I had the good fortune to present with some excellent fellow speakers at this year’s Resource Planning Summit in Nashville, TN.
Speakers were on hand from leading organizations to talk about good practices in resource planning that have helped them succeed, as well as challenges to look out for.
Several common themes emerged across the diverse presenters:
- Prioritization is essential to good resource planning
- Engagement across business units is key to allocating resources properly across the enterprise portfolio
- An ongoing cadence of portfolio reviews and resource allocation is necessary to keep things on track
- Paying attention to demand distribution and how people and money should be aligned across demand types can help ensure optimal resource utilization
- The human side of resource management cannot be underestimated. Resource optimization and productivity is as much a psychological issue as it is an alignment and capacity/demand issue.
