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FTE Meaning: What Full-Time Equivalent Is, and the Two Ways to Calculate It

FTE stands for full-time equivalent. It is a unit of work capacity: 1.0 FTE is one person working a full-time schedule, and everything else is expressed as a fraction of that. Two people at 20 hours a week each come to 1.0 FTE in a company where full-time means 40. The formula is one line.

Identity and Access Management for Secure Collaboration

Most security teams have invested heavily in identity. Single sign-on, multifactor authentication and conditional access now guard the front door of almost every enterprise application. Access decisions keep living after that door closes, in shared folders, partner chats and guest links that nobody remembers to revoke. In our State of Secure Collaboration 2026 survey of 208 CISOs across Germany, France and the UK, 61% said access to shared files stays active longer than intended after a project ends.

Product Portfolio Management: A Practical Guide for Heads of Product

Managing one product is hard. Managing a portfolio of products across multiple teams, market segments, or business units is a different problem entirely. Individual product managers focus on what to build next and why. As a VP of Product or CPO, your job is to make sure the right products get investment, that teams are not duplicating work or blocking each other, and that the entire portfolio is pulling toward the same business objectives.

How to choose a billing model that protects your margin (not just your comfort zone)

Most guides treat picking a way to charge clients like picking a paint colour: here's the swatch card, choose what you like. That advice is now wrong, and it's costing firms margin every month. Before I joined Teamwork.com, I spent nine years in agencies watching the same thing happen, and it always started with a model nobody had really chosen on purpose. This guide reframes the decision around one idea, then hands you a test to make it.

Cost to serve: the hidden price of client delivery (and how to total it)

Ask ten agency leaders what a client costs to deliver and it's likely some will quote you the delivery estimate. That number is almost always too low, because it counts the work that gets invoiced while ignoring the work that doesn't. This guide takes an idea borrowed from supply chains and rebuilds it for client delivery. It's a simple ledger that totals the true cost of serving a client, so you can see which accounts earn their keep.

Top 10 AI Knowledge Bases for Customer Support Teams

Not every AI knowledge base does the same job. Some are designed to deflect tickets before they reach your team. Others sit behind the scenes, feeding agents the right answer at the right moment. A few try to handle both roles, though the depth of each varies considerably. The decision usually comes down to three questions: Does the tool need to live inside a platform you already use, or can it operate independently? How much AI actually ships with the base plan versus what requires an upgrade?

10 Smartsheet alternatives that connect delivery to margin

Most searches for Smartsheet alternatives begin with a question I could never answer fast at an agency: are we actually making money on this account? I'd have four browser tabs open and still be stuck. One tab held the project plan, one the timesheets, one a finance export, and one a sheet nobody trusted. By the time I stitched them together, the month had closed and we'd already spent the margin. That's the trap with spreadsheet sprawl: the work is visible, but the money isn't.

How to bill a client without leaving money on the table

Most guides on how to bill a client stop at the invoice: pick Net 30, send a tidy PDF, chase the late payers. That is the paperwork, not the billing. Billing a client profitably is a commercial decision you make long before the invoice goes out, and getting it wrong drains margin every single month. This guide reframes billing as a four-rung climb from work done to margin banked. Expect real numbers and the moves that actually shift the outcome.