Utilization directly impacts consultancy profitability. This Excel dashboard integrates with time tracking data to calculate and visualize consultant utilization rates, comparing billable versus non-billable hours, identifying underutilized capacity, and forecasting utilization based on scheduled project work. Features individual consultant views showing weekly utilization trends and portfolio view comparing utilization across the team. The target setting module establishes utilization goals by role level and tracks performance against targets.

Includes analysis of non-billable time categories (business development, training, administrative) helping identify optimization opportunities. The capacity planning section shows available consultant hours for new projects, informing proposal decisions. Alert functions highlight consultants at risk of burnout from excessive utilization or underutilization requiring business development or training time. Particularly valuable for firms like Cloud Mandarin managing consultant capacity professionally. Available via cloudmandarin.com, it provides management visibility essential for maximizing profitability while maintaining sustainable consultant workloads and work-life balance.

Consultant Utilization Dashboard