The engineering industry typically struggles with low margins, and according to Hans Jørgen Nielsen, DGE earlier faced a challenge in making sure time was not wasted on projects with low profits.
According to Hans Jørgen Nielsen, it is essential that consultancies have access to key figures in real time and a constant overview of the project finances to keep focus on the business:
”When consultancies reach a certain size, they must have a digital project management tool. We live on selling hours, and everything must be tracked. With digital project management, we have an overview of everything we earn on sub-projects all the time,” Hans Jørgen Nielsen says and further explains.
”We are now more aware of how we manage the business, e.g. how many internal meetings we have and which projects we can invoice. With our key figure reports, we always know how far we are on specific KPIs.”
Hans Jørgen Nielsen estimates that DHG has saved time by integrating the system with the company’s financial system, Navision.
”Before TimeLog, we often experienced double work, when we needed to enter information from Excel in a different system,” Hans Jørgen Nielsen says and adds ”The business systems have to integrate. It is a must in a modern consultancy.”
DGE are satisfied with the implementation process and is currently implementing TimeLog in the subsidiaries in Lithuania and Sweden.
DGE is an environmental and engineering consultancy with 60 employees in Denmark. They work with environmental sustainability among other things within construction. They are a part of DGE Group, which is present in Scandinavia and The Baltics with 150 employees in total.