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Manufacturing: managing orders, production and jobs beyond the spreadsheet
In manufacturing the production spreadsheet holds up until it breaks: one person on holiday, one urgent order, and planning grinds to a halt. What to add to coordinate orders, departments and jobs without losing control.
4 min readClickUp for SMEs: the complete guide to getting started the right way
ClickUp can do almost everything, and that is exactly the problem when you start. A step-by-step guide to setting it up in an SME without turning it into yet another tool abandoned after two weeks.
5 min readJoint interprofessional funds: how Italian SMEs can finance training and digital consulting
Every month your company pays INPS 0.30% of its payroll. Part of it can come back as funded training, consulting and skills development. Here's how it works.
5 min readHow we train teams on Wrike: the method for real, widespread adoption
The classic model (two hours of training and off you go) produces enthusiasm that lasts a week. Here's the three-phase method we use for adoption that lasts.
4 min readThe ROI of digitalisation: the formula we use
The question we get most often is also the hardest to answer honestly. The three-step framework we use to calculate a defensible ROI.
3 min readDashboard or report? How to work out what management actually needs
"We want a dashboard" often hides a different need. The difference between monitoring and analysis, and three questions to understand what management really needs.
3 min readThe data you already have in your company and aren't using
Most SMEs already have all the data they need to make better decisions: it's just scattered and inaccessible. Where to start to make it usable.
3 min readWrike news, 23 March 2026: Templates Center for everyone and AI Agents with new precision controls
The Templates & Solutions Center opens to all account users and Wrike's AI Agents get new precision controls, plus two new preconfigured agents.
2 min readHow an engineering firm runs 12 projects in parallel without missing a deadline
Before Wrike, the owner spent 2 hours a week on the phone just to find out where each project stood. Here's how we structured the system and what changed in 4 months.
3 min readDoes your team spend more time looking for information than working? Here's why
According to McKinsey, knowledge workers spend 20–30% of their day looking for information. The problem isn't your team's discipline: it's how the information is organised.
3 min readThe marketing team running 40 campaigns a year: how we structured Wrike
Email, a shared Drive and an abandoned Trello board: that's how a B2B marketing team coordinated 40 campaigns a year. Here's the Wrike structure that cut the review cycle from 5 to under 3 days.
3 min readWrike news, 3 March 2026: more powerful AI Agents, a new Gantt chart and Klaxoon Lifecycle
Expanded context for AI Agents, a Gantt chart with public snapshots and the new Activity Lifecycle feature in Klaxoon Whiteboard: the weekly roundup of Wrike updates.
3 min readAutoCAD, email and an Excel sheet: the hidden cost of coordination in Italian technical firms
The problem with Italian technical firms isn't skill: it's that AutoCAD, email and Excel get used together for things they were never designed for. What to add, without replacing anything.
3 min readWrike for people who've never used a PM tool: where to start
Many Italian SMEs come to Wrike from email, Excel and WhatsApp, not from Asana or Trello. The most common mistake is trying to move everything at once. The method we use: one pilot process at a time.
3 min readWhen standard software isn't enough: the 3 signs it's time to consider custom software
An Excel file holding five different systems together, too many SaaS subscriptions that don't talk to each other, processes that bend to the tool's limits instead of the reverse: three signs to recognise.
3 min readWrike vs Excel for project management: we ran the comparison for 12 Italian SMEs
In a 35-person services company, each project manager spent 4.5 hours a week just updating Excel files. What happens when you switch to Wrike, measured at 30, 60 and 90 days.
3 min readHow we cut client onboarding time by 40% with a CRM-PM integration
Manually transferring information from the CRM to project management cost 4.5 days before an onboarding could start. With an automatic trigger from CRM to Wrike, we got it down to under 4 hours.
3 min readTrello, Asana, ClickUp or Wrike? What changes when your marketing team grows past 5 people
Trello is perfect to start, Asana has a scalability ceiling, ClickUp risks configuration paralysis, Wrike has a steeper learning curve. The guide to which to choose and when.
4 min readWrike news, 24 March 2026: AI Elite Mastery certification and the March digest
Pre-registration is open for the new Wrike AI Elite Mastery Certification, and the March digest is available with the general availability of AI Agents.
1 min readWhy 70% of digitalisation projects fail (and how to avoid it)
The figure has been cited by McKinsey and Gartner for years, yet companies keep making the same three mistakes. The difference between projects that work and those that stall is never the technology.
3 min read5 KPIs every operations manager should see every morning
"I have tons of data, but I never know where to look": the problem isn't a lack of information, it's a lack of clear signals at the right time. The 5 indicators we recommend monitoring every day.
5 min readWrike news, 16 March 2026: AI Agents with task moving, checkboxes and per-action filters
AI Agents learn to move tasks between folders, read checkbox fields, filter items per action and give each action a name in the logs.
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