The Replicon Blog

Covering the latest tips, trends, and best practices for HR, project management and workforce management.

How to Manage a Large Team in India From the USA

I’m the founder/Co-CEO of a SaaS company that has scaled to tens of millions in ARR and lists in the top 100 software companies. Our objective is to grow to US$100M over the next few years.
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How Large Services Organizations Traverse To the Latest Tech Landscape: Proven Case Studies of Data-driven Organizations

This blog is a part of the two-part blog series featuring case studies that demonstrate how Replicon helped global services organizations accelerate digital transformation with accurate time tracking …

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Case Study Series: How Services Organizations Succeeded With Accurate Time-Tracking

This blog is a part of the two-part blog series featuring case studies that demonstrate how Replicon helped global services organizations accelerate digital transformation with accurate time-tracking …

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Overcoming the Great Resignation Using Intelligent PSAs

Data indicates that an unprecedented number of employees have quit their jobs voluntarily since the early 2020s. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics suggests that over 47 million workers have left their workplaces voluntarily in America alone.
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Scenario Planning: A Detailed Guide

Scenario planning in business is a relatively new concept that is gaining massive traction. Its ability to prepare companies to face the upheavals of an ever-evolving marketplace remains unmatched. Learn how it can future-proof your organization and how you can employ it efficiently.
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How Can Large Services Organizations Navigate the New Tech Landscape: A Case Study in Accelerated Digital Transformation?

This blog is part of the digital transformation journey of a very Large IT Enterprise and their journey to modernizing their time tracking ecosystem. Check out part 2 and part 3 .

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Productivity Formula: How to Calculate Workplace Productivity?

Organizations and product managers need productivity calculations to utilize resources, drive growth, and make hiring decisions. Learn how to use the productivity formula and some practical tips that you must consider.
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Exploring The 3rd Wave Of Resourcing At The Resource Management Global Symposium

Optimal resource management is often the key to profitability and sustainable growth for any project-based organization. Unfortunately, with rapid changes at the workplace, the labor markets, and industry conditions, managing resources efficiently in the modern era has become tremendously challenging.
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4 Key Steps to Achieve Digital Acceleration for Professional Services Organizations

Today’s world is rapidly moving into a technological era, and seemingly at an increasing pace. It has become imperative for professional services organizations to jump on the digital transformation bandwagon or get left behind.
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Time Blocking: A Step by Step Guide to Manage your Time

Work-life balance is important, and it can be achieved when you can plan how you are spending your day. You should consider all the time you are currently spending on different tasks each day. Once you have details, you can plan your next day by blocking time for each task as per the priority.
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Remote Project Management: An Easy Guide

Remote project management is here to stay. Therefore, understanding its workings, advantages, and challenges is critical for project managers. This blog offers insights into its various aspects, besides some practical tips to execute it well.
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Reduce Revenue Leakage and Drive Efficiency in Professional Services

Regardless of size or industry type, there is always a threat of revenue leaking away. The revenue sipping out often goes unnoticed making a major impact on productivity and growth of a company.The blog talks about what, why and how you can identify, prevent, and stop revenue leakage in professional services business.
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10 Emerging IT Trends That Will Drive Digital Business in 2022

The business landscape evolves continuously, fostering new growth areas and possibilities for organizations. We have witnessed an influx of cutting-edge technologies for years that have enabled businesses to become digital enterprises and carve their niche in the highly competitive environment. As the business world optimistically looks forward to the post-pandemic era, we explore emerging IT trends that will continue to shape the future of businesses across verticals.
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Why Large Organizations Should Use A Project Time Tracking Platform: 6 Signs That You Need One ASAP!

Large organizations across verticals face distinct challenges while managing multiple projects. As there are numerous aspects – planning, scheduling, timesheet management, quality metrics management, and customer helpdesk management – of a project, organizations need to manage each aspect meticulously to achieve excellence. That’s where project time tracking can be quite helpful for large organizations. Project time tracking allows you to track your employees’ time spent on different tasks of a project. Moreover, it also helps project managers and relevant stakeholders keep a check on the progress of all projects. This blog sheds light on 6 notable signs that you need a project time tracking platform immediately.
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Why Buying a Global Time Tracking Solution Can Benefit Large Services Organizations

The driving force behind mission-critical functions is the time tracking for an organization. To keep client billing, payroll, project costing, resource allocation, and more running smoothly and efficiently, you need several key features in your time tracking platform. Therefore, only buying the right time tracking solution can benefit large services organizations.
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Top 12 Project Management Challenges & How to Overcome Them

As remote work goes mainstream, we face project management challenges that are new in magnitude and complexity. With the right project management solutions, you can overcome these challenges and pave the way for project success.
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10 Remote Workforce Trends 2022: What the Future Holds?

It is no surprise that COVID-19 has compelled organizations worldwide to embrace remote working. Surprisingly, this culture has bestowed multiple strategic benefits to businesses worldwide, and that's why it is believed that remote workforce culture would keep getting immense acceptance across verticals. This blog sheds light on the key remote workforce trends that will determine the future of remote working.
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Why Enterprises Struggle to Automate Professional Services Processes

There are several reasons why enterprises struggle to automate professional services processes. But with an automation solution, firms can leverage pre-built workflows to automate processes and overcome automation challenges more confidently.
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5 Features You Need in a Secure Time and Payroll System

In recent years, there has been a definitive shift towards cloud-based time tracking solutions to capture and process the time data needed for critical business functions such as payroll, resource man…

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How Can Large Services Organizations Create Effective Estimates for New Projects with Our Time Tracking Platform?

Replicon’s configurable project time tracking solution automatically calculates the project cost estimate while accounting for all project hours in real time and controlling project budgets dynamically. You can even leverage historical trends like performance, costs, and hours along with real-time insights to create profitable project forecasts.
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10 Project Management Trends Emerging in 2022

Over the years, the project management landscape has seen drastic changes that led organizations from sticky notes to enterprise SaaS solutions. Discover the project management trends that will shape the way project managers approach their roles and responsibilities in the coming years.
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How to Keep Your Bigger Projects From Derailing This Holiday Season

Projects can slow down to a crawl during the holiday season with employees taking time off and being busy with the festivities. Learn the right strategies from industry experts to keep your projects on track for a successful outcome.
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How a Fortune 500 Company Modernized Their Time Tracking to a Single Unified Time Intelligence® Platform

The 21st-century large professional services firms are re-imaging their ecosystem with digitization. They are embedding new technologies to drive innovation and digital architectures. As a result, firms are preparing for competitive bids to win projects, reduce margins, be more operationally responsive to gain higher profitability, and remain pertinent.
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CFOs: Here’s How You Can Capture Lost Revenue for Large Services Organizations

For a business, any loss of revenue is always dreadful but revenue leakage is particularly frightening. However, there are steps that can be taken to identify and reclaim the lost revenue through intelligent revenue management.
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5 Time Management Strategies for a Thriving 2022

It's tough to take control of every minute, especially when so many interruptions are around. Learn more about time management and top time management strategies to help you achieve success and improve productivity with remote and hybrid workforces.
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Going Hybrid? These Hybrid Work Models Will Work For Your Enterprise

The pandemic has evolved the ways how organizations used to operate. As a result, today, employees demand more flexibility, and companies need to meet these requirements without losing on communication. Learn which hybrid work model will make more sense to you.
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Top 5 Mobile Timesheets On the Go to Make You More Productive in 2022

Mobile timesheet app with GPS geofencing accurately tracks hours and locations of mobile employees using any phone from any job location. Here are the top five mobile timesheet applications you need to work on the go in 2022.
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How can Large Service Organizations Maximize Resource Utilization to Drive Higher Project Profitability?

Large services organizations are facing several challenges in their business. On one hand, they need to maintain a flexible hybrid workplace that supports collaborations and can bridge the gap and on the other hand, they need to ensure seamless employee experience, which are the critical components of any business.
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Industry Research: The Secret to Project Profitability for Large Services Organizations

Ever try to manage a global project only to discover that half of your team is still manually logging time in project timesheets while the other half is spread across multiple legacy or native-grown s…

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Time Card Calculator Features to Look For in Your Time Card Software

Payroll is not a one-size-fits-all: continuous labor rule changes/additions, accuracy issues, and more impact payroll and its operations. However, your huddle can be taken away through a time-intelligent timecard calculator. Learn about the must have features of a time card calculator that will change your game.
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Paid time off: Your State-by-State Guide to Paid Time Off Laws in Major Cities

The United States does not mandate certain kinds of paid time off at the federal level but states are free to do so. Knowing what state level paid time off laws apply to their jurisdiction can help organizations formulate time off policies accordingly while ensuring compliance.
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Why Large Services Organizations Need to Prioritize a Connected Ecosystem for Growth?

Joseph Schumpeter, one of Austria’s top economists, in the 1940s coined the word “creative destruction” to describe how technology was changing lives, but even he could not have gues…

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Project Portfolio Management for Enterprises: Everything You Need to Know

Enterprises and services organizations need a way to connect all their disparate project and resource data spread across multiple systems used by different teams and departments. With project portfolio management, enterprises can strategically manage projects, resources, and budgets to ensure successful project execution while supporting the overarching business objectives.
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5 Ways Time Is Lost at Your Organization and How to Fix It

Although time is limited, most organizations fail at leveraging this asset to its full potential, costing them hundreds of thousands of dollars every year. Learning what causes them to lose time and how they can fix it will be an essential step for organizations looking to use their time correctly.
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The Best Pricing Models for Professional Services with the Highest ROI

Pricing models can affect services firms' ability to generate revenue and maintain steady margins. Knowing what each of these models can offer your services firm will be key to creating a sustainable and competitive financial strategy for long-term growth and profitability.
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For Global Professional Services Firms, Remote & Hybrid Workforce Means More Compliance Issues

The rapid transformation of business models and digital innovation has brought change across the professional services industry. Most professional services firms have adopted working remotely and need modern tools to manage business processes, projects, people, & revenues in a highly competitive market and drive future growth and profitability.
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Tracking Project Hours vs. Tracking Productivity: Do You Have to Choose?

Every leader wants to know how their teams can operate as efficiently as possible. And unfortunately, it’s impossible to know that just by intuition. Learn how your employees can be more productive when they know what they’re working towards, and how you can ensure that by tracking time accurately.
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Common Pitfalls in Billable Hours for Professional Services and How to Avoid Them

For professional services organization, maximizing billable hours can directly improve profitability and revenue. However, many fail to optimize this area. Here are some common pitfalls around billable time and the best practices that can be applied to avoid them.
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Do Everything in One Place — Time Tracking for Microsoft Dynamics

Replicon integrates with MS Dynamics to provide a centralized view of all clients and project data. Get better project cost visibility with real time sync of time data, accuracy in project expense, and billing and invoicing data — all in one place.
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How to Do Employee PTO Tracking Right and Build a Great PTO Policy

There are many different reasons as to why your employee takes time off from work, ranging from sickness to personal time. Learn more about PTO, its benefits, tips to choose the right PTO system, how to build a great PTO policy for your business, along with tips from experts.
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How A Lack of Insight Into Time Tracking Maxes Out Your Project Budgets

If you just felt your stomach give a familiar flip-flop, you’re in expensive company. Cost overruns are a way of life when it comes to project management, and most project teams have certainly found themselves on the wrong end of a set budget. That’s normal.
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