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"It’s not just your technology, multiple resource factors must be interwoven to create IS / KM value. The resources are: your people, the practices your people employ, the technology tools themselves, and the training that is provided."



Why are virtual workspaces useful?

– Single location for all information.

– Background information helps get others up to speed

– Able to acquire docs without having to have them emailed

– Configuration control on key documents

– Keep up to date and in touch with all areas of the project



What Returns are you realizing?

• Cost savings thru Increased productivity

• Increased operational flexibility thru more mobile workforce

• Capturing knowledge, adding to corporate Intellectual Capital

• Improvements in end product due to more eyes, more time, more efficiant



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Fundamentals - what we check in our audit - Process

Processes have GPS sub-factors

Practices

What practices are in place for:

- adding users?

- gathering files associated with meetings?

- gathering files associated with deliverables, milestones,

- publishing & notifying updates to reference data ...

Standards

What standards have group-wide adoption for:

- user ID names?

- using calendars?

- file naming?

- navigation and usage guides?

 

GPS - Fundamentals – that we check in our audit

Develop a governance structure

How determine who gets access to the system?

How are users’ permissions/roles determined?

How are standards set?

 

GPS Known Best Practices - that we check in our audit

Facilitator Collaboration group

Data modeling, architecting the products that each group needs, and capturing the processes that are used to create those products over and over.

Diagnostic indicators – things to look at to see the state, what condition.

Identify the key nodes, their owners, objectives and metrics

Navigational consistency

Combination of organization chart, work processes and products

Metrics: is a node being used?  Is it conforming to standards

Set standards that optimize the success of all destinations

How important documents / materials are presented

How files are named and versioned

How your products are configuration controlled

 

GPS related aspects of DP Audit of your target group/activity

Grade existing fundamentals and practices within that group

gap analysis between existing and ‘must have’ fundamentals and practices

 

Identifies missing fundamentals and practices

Custom Report – alternatives for your target group/activity

Identifies alternatives for filling the gaps between existing and must have fundamentals.
Recommended prioritization for providing missing fundamentals and practices.


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