Maturity
Score Index

Your Personalized Guide
To Profitable Growth

100% free | takes up to 10 min
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Trying to figure out what should be the next move to improve margin?

Take part in the MSI, get actionable insights based on gaps in your processes,
and improve profitability by up to 33%.

Identify operations impacting margin most

    Get actionable insights based on your actual maturity level

      Prioritize, implement, and increase margin

        100% free | takes up to 10 min

        MSI is your on-demand self-assessment tool that uncovers gaps stopping your IT services firm from profitable growth

        100% free | takes up to 10 min

        Discover drivers behind outstanding profitability and implement them in your IT services firm

        Based on more than 300+ responses discover why some companies
        achieve great results while others are still on their journey to operational excellence.

        Level 1

        • Financial information only from accounting
        • No time-tracking process implemented
        • +6 more

        Level 2

        • Cost tracking from different perspectives
        • Accuracy of working time estimation to actuals at the level of over 70%
        • +6 more + all level 1
        Congrats!
        🎉 You are here!
        You are among the 20% of companies that have reached level 3!

        Level 3

        • Ability to plan long-term employee utilization (at least 3 months in advance)
        • Forecasting 1st degree profitability on projects
        • +13 more + all level 2

        Level 4

        • The company monitors project margins, taking into account corporate overheads
        • Measuring costs of unutilized people, and non-billable projects
        • +8 more + all level 3

        Level 5

        • Creating utilization and profitability forecasts taking into account various scenarios (uncertain projects, uncertain allocations)
        • Introduced utilization goals for each person, broken down by seniority and position as well as profitability goals for each project
        • +15 more + all level 4
        100% free | takes up to 10 min

        Maturity Score Index proves improving profitability doesn't need to be hard.

        Market recession is already here.

        While a few years ago, acquiring new projects was fairly easy, nowadays, it has become harder and harder.

        That means taking care of profitability and finding a perfect balance between people's workload, the economic ambitions of the company, and market demand will be crucial to develop a scalable and crisis-proof firm.

        While talking with more than 300 Executives managing IT services firms from the European market, we’ve noticed a huge need to benchmark and understand what differentiates high-growing and highly profitable businesses from others.

        Get insights from IT industry experts

        Understand what operations helped other managers
        from the leading IT services firms in Europe.

        Elevating the Maturity Score Index is essential and a "must-have" requirement.

        Failing to enhance operational maturity during growth can lead to low profitability, cash flow issues, and vulnerability to market crises.

        ‍For instance, Transition Technologies PSC's transformation over the last decade, moving from a scenario where a single customer contributed 99% of revenue to one where the most significant customer accounts for 15%, underscores the imperative of rapid development in operational maturity.

        Marcin Wilczura
        Chief Operating Officer

        It is fascinating to see how big of an impact active work with utilization, especially proactively managing the bench, can have on financial performance.

        We have seen first-hand the positive aspects of setting utilization KPIs and their optimization on the decision-making process in the company. What surprised me most was the level of influence forecasting uncertain allocations has on profitability.

        Coincidentally or not, it is also one of the most complicated things to implement.

        Daniel Ackermann
        Chief Executive Officer

        MSI plays an essential role in facilitating operational excellence efforts.

        Having participated in over 100 implementations, I have noticed that companies focusing on operational excellence achieve rapid yet stable growth.

        These companies can also respond quickly to changing market needs, translating into visible financial successes. Standardization of processes, the introduction of measurability, and effective data management enable faster identification of areas for improvement.

        MSI provides knowledge that improves operations and simultaneously allows for adaptation to the specificity of the industry.

        Tom Gmur
        Head of Client Success

        Insights based on the biggest European Profitability and Utilization Report designed for IT Services Firms.

        More than 300+ responses from the leading IT services firms in Europe along with expert comments and analysis.

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        The survey is fully encrypted (RSA 2048) and meets all GDPR, and SOC2 criteria.

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        Self-assessment is prepared automatically based on the algorithm coded in the survey.

        Takes up to 10’

        The survey should not take more than 10 minutes of your time.
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        About Primetric by BigTime

        Primetric by BigTime is a platform used by managers from more than 2,700 professional services firms and leading IT service companies from over 15 countries. Many of them are included as the TOP 50 companies of Polish Clutch and the fastest-growing IT service companies recognized by Financial Times, Deloitte, and Forbes in Europe.

        Our mission is to help managers to track and forecast the profitability of projects, clients, and the entire company, as well as the workload of billable people (billable and non-billable utilization level) while catching the right balance between these indicators. It is the main source of knowledge about operations in an IT service company and a kind of "command center" for the CEO / COO and Delivery and Finance teams.

        2,700 professional services firms
        in 15 countries
        used by C-Level Execs of IT services firms in Europe

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