Reliable Management Information

In the Increasing Employee Productivity series I write about methods for increasing employee productivity by the usage of Integrated Workplace Management Systems. This week I will address reliability issues.

Decision Making

Reliability of information is one of the key principles for a succesful enterprise solution. If the information in a solution doesn’t correctly represent the actual situation boardroom members can’t make correct decisions. Providing managers with decision making data is the main reason to buy a Integrated Workplace Management System in the first place! A IWMS is primarily used to increase managerial (cost) control over an organizations’ portfolio, assets, contracts, personnel, suppliers etc. that directly influence the profitability of organizations.

Data Migration

One of the causes which negatively contributes to the reliability of the information is the quality of data migration during implementation. Although it sounds very logical quite some organizations find themselves with a lot of redundant data which is maintained in different systems such as ERP, Purchase and Supplier Systems. Whenever a new software solution such as an IWMS is implemented the bulk of consultancy effort will be done within the solutions functional domain whilst limited time will be available for data migration.

IWMS Selection Procedure

Whenever your organization plans to buy an Integrated Workplace Management System I therefore strongly suggest you address data migration in the selection procedure as one of the highest priorities. Otherwise you might end up with a functional solution which surpasses its original goal to increase managerial control on a wide variety of organizational processes based on reliable information.

Next week: Scalability