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Knowledge and tools for IT services and consulting
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Knowledge & tools
Free resources for IT services and consulting
Guides, generators and templates, ready to use without an account.
AI tool
Competency model generator
Enter a URL and AI generates around 150 core skills, categories, role profiles and a skill matrix. In 5 minutes.
Generate model →Guide
Competency model guide
Why 150 core skills are better than a catalog with thousands of entries. Step by step to your own model.
Read guide →Guide
Resource management guide
From demand planning to utilization. How IT service providers manage resources efficiently.
Read guide →AI tool
Skill matrix template
Free Excel template or AI-generated skill matrix with role profiles. Ready to use immediately.
Get template →AI tool
Tender assistant
Create a tender assistant tailored to your company, with a step-by-step guide to getting started in Claude.
Explore the assistant →Blog
Articles and insights
News and practical knowledge on skill management, resource planning, consulting processes and AI agents.
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From RFP to Proposal in Hours, Not Weeks
A complex IT consulting tender arrives with a tight deadline. Discover how a structured approach helps turn requirements into a proposal in hours rather than weeks.
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The Skills crisis that’s quietly hollowing out IT Consulting firms
We work with IT consultancies across the world, from growing boutiques to global players. We see their successes and their struggles up close.
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AI can do everything – except save your skills management. Why IT service providers should still rely on a SaaS platform.
AI doesn’t replace skills management - it depends on it. Why IT service providers should build on a SaaS platform as their foundation before leveraging AI.
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Bench Management in IT Consulting: From Cost Center to Strategic Asset
In IT consulting, “the bench” describes consultants between assignments. Effective bench management is not just about filling gaps; it’s a strategic discipline.
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Are AI Agents Replacing IT Consultants?
Hybrid teams are changing the consulting industry. Explore which tasks AI agents can take on, where human expertise remains essential and what this means for IT consultants.
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The future of resource management – AI agents and hybrid teams?
Resource management is entering a new era: AI agents will support or replace back-office tasks, hybrid human-AI teams will become reality, and companies must integrate skills & processes to stay ahead.
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No more resume stress: The new Quality Indicator in decídalo
With the decídalo Quality Indicator, resume quality becomes transparent and stress-free. Save time, ensure complete profiles, and boost consistency.
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Skill-Based Resource Management for Consulting Firms: Staff Projects Efficiently with decídalo
Discover how consulting firms can staff projects with skill-based resource management. decídalo brings competencies and availability together to support better assignment decisions.
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What Happens to My Data?
How does decídalo handle your data? Learn how AI, data protection and human oversight work together, and why transparency matters when automating business processes.
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Make Your Data Work for You: Data-Driven Consulting
You generate data every minute of your day. Every email you write, resume you upload, and timesheet you check leaves a digital trail. This is true for everyone else in your business, too.
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What Makes a World-Class Consultant Resume?
What makes a consultant’s resume win a contract? Discover how to present experience and competencies so customers can recognize the right expert for their project.
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How to Tariff-Proof Your IT Consulting Business
What are tariffs going to do to your IT consulting business? Manufacturers are bracing for impact, but most IT managers didn’t see this coming. After all, you sell expertise, not goods.
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AI-Powered Resource Matching: How Consulting Firms Cut Response Time from Days to Minutes
Finding the right person for a project is tricky. If you support an IT consulting firm, your resource matching process probably looks something like this: You get a resource request or even just an email asking for available consultants.
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Who Knows What? Preventing Knowledge Loss in the IT Consulting Industry
Think about all the consultants you have worked with in the last three years. How many are still at your firm? When teammates left, how much time did you lose scrambling to pick up where they left off?
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Thriving Despite Federal Cutbacks: IT Consulting Strategies for 2025
Federal spending cuts create uncertainty for IT consulting firms in 2025. Explore what changing public-sector demand means for consultancies and how they can respond.
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Lessons learned from migrating to AI skill management
With version 3 of our skill and resource management solution decídalo, we made a radical change. We replaced the skills catalog with a Large Language Model (LLM).
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Top 5 Pitfalls When Responding to RFPs
Responding to Requests for Proposals (RFPs) is a critical task for IT consulting firms. However, many firms fall into common traps that can jeopardize their chances of winning lucrative contracts.
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Why HR Skill Management does not work for IT Services and Consulting
Skill management is traditionally an HR topic. It’s about developing employee skills, gaining transparency on qualifications, and filling open positions. HR processes follow strategic, long-term goals.
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The Strategic Imperative of the decídalo PSA Solution for RfP Management
In today’s highly competitive market, IT consulting firms and professional services organizations face increasingly complex challenges when responding to Request for Proposals (RfPs).
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Transforming RfP Management in IT Consulting
Responding to RFPs takes time and requires detailed technical profiles. Explore why IT services and consulting firms need tools that address their specific proposal requirements.
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Skills Management in the Age of GenAI
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is increasingly changing the world of work. The right use of GenAI in digital processes can lead to a significant increase in efficiency and a more productive way of working.
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decídalo Free: An Interview with a User
Max wins new projects for a consulting company. In this interview, he explains how he uses decídalo Free to find suitable consultants and send their CVs to prospective customers.
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decídalo Insights: About LLMs and chatbots
Due to recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, it has become much easier today to develop intelligent chatbots that can access external data sources.
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The decídalo Chatbot
Who has the right expertise for a project, and which skills are most common? Discover how the decídalo chatbot helps users explore the information in their skills and CV data.
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Top Features in the January Release
The January release brings new features to decídalo. Explore the latest improvements and discover how they can support your daily work with skills and resource management.
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APIs: How we integrate decídalo into existing systems
APIs connect decídalo with existing systems and enable ongoing data exchange. Learn how we use integrations to keep information consistent and support connected business processes.
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New in the November release
The November release adds new features to decídalo. Discover the latest improvements, including a French interface, and see how the platform continues to evolve.
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Facts and numbers about CVs
Consultant profiles – known as CVs – have become an indispensable part of the consulting business. In sales, they are an essential part of the entire process.
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Now even more efficient: Our assignment planning
The assignment planning page is an important part of the resource management. It contains an overview of all the consultants’ scheduled times, which can be worked with as flexibly as on a spreadsheet.
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Features in the new reference management
Our reference management has been updated! Besides the new user interface, some helpful features have been added. With the connection to DeepL.com, for example, you can now translate project descriptions and contributions into any language.
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Resource management begins with a quotation calculation
From quotation to resource planning – without process breaks For many companies, the resource management process starts with a resource requirement. But how do you know how many person-days with which skill set are needed?
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Simplified frontend for resource management
As simple as Excel – but without the drawbacks Many team leaders have an Excel spreadsheet with their employees’ schedules and absences. Excel is simple, anyone can do Excel, Excel is flexible.
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Project references 2.0
decídalo’s reference management has a new design and additional features. Discover how to create project references and success stories and turn them into compelling presentations.
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The right profile picture for every offer
Several profile pictures can now be saved and selected in decídalo. Life is gradually moving back into the offices. And despite 1 ½ years of home office, hoodies have not become accepted as the dress code in all industries.
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Project plans in PowerPoint – simply at the push of a button
We regularly receive project plans with Gantt charts in PowerPoint from our customers and partners. And we are not alone in this. PowerPoint is the standard tool for all kinds of project presentations, from proposals to status reports.
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Review 2020 and Preview 2021
In 2020, Data Assessment Solutions GmbH (DAS) was able to increase its revenue by 50% compared to the previous year. In the first half of the year, the increase was even 75%, relative to the first half of 2019.
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75% growth in the first half of 2020
In the first two quarters of this year, Data Assessment Solutions GmbH (DAS) achieved a revenue growth of 75% compared to the same period last year. New and existing customer business both increased significantly.
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Effective bench management with decídalo
On the bench – this is the common term in the consulting industry for consultants without a project. This bench reduces not only profitability but also the motivation of the affected consultants.
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Review 2019 and Preview 2020
Data Assessment Solutions recorded strong revenue growth in 2019 and welcomed customers including Software AG and BTC. We look back at the year and share our plans for the next steps.
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Text-to-Skill – better data with less effort
Structured data is much easier to analyze and process than unstructured data. This also applies to skills. The classic approach in skills management is therefore to assess employee skills in a skills matrix.
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All Inclusive Set-Up Service
Getting started with decídalo is easier than ever! By the very nature of their revenue model, consulting agencies are always hard-pressed for time. If they aren’t, they’re missing out on client projects!
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Smart Time Tracking Prefills Your Timesheets
The old way In the consulting business, time recording is mostly a necessary but unpleasant task. Data Assessment Solutions has over ten years of experience in replacing legacy time recording systems in the consulting industry.
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The perfect consultant CV
Our clients frequently rely on decídalo to perform a complete reworking of their consultant CV templates. Over the last ten years we have remade countless templates.
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Review 2018 and Preview 2019
In December 2018, Data Assessment Solutions GmbH turned 10 years old. Since our foundation we have grown continuously and so our tenth business year was again the most successful in our company history.
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New features at a glance
In the fourth quarter of 2018, we rolled out a number of new features and enhancements for decídalo. This article provides an overview of the main new features – without claiming to be exhaustive.
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Turning away from in-house developments
For nearly all our clients we replaced tools they had developed in-house. In all cases, we found the same history and pain points connected with those tools.
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The project Marketplace – transparent resource management
decídalo now offers you the opportunity to publicize projects within your company. With the Project Marketplace you give your consultants the ability to control their own workload and skills development.
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Into our tenth year with record results
Since our company was founded on 18 December 2008 we have exceeded our growth targets every single year. Last year, too, closed with record results.
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Successful decídalo launch at Computacenter
After a successful pilot, Computacenter launched decídalo for 2,500 users in Germany. The platform replaces its in-house solution for skills and CV management.
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Say goodbye to copy and paste – The simple way of managing CV templates
It’s something that must be familiar to all IT consultants: having to integrate your consultant profile into another template. And, of course, it’s always urgent. Time to get down to copying and pasting!