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AS TRADITIONAL PM SOFTWARE FAILS, A NEW MOVEMENT TAKES SHAPE
[November 06, 2014]

AS TRADITIONAL PM SOFTWARE FAILS, A NEW MOVEMENT TAKES SHAPE


(City A.M. (UK) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Fed up with retyping data from software to email and countless hours in project status meetings, work teams are abandoning traditional project management for better visibility and collaboration.

In 2008, the programme management team at Trek Bicycle Corporation found themselves in a bad spot.

Thirty percent of their time was lost retyping data from their PM software into emails. Three project status meetings every week consumed even more time. Different tools in the hands of different teams were making it impossible to improve the situation.



"It was very hard to go back and remember exactly what caused us to be late," recalls Steve Malchow, Trek's VP of Operations.

3% OF THEIR TIME WAS LOST RETYPING DATA FROM THEIR PM SOFTWARE INTO EMAILS."Our annual loss from not being ready was literally millions in new revenue." Unfortunately, Trek isn't alone.


THE FAILURE OF TRADITIONAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT Across every industry, traditional project management tools are failing. Teams that turned to these tools to better manage their work are finding that, instead of increasing efficiency and visibility, their tools are only making their jobs harder. It only gets worse as teams become larger and globalised. Every new tool means more resources wasted gathering data—more productivity lost.

Thankfully, a new movement in work management is taking shape.

WORK MANAGEMENT FOR THE ENTERPRISE Led by SaaS company AtTask, this new movement—called enterprise work management —presents a surprisingly simple solution: a single solution all team members can work in.

The ideal enterprise work management solution covers the entire work lifecycle, from request to collaboration to reports. Repeatable work processes are automated. In turn, the solution gathers and provides real-time comprehensive work data to all team members.

TREK REMOVED THEIR BOTTLENECKS GAVE THEIR TEAM MEMBERS BACK 12HOURS PER WEEK AND BOOSTED THEIR ONLINE TIME RATINGS BY 60 PERCENT The benefits of such a solution can be seen in the rest of Trek's story. Using AtTask across their enterprise, Trek removed their bottlenecks, gave their team members back 12 hours per week, and boosted their on-time ratings by 60 percent.

AT A GLANCE CHALLENGES • Poor project data visibility resulted in significant product delays that cost millions in new revenue • Manual, time- consuming processes prevented effective collaboration between global team members • Lack of alignment led to improper resource management and bottlenecks BENEFITS • Increased efficiency—On-time product delivery rate increased from 50% to 80%, generating millions in new revenue • Greater productivity—Team members regained 30% of their time for innovation • Reduced meeting time—Weekly project status meetings that were typically 1 to 1 ½ hours are now 15-20 minutes TO LEARN MORE ABOUT ATTASK, VISIT: attask.com/trek or call +44 [0] 845 5083771 (c) 2014 City A.M.

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