Case study – ADRA Group
Case study – ADRA Group
The challenge
Adra wanted to grow and diversify their business and needed a more sophisticated way to plan than using Excel spreadsheets.
The Workfacta solution
Using the full Workfacta package, Adra’s management team can track and meet goals with ease.
Features used
Features usedQuarterly Goals
Annual Planning
The outcome
Adra’s quarterly plans went from being 20% executed to 85% executed within the first financial year of using Workfacta and they exceeded their growth target with a 406% increase in net profit.
65% increase
in quarterly plan execution
406% increase in net profit
Within one financial year of using Workfacta
Greater participation
in achieving growth and goals
Robert Osborn
CEO, ADRA Group
Customer since:
2020
Industry:
Engineering services
Location:
Victoria
Australia
Website:
ADRAgroup.com.au
The details
Adra chose to use Workfacta because it’s built for their needs as a small-to-medium enterprise with ambitions to grow and developed by business people who’ve been there and done it.
Robert Osborn, CEO of Adra Group, says:
What impressed me about Workfacta was that it was built based on the needs of small to medium enterprises on a growth path by people with experience doing just that.
Workfacta means instead of one-way communication from myself to the management team, we can all proactively participate in achieving our growth and diversification goals.
It has streamlined our business planning process and I’m able to communicate with staff globally. From business planning memos to quarterly executive reports, everyone knows what each other is accomplishing.
Especially during COVID when I can’t visit a lot of our managers in person because they’re spread across Australia and internationally, Workfacta gives me insight into a lot of different groups and goings on. It allows me to stay on top of things.
Greater Alignment
I can see how we’re tracking against our annual business plan and ensure our resources align with what’s needed. I can put resources in the right spot and restructure as required if things aren’t on track.
Achieving Goals
I can solve problems before they become a problem!
Workfacta has helped us achieve some major goals, including:
- 406% growth in net profit on the previous financial year
- 85% of tasks completed, including purchasing another company and opening a new office in Melbourne.
These were big successes for our business. The ease of completion was due to working with the management team to track and meet our goals using Workfacta.
Workfacta allows you to get your team on board and to work with you to achieve goals and plans! It’s very collaborative.
Unexpected Benefits
These were big successes for our business. The ease of completion was due to working with the management team to track and meet our goals using Workfacta.
An unexpected benefit is that we can also use Workfacta for important transparency and accountability activities such as audits for our Health, Safety, Environment and Quality System ISO. Running our reportables through Workfacta weekly has made audit time much easier. We no-longer need multiple tracking systems, we can bring them all together in Workfacta.
As CEO, my favourite Workfacta feature is the business planning and the ability to run the quarterly business reports to see how we’re tracking against the annual business plan.
Robert Osborn is the Chief Executive Officer for Adra Group and drives the Vision of the Shareholders which includes responsibility for overall Profit and Loss, Operations, Expanding Internationally, Client Relations and People Development.
