Turning an Operational Discipline Into a Growth Engine
Novigi has an impressive story. Since launching in 2016, they’ve scaled to 550 staff across six offices and two countries, while becoming the fastest-growing professional services firm on the AFR Fast 100 - their story is worth studying.
Tracking Time Off, the Missing Strategic Link in Your Resource Planning
”When new work comes in, we have the right people, ready to go. Winning work and protecting the team, we never have to choose just one.” How often can you confidently say the same? Facing resourcing questions about upcoming projects can sound simple, but if your schedules are built on assumptions and capacity is only estimated, face it, your resource planning is under-engineered!
Projectworks Product Update: January 2026
Happy New Year! To kick things off, we're sharing our new, smoother connection between Schedule, Resourcing, and Forecasting. Plus, do you use our QuickBooks Online or HubSpot integrations? We've added new QBO classes and enabled HubSpot Line Items to create Budgets in Projectworks, saving you valuable billable time.
Every consulting firm reaches a point in their growth journey where using spreadsheets to track hours and expenses becomes a liability. Especially as your staff and client work increases, cracks in your processes begin to form.
Every consulting leader I speak to is feeling it: the clock’s ticking. You’ve got to hit the numbers, deliver the projects, win the work - and on top of all that, get ahead of the AI wave before it wipes your firm out. Spoiler alert — I don’t have all the AI answers, or a five-step playbook. What I do have is a ton of trial and error, and some lightbulb moments from Episode 03’s Z Suite conversation with bdna COO Karyn Smith.
In a 2016 KPMG Global Transformation study, 96% of organizations reported they were currently undergoing business transformations.