Overcommitting and Underutilizing Resources is Risky Business

Many companies approve more ideas than they can execute due to a lack of clear resource capacity visibility. This leads to stretched resources, elongated cycle times, missed business opportunities, reduced margins, and loss of revenue. The 2014 Resource Management and Capacity Planning Benchmark Study discovered that top-performing companies are emphasizing people, processes, and tools to mature their interrelated areas of resource management and capacity planning. These companies are significantly less likely to overcommit resources than their lower maturity counterparts. By having a holistic view into both pipeline demand and resource capacity, improving estimating and conducting what-if scenarios, obtaining access to real-time data, and conducting continuous capacity planning, companies can improve their maturity and reap measurable benefits.