CASE STUDY: RESOURCE OPTIMIZATION Challenge: Stacy, Director of Internal Audit (IA) Professional Practice Group, is responsible for 22 global resources delivering 46 IA, 104 SOX and 18 Compliance projects to support the Annual Audit Plan. Her current tools are spreadsheets, email and status calls. Current Approach & Problems: As with prior years, in 2017, Stacy has estimated the hours of resource availability (including holidays / vacations), hours for each project, start and completed deadlines, and allocated resources to projects. However, she is deeply concerned about the problems the team is running into in completing projects as scheduled and missing commitments to the Audit Committee and external auditors. Resources are frequently over / under loaded for the week

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