In most large organizations, it can become problematic when multiple teams are vying for limited resources.
For instance if there is one expert on quality assurance for your entire organization it may take much more planning to ensure that person is not overallocated and to help them avoid suffering burnout. Planning plays a vital role in larger organizations with complex business lines, numerous teams, and many potentially limited skill sets.
Resource planning and management and leveraging the right technology to communicate with other areas of your organization are essential to prioritize projects. It’s vital for you to have the visibility to connect the right skill sets, capabilities, and available resources to the right projects at the right time.
Having a resource management system that gives a bird's eye view of all of your resources at any given time is key to being able to prioritize and communicate accordingly.
Establishing standardized best practices increases visibility into resources and can also help organizations navigate intricacies that smaller businesses may not encounter when trying to reach their full potential.
Ongoing company wide communication between team leaders, project team members, and key stakeholders is also paramount to planning, prioritizing, allocating, and shifting resources. All it takes is one key person to be on a different page for resources to be misallocated.