Case Study: Novo Group achieves 45% boost in gross margins with Kantata

The Novo Group Increases Margins by 45% with Mavenlink

Novo Group, a mid-sized consulting and recruiting firm that helps clients find and develop talent across industries, was hamstrung by homegrown spreadsheets and manual processes. With a large remote workforce, fragmented resource management, inconsistent time tracking and slow invoicing, project managers lacked real-time visibility and spent hours on administrative tasks instead of client work.

By adopting Mavenlink—complete with Salesforce integration, dashboards for utilization and forecasting, and streamlined time/invoice reporting—Novo Group automated resource allocation and reporting. The firm saw gross margins rise about 40–45%, a 90% cut in time-tracking administration, a 95% reduction in invoicing time, and a doubling of billable hours for client services leaders, while uncovering under-billing opportunities and improving staffing decisions.

Novo Group

Amanda Davenport

Operations Analyst