{"id":1341,"date":"2018-05-28T05:17:54","date_gmt":"2018-05-28T05:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/synergyhome.azurewebsites.net\/?p=1341"},"modified":"2022-09-19T16:16:01","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T06:16:01","slug":"more-time-for-clients-how-technology-helps-john-coward-architects-directors-focus-on-clients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totalsynergy.com\/more-time-for-clients-how-technology-helps-john-coward-architects-directors-focus-on-clients\/","title":{"rendered":"More time for clients \u2014 how technology helps John Coward Architects directors focus on clients"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t<div class=\"content-row row no-padding-top\" style=\"border-color: #ededed; background-color: #fff;\">\n\t\t<div class=\"row-bounds\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"single ww \">\n\t\t\t\t<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncowardarchitects.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Coward Architects<\/a>\u00a0(JCA) director <a href=\"http:\/\/totalsynergy.com\/customers\/mike-darwell-john-coward-architects\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mike Darwell<\/a> knew there were ways to make the practice more efficient in project delivery. In particular, he wanted to improve how the team of 12 (including four architects and five technical staff) managed\u00a0<a href=\"\/features\/email-management\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">emails<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"\/features\/timesheets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">timesheets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Up until January 2018, they used spreadsheets for timesheets and\u00a0<a href=\"\/features\/invoices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">invoicing<\/a>, and filed emails manually in a central server.<\/p>\n<p>Each director spent, on average, five hours per week filing emails. 16 hours per week were spent by a staff member doing admin to gather all the timesheets together, record them in a central document and create invoices.<\/p>\n<p>JCA installed Synergy in February and had the whole company using it within three weeks. They immediately saved those 16 hours of admin time with integrated timesheets and invoicing, and Mike Darwell \u2014 one of five directors \u2014 saved over five hours a week with email filing.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how they achieved those crucial time savings, and more.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"\/synergy-enterprise\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4307\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Synergy-project-management-Enterprise-features.png\" alt=\"Synergy Enterprise \u2014 find out more\" width=\"855\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totalsynergy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/Synergy-project-management-Enterprise-features.png 855w, https:\/\/totalsynergy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/Synergy-project-management-Enterprise-features-300x70.png 300w, https:\/\/totalsynergy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/Synergy-project-management-Enterprise-features-768x180.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<h3>ARCHITECTURE PRACTICE MANAGEMENT<\/h3>\n<p>JCA director Mike Darwell said the practice transferred from a paper-based system of time and invoicing to spreadsheets around 2005.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe kind-of had a lag of systems and office protocols that had been paper-based that we transferred onto Excel spreadsheets,\u201d Mike said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEach spreadsheet then went to one of our receptionists who typed that up onto the job timesheet, which then went to the company secretary who transferred all those entries into the project timesheets that generated the invoices and paid the staff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sound familiar? This is a consistent setup for small architecture practices around the world. Hours and hours of time being consumed across the whole company \u2014 from directors, project managers, designers, and administrative staff \u2014 through manual systems.<\/p>\n<p>After reading\u00a0<a href=\"\/blog\/interview-how-technology-is-helping-mvl-architects-grow\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a story of another architecture firm that had adopted Synergy<\/a>\u00a0for its practice and project management, Mike convinced the three other JCA directors to give Synergy a go.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince we started using Synergy, we\u2019ve probably saved at least two whole days of admin per week counted across all technical staff,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe person at reception who was transferring all of our timesheets to the jobs would typically spend the whole of Monday doing just that. We\u2019ve freed up their entire Monday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1631 size-full\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/technology-helps-jca-focus-on-clients-list.jpg?_t=1533706349\" alt=\"Technology gives John Coward Architects directors more time to focus on clients.\" width=\"681\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totalsynergy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/technology-helps-jca-focus-on-clients-list.jpg 681w, https:\/\/totalsynergy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/technology-helps-jca-focus-on-clients-list-300x174.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve also ironed out human error, because we found a lot of time that was unbilled,\u201d Mike said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI went through every timesheet after we&#8217;d made the switch to Synergy. It took a while, but I wanted to do the exercise to see what time we hadn&#8217;t invoiced. It was a lot. We&#8217;ve removed the errors with Synergy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe driver for trying Synergy was to save time. But what we found was the previous system was flawed as well. So, it&#8217;s been great. The other reason we were looking at Synergy was email.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>THE TIME DRAIN OF MANAGING PROJECT EMAILS<\/h3>\n<p>All project-based consulting businesses send and receive a lot of emails. Most architects and directors we speak to detest email, but it remains a vital part of communication and documentation in design project delivery.<\/p>\n<p>Darwell said JCA runs an Exchange server for centrally filing emails. All directors file emails\u00a0according to job and year so they all have access.\u00a0\u201cWe don\u2019t print emails anymore or save PDF copies,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe receive so many emails\u2026 It takes maybe 30 seconds to save an email as a document and when you\u2019re getting 200-odd emails per day, there just isn\u2019t the time to keep doing that. As directors, we end up spending time in evenings filing our project emails to the central Exchange server.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow with the Synergy Outlook plugin, I can just hit the file-to-Synergy button and Synergy knows which\u00a0<a href=\"\/features\/projects\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">project<\/a>\u00a0to save the email to because I\u2019ve put the project number into the subject heading \u2014 which we did anyway \u2014 and it\u2019s filed as a\u00a0<a href=\"\/features\/documents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">document<\/a>\u00a0in Synergy straight away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat means two things \u2014 anybody in the office can access that email from any of their workstations \u2014or from anywhere, with their phone if they want \u2014 and it means we&#8217;re saving a centralised email in one place, next to the project. Everything becomes project specific.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we need any data for a project \u2014 be that a drawing, a file note, a letter, an email \u2014 we can now go through Synergy to the projects, rather than go to the Exchange server to look for an email, or to the CAD file on the server to look for a drawing. We&#8217;re going to one place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmail filing alone has the potential to save me four to five hours per week. And that\u2019s just me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1635 size-full\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/technology-helps-jca-focus-on-clients-inline-2.jpg?_t=1533706349\" alt=\"Technology gives John Coward Architects directors more time to focus on clients.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totalsynergy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/technology-helps-jca-focus-on-clients-inline-2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/totalsynergy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/technology-helps-jca-focus-on-clients-inline-2-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/totalsynergy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/technology-helps-jca-focus-on-clients-inline-2-768x461.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>UNEXPECTED BENEFITS<\/h3>\n<p>Mike Darwell\u2019s primary goals for the practice in adopting a new system were to be more efficient with timesheets and email. What he also discovered were huge time savings with invoicing and the liberation of being mobile through the cloud.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;ve been working remotely from the office for the last two days, doing a big survey in a hotel,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI sat in the hotel bar yesterday with WiFi and I could quickly get to what I needed via Synergy. It\u2019s brilliant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do timesheets on my phone and iPad. I use the notes options, so I&#8217;ve got my notes tracking through Synergy. I&#8217;ve purposely done that so it forces me to go into Synergy and I just use Synergy now much more as that kind of overview rather than put notes in Exchange. I like the ability to assign tasks as well from Synergy to myself, so they appear on my\u00a0<a href=\"\/features\/dashboards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dashboard<\/a>\u00a0and then assign those tasks to other staff members as well. I can do all of this wherever I am.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mike wasn\u2019t expecting invoicing to be a part of Synergy the company would use. In fact, he thought it might be a drawback.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought invoicing in Synergy was actually going to be a drawback for us because of the way that the company secretary has our invoicing set up,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn actual fact, that&#8217;s been a huge benefit. We do an invoice run on a Friday, typically. That would have taken the company secretary the best part of the day to send, on average, 15 invoices. She sent 26 in three hours last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s more, if we had only a few hours on a project, we probably would have left it for another invoice run. Now it\u2019s so quick and easy to do, we can keep invoices flowing. Each director can create their draft invoices and all\u00a0 the company secretary has to do is run through all the drafts, check them, and send them out. It\u2019s simple.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1651 size-full\" style=\"font-size: 16px\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/technology-helps-JCA-focus-on-clients-inline-1.jpg?_t=1533710765\" alt=\"Technology gives John Coward Architects directors more time to focus on clients.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totalsynergy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/technology-helps-JCA-focus-on-clients-inline-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/totalsynergy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/technology-helps-JCA-focus-on-clients-inline-1-260x300.jpg 260w, https:\/\/totalsynergy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/technology-helps-JCA-focus-on-clients-inline-1-768x886.jpg 768w, https:\/\/totalsynergy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/technology-helps-JCA-focus-on-clients-inline-1-888x1024.jpg 888w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3>FUTURE BENEFITS OF SYNERGY<\/h3>\n<p>Darwell also sees the opportunity Synergy provides to improve project communication and project information management with its\u00a0<a href=\"\/features\/project-portal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">project portals<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like the sound of project portals,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can share a folder with a client, they get a notification when a document is changed. The principle sounds great, and I&#8217;ll use it because it&#8217;s what we&#8217;re doing with Dropbox. The trouble with Dropbox is that you never really know what it&#8217;s doing and when it&#8217;s doing it. And you never really know what the person on the other end is doing and when they&#8217;re doing it, either.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Synergy project portals provide an audit trail of who has viewed and downloaded shared documents, meaning you know that everyone is using the same information. It also provides threaded chat communications for projects, reducing the need for emails.<\/p>\n<h3>WHAT THE RIGHT TECHNOLOGY MEANS FOR JOHN COWARD ARCHITECTS<\/h3>\n<p>In our customer interviews, we always like to ask what Synergy means to them and their practice in a short statement \u2014 to sum it up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore time for clients,\u201d Mike said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe benefit has been the ability to quickly and efficiently record time in one centralised location, which helps us to improve efficiency, which is a benefit to our clients. So that&#8217;s it, we&#8217;re always looking to improve the service that we can offer. If we can be efficient in the way that we manage the practice, that is of benefit to the clients because we&#8217;ve got more time to dedicate to them, rather than to ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis last quarter has been our most efficient ever. I\u2019m sure it\u2019s not all down to Synergy, but our team is getting more actual work done. We\u2019re more profitable, the turnover is going up all the time, yet people say they are less busy than before.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s tangible efficiency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1653 size-full\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/technology-helps-jca-focus-on-clients-inline-3.jpg?_t=1533710824\" alt=\"Technology gives John Coward Architects directors more time to focus on clients.\" width=\"520\" height=\"773\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totalsynergy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/technology-helps-jca-focus-on-clients-inline-3.jpg 520w, https:\/\/totalsynergy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/technology-helps-jca-focus-on-clients-inline-3-202x300.jpg 202w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 520px) 85vw, 520px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1654 size-full\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/technology-helps-jca-focus-on-clients-social-share.jpg?_t=1533710835\" alt=\"Technology gives John Coward Architects directors more time to focus on clients.\" width=\"1600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totalsynergy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/technology-helps-jca-focus-on-clients-social-share.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/totalsynergy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/technology-helps-jca-focus-on-clients-social-share-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/totalsynergy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/technology-helps-jca-focus-on-clients-social-share-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/totalsynergy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/technology-helps-jca-focus-on-clients-social-share-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/totalsynergy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/technology-helps-jca-focus-on-clients-social-share-1200x600.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Coward Architects (JCA) director Mike Darwell knew there were ways to make the practice more efficient in project delivery. 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