Author: Tabea Jerchel
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The future of resource management – AI agents and hybrid teams?
Resource management (RM) is an essential task in IT services and consulting companies. Larger companies employ resource managers who take care of scheduling employees and assigning them to projects. RM has largely been spared from AI automation so far.  AI will change RM in two steps: 1. Resource managers will be replaced by AI agents…
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Skill-Based Resource Management for Consulting Firms: Staff Projects Efficiently with decÃdalo
Imagine the following scenario: An IT consulting firm with more than 150 consultants has won a new project. The project manager has already been appointed. Now, they need to staff the project team. During the proposal phase, resource availability was not checked, as this is not easily possible for the sales team.Once the project manager…
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Lessons learned from migrating to AI skill management
With version 3 of our skill and resource management solution decÃdalo, we made a radical change. We replaced the skills catalog with a Large Language Model (LLM). For over 15 years, the skill catalog was a central part of decÃdalo. Now it is gone (mostly). Here is what we learned from migrating our customers to…