The Challenge

Like many manufacturers, Alcon has relied on tools like Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint to manage its projects. Unfortunately, this created some challenges because these tools simply weren’t built for the high-velocity, dynamic demands of modern project management. Project managers were struggling to keep pace and manage risk across hundreds of individual projects, thousands of tasks and hundreds of resources with large, complex spreadsheets. Keeping executives informed with realistic and real-time data about the status of mission-critical initiatives was extremely difficult and time-consuming.

Yet, despite a massive effort, project managers were still missing a clear picture of resource allocation and projects still fell behind. Changes in strategy, the market or resource availability often demanded a fast pivot, but existing tools prevented them from adapting as quickly as leadership wanted.

The Solution

With Proggio, Alcon found the future-ready solution it needed to gain clarity, make smarter and faster decisions and achieve its bottom-line goals. Because Proggio supports multiple methods and is scalable to any size project or number of users, it offered the flexibility and elasticity Alcon needed, and its intuitive, user-friendly dashboards provided a quick time to value for the organization.

• A clear view of proposed projects across departments, aligning them with enterprise goals
• Better resource allocation and reduced conflicts among cross-departmental leaders and executives
• Visual workstreams replaced unnavigable Gantt charts, enabling stakeholders and project managers to easily comprehend project status at various levels
• Real-time data display eliminated the need for extensive data gathering
• Project Managers can offer live, instant updates at any level, saving time previously spent on compiling reports