capacity with your current and future demand. Which will mean you significantly improve the ROI your assets and resources generate, both in individual projects and across the whole of your portfolio.
Capacity planning is just one of the areas that Cora SPM will help you reduce costs and waste and increase margins and revenue. https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/us/Documents/about-deloitte/us-about-deloitte-burnout-survey-infographic.pdf
