Who We Serve

Empowering project management teams and the IT groups who support them has been LoadSpring Solutions' mission since day one. Our clients have hailed from organizations large and small, public and private, some with as many as 5000 users, others with as few as 5.

Empowerment Through Focus

Within the broad spectrum of project management, we've found it most effective to specialize in hosting solutions for five distinct project management sub-sectors:

• Architecture/Engineering/Construction (AEC)
• Energy/Utilities
• Heavy Equipment Manufacturing
• Other Manufacturing
• Financial Services
• Aerospace
• Government
• Real Estate Development
• Other

This is not to say that generic project management solutions have no benefit. But our clients have found our specialization to be more valuable in the long run, because projects in each sub-sector:

• Typically exhibit unique lifecycle models
• Require different planning and control methods, systems and tools
• Use different terminologies
• Demand different knowledge, skills and experience from the project managers, external project team members and IT support teams
• Place different emphases on detailed aspects of planning, scheduling, cost estimating, reporting, controlling, executing and closing.

Going beyond access all the way to empowerment demands sensitivity to all these issues. It's vital to the project management team. And it's essential to our becoming a trusted resource for internal IT teams.

Project-Driven Versus Project-Dependent Organizations

A critical distinction to make when configuring Web-hosted project management solutions is between two basic classes of project management organizations. Each is nuanced when it comes to solution development, security/support requirements and deployment strategy.

1. Project-driven organizations—are those whose primary business comprises projects, i.e., they bid for work on a project-by-project basis. Architecture, engineering, construction, telecommunications systems, and most professional services firms are good examples.
2. Project-dependent organizations—grow by providing goods and services as their mainstream business, not projects per se. Projects within these organizations are primarily internally sponsored and funded. Examples include manufacturing, financial services, and transportation firms as well as universities, hospitals and other institutions.

The bottom line is that one-size-fits-all solutions cannot serve these two very different organizational types. Pinpointing your project classification really helps in defining the optimum hosted solution for your organization.