The abrupt transition a few years ago to a work-from-home model, the challenge of offering more services, and in some cases, the burden of instituting salary freezes weren't easy waters to navigate. With inflation increasing and whispers of a potential recession on the horizon, your decision-making responsibilities aren't likely to get any easier anytime soon. No pressure, right?

We want to share three steps you can take right now to become more efficient as we head into 2023 to set your agency up for future success.
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These scenarios may pose the question of whether a modern Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution could improve the business. At this point, it can be countered with concerns about risk, disruption, and cost, which are all completely valid and addressable points. But all too often, a subjective acceptance of the status quo can be reached too early, shutting down any further consideration of a more thorough systems review.

Without a complete full-blown failure or an end-of-life situation with your existing IT systems, knowing at what point you need a modern ERP system, can be challenging.
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This eBook, prepared by experts from Epicor, takes a deep dive into how data can serve your manufacturing business.


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The focus of Epicor annual research is on the journey to cloud ERP and what businesses experience at every stage of technology adoption. From first contact with an ERP provider and evaluating a solution’s fit, to onboarding, go-live, and ongoing support. With most businesses running on a hybrid of cloud and on-premises solutions, Epicor wanted to understand their most important needs as they take on digital transformation.

The results reveal the most up to date picture of where cloud ERP adoption is today—and where it needs to go tomorrow.
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When reviewing the results of this year’s study, Hinge discovered four key advantages that stood out for successful high growth consulting firms vs their no growth peers: Technology, Talent, Marketing, and Strategy.

Let’s take a look into these keys advantages for consulting firms this year:
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Let’s take a closer look at 10 important aspects that all manufacturing companies evaluating ERP systems should keep in mind to achieve maximum benefits from their new business system:

Find a real ERP system that covers all your core processes
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Agency Leaders Share Optimism for 2022

The good news is that the collective attitude of these agency leaders, including CEOs, owners, and department heads, is essentially optimistic. The market recovery means demand for agency services (and, accordingly, budgets!) continues to rebound. In many ways, the year ahead has potential for more performance and profit than pre-pandemic times. This can be ascribed to a kind of “great awakening” we all experienced during the past few years. We collectively realized that operational efficiency and internal systems improvement had big bottom-line impact.
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It’s crucial to make sure your agency is working efficiently and properly nurturing the bottom line. Ensuring agency profitability isn’t as difficult as it may seem. Take these 10 actions and turn your agency into a well-oiled profitability machine.

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You want to give your agency’s project managers ready access to the information they need to develop an accurate, detailed scope of work. You also need to provide them with real-time information on burn rate and team efficiency so they are able to adjust fire, re-allocate resources, or, if necessary, to back to the client to discuss adjusting the budget if necessary.

Encompassing all these concerns, project managers also must know who on staff the best fit for a particular project is and whether or not they have bandwidth. The goal is to have the right person on the right project at exactly the right time. The consistent aspect for all of these concerns boils down to making sure your PMs have all the data they need to plan, staff and manage every project so that it satisfies client expectations while remaining as profitable as possible.
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Prospective employees can be choosy; current employees can comfortably pursue new opportunities. As a result, today’s agencies are compelled to create a workplace culture that attracts, trains and retains top-tier creative pros, otherwise they risk being trapped in a cycle of turnover and continual training that can decimate project quality and delivery.

Maintaining a strong nucleus of talent is critical to realizing the remaining aspects of Deltek’s Agency Roadmap. The reasons, once spelled out, are self-evident:
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