31 Aug 2016
Anonymous employee
7Summits Response
9yThank you for posting your feedback here regarding concerns over project pressures and recent turn-over at 7Summits. And I appreciate the balanced feedback. Thank you.
Yes, 7Summits has predominantly been a fee-for-service company. That model means that our teams will be asked to work on multiple efforts concurrently depending on the size and nature of the work in front of us. Fortunately as we have pivoted our business toward larger growth channel partners like Salesforce, our clients, projects and work is getting larger (and more complex). That will, over time, provide opportunities for our team to be focused in a more dedicated fashion.
In terms of hyper-growth, that refers to the notion of extending our offering set with managed services and also productiz-ing what we do so that we can create some recurring revenue opportunities while better serving our client (proven solutions, etc). That means stronger growth without taxing our teams as much. I trust this makes sense. Hyper-growth in a pure project environment is just hyperbole – I don’t see that as a relevant model at all – so you’re right there.
In terms of turn-over, I have addressed that on some other posts here. We are molding our company to fit the market in front of us. It’s not a financial health question as much as supply and demand, getting our offering-set right, and communicating that more clearly – an area noted across the board that we could do a better job on. And so we will.