The Resource Management Institute conducted it's second survey on resource management inhibitors and has now expanded it to include four different project-based domains including professional/consulting services, enterprise/IT, product development and marketing agencies. The survey respondents included executives, resource and project managers, production managers and resource management office leadership. These project-based domains all share many of the same resource management challenges offering great perspectives leading to improved best practices.

Some of the key takeaways include:

• Overall process and automation technology continue to be opportunity areas for RMOs, while growing talent for more sophisticated RM environments we believe will continue to grow in importance.

• Process has always trumped tools when it comes to priority order for making important business transformation investments. With RM this concept is no exception. The RMI will continue to play an important role in industry process standardization with Just-in-Time Resourcing® and supporting training to aid the overall industry acceleration of progress in RM.

• Data will be a critical lynchpin for acceleration of progress with the RM discipline as reflected in this report indicating demand for better dashboards, additional analytics, improved data integration, and potential applications for artificial intelligence (AI).

This comprehensive resource management survey includes some key challenges for project-based teams. To view the full results including the full list of questions asked - click here.