Gisch Consulting works with project-based businesses across architecture, engineering, construction, creative and professional services. We come in when the processes, reporting or software no longer match the work being done. We look at the people doing that work first, then the business choices and the systems around them.
A project manager can send a PDF because it is quick. If finance then has to print it, highlight the figures and re-key them into a spreadsheet, the same decision has saved work in one place and created it somewhere else. We look at those handoffs before changing the software.
Observation often exposes a process problem or a business decision that has never been made. Those need attention before the system is selected or configured. Findings can take the work back and forth. We assess the system after we understand what is happening around it.
Messy rarely means one spectacular failure. More often, people have kept the work moving by adding a spreadsheet, a manual check or another version of the report. Eventually nobody can see the whole process. These are some of the ways that shows up.
It's difficult to see project profitability or job costing.
Project management and financial reporting tell different stories.
Teams track work in different ways: none of them talk to each other.
Capacity planning and resource visibility are unclear.
Reporting relies on manual spreadsheets that take days to pull together.
Growth has made existing processes difficult to manage.
We begin with the current work rather than assuming the software is the problem. Sometimes the useful result is a better process or a decision that has been left implicit. Sometimes the system does need to change.
Over a long-term engagement, we worked alongside the team to audit WorkflowMax data, tidy inconsistencies and align director, project and finance reporting as the business grew.
Using their existing WorkflowMax export process, we built a practical reporting model so leadership could see volume, conversion and value trends in one place.
We mapped the end-to-end planning workflow and co-designed a clearer future state for rostering, project allocation and reporting with their technical leadership team.
“We went down a sink hole trying to tackle the integration of WorkflowMax ourselves. Then, we found Gisch Consulting and things got a whole lot simpler and a lot quicker. Anita saved us infinite hours in guesswork and immediately reduced our levels of frustration. She understood our small business swiftly and took away the complexity of software integration. Anita is also a clear and patient trainer and developed easy to follow instructions for ongoing use. Thanks Anita.”
“Anita is a knowledgeable, practical, patient, trustworthy and highly responsive consultant in her expert field, with notably excellent communications skills. She navigates technical challenges for sophisticated clients and those with a lower skills base alike with ease, providing training knowledge that sticks.”
“Anita has an unusual ability to understand how a business actually works. The changes we made to our systems gave us a much clearer picture of our project performance.”
“Working with Gisch Consulting helped us connect our project management and financial reporting. We now have reliable information about project profitability.”
“The improvements were practical and achievable. Within a few weeks we had better visibility across our projects and less manual reporting.”