# So how do you manage an opening?

Source: https://openwithcompass.com/film

*A COMPASS film · 1:54*

Two minutes on hotel openings — before COMPASS, and six months after.

- Film: [So how do you manage an opening? A 1:54 COMPASS film](https://openwithcompass.com/media/compass-intro.mp4)
- Captions: [English](https://openwithcompass.com/media/compass-intro.en.vtt)

## Film chapters

- 0:00 — How do you manage an opening?
- 0:13 — Where is John?
- 0:22 — Who builds the budget?
- 0:34 — How many this quarter?
- 0:49 — Six months later
- 1:03 — One system
- 1:23 — Twice as many?
- 1:38 — Meanwhile, elsewhere

## Read the film as text

### 0:00 — How do you manage an opening?

So how do you manage an opening?  
Great question.  
16 departments, 16 spreadsheets, 35 alignment calls a week — and we do that 100 times a year.  
It’s fine.

### 0:13 — Where is John?

Who keeps the master task list?  
John does.  
And where is John?  
John left in March.

### 0:22 — Who builds the budget?

How do you build the opening budget?  
Michael builds the budgets.  
Michael is on holiday.  
Michael’s on holiday.  
Sorry, quick question.  
How much does a telephone cost?  
For a hotel in Dubai.

### 0:34 — How many this quarter?

How many hotels are you opening this quarter?  
We report those numbers to the market every quarter.  
They are accurate.  
How many openings do we have this quarter?  
Eleven.  
Fourteen?  
Depends how you count them.  
I’ll come back to you.  
It works, though.

### 0:49 — Six months later

It works.  
And how is it now?  
It doesn’t have to be like that.

### 1:03 — One system

We run the whole opening in COMPASS now.  
One system.  
From the day the deal lands to the day the doors open.  
The task list builds itself from the project.  
So does the budget.  
Call notes, procurement, travel, timesheets, quality checks.  
Reporting — every department, in one place.  
And nobody has to know where John is.

### 1:23 — Twice as many?

Can we do twice as many next year?  
Yeah.  
Do you need more people?  
No.

### 1:38 — Meanwhile, elsewhere

How on earth did you open 400 hotels last year?  
No idea.  
Have you tried spreadsheets?

## From spreadsheets to one system.

*What changes*

Four things every opening team chases — and where they live in COMPASS.

- **The task list** — Today: One person’s spreadsheet — and it leaves when they do. With COMPASS: The task list builds itself from the project. [Task Management](https://openwithcompass.com/platform/modules#task-management)
- **The budget** — Today: Weeks of spreadsheets that only one person understands. With COMPASS: CapEx, OpEx and pre-opening budgets — in days, not weeks. [Budget Estimator](https://openwithcompass.com/platform/modules#budget-estimator)
- **The overview** — Today: Every department counts the openings differently. With COMPASS: Every opening on one screen, by days to doors open. [The opening, end to end](https://openwithcompass.com/platform)
- **And everything else**: Call notes, procurement, travel, timesheets, quality checks. With COMPASS: Reporting — every department, in one place. [All 30 modules](https://openwithcompass.com/platform/modules)

## Your next opening, on COMPASS.

We show it live — on a hotel like yours.

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