{"id":126329,"date":"2024-07-24t12:02:23","date_gmt":"2024-07-24t16:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/?p=126329"},"modified":"2024-11-20t18:04:39","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20t23:04:39","slug":"five-areas-to-ground-new-metrics-other-than-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/2024\/07\/24\/five-areas-to-ground-new-metrics-other-than-time\/","title":{"rendered":"five areas to ground new metrics other than time"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/strong><\/p>\n you need to measure your progress and success, but not by the hour.<\/strong><\/p>\n by jody padar<\/i> it may sound ridiculous, but the only people who are married to timesheets are professional services firms staffed by people who spend their professional lifetimes building their knowledge. every other company in the world has figured out how to sell and price products or services without relying on timesheets.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n why do professional services firms believe you should sell knowledge in increments of time? ron baker, an accounting visionary and author of \u201cfirm of the future,\u201d once asked, \u201cwhen you\u2019re a knowledge worker, should you be selling your time?\u201d i don\u2019t think so.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n baker went on to say, \u201ctimesheets are the cancer in the firm, and the longer you hang on to that timesheet mentality, the harder it is to change and the harder it is to go through business model reinvention and adaptation.\u201d<\/p>\n the more you turn to automation, the more antiquated timesheets become. it takes a firmwide commitment to change and embrace a digital transformation.<\/p>\n once you\u2019ve restructured your pricing model, the hour is replaced by deliverables and client satisfaction. now, it\u2019s time to devise other metrics for measuring progress and success.<\/p>\n it\u2019s more realistic to phase out timesheets over time rather than all at once. follow a good change management strategy and start with a pilot program within your firm to identify and apply new metrics. if you\u2019re a sole practitioner or a smaller firm, stop using timesheets immediately and adopt metrics that reflect your firm\u2019s new goals and client-centric orientation.<\/p>\n these new metrics should be grounded in several areas:<\/p>\n be aware and wary of your timesheets, as they are filled with inaccurate data. other things will make you more profitable. turn your focus to those. embrace thinking about timesheets as a limiting factor because you only have so many hours to bill.<\/p>\n move forward one step at a time. if you\u2019re overwhelmed by the prospect of eliminating timesheets, just remember that it is an incremental process. begin with a pilot program and only move as fast as everyone\u2019s confidence builds in the new model. once you start seeing greater profitability from this new pricing model, enthusiasm will grow, and timesheets will fade into the past.<\/p>\n you could even have a timesheet-burning party. (i\u2019m joking, though i have been to one, and everybody got a t-shirt). kidding aside, you must consider how you will slowly sunset them out of your firm and build profitability in other ways. as you work your way through a pilot program with a handful of clients, you\u2019ll see what works and what doesn\u2019t. as the program expands, timesheets will organically become irrelevant, and these other metrics will become more important.<\/p>\n at a certain point, you\u2019ll no longer fear the light at the end of the tunnel is an onrushing train. rather, it\u2019s the light from a more profitable future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" you need to measure your progress and success, but not by the hour.<\/strong>
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