A forecast a consulting firm can act on
A pipeline forecast that only produces a euro figure for the quarter is not actionable, because a firm cannot deliver euros: it delivers people. The same revenue can be comfortable or impossible depending on which roles it needs and when it starts.
The version that changes decisions expresses the pipeline in the same units as the capacity plan — senior weeks, junior weeks, specialist weeks, by month. Read that way, the forecast stops being a number to defend in a meeting and becomes an input to hiring, subcontracting and start-date negotiation.
- Pipeline expressed in weeks by role and month
- Weighted and unweighted views side by side
- Deals split by whether the start date is negotiable
- Gap between probable demand and available capacity