The document discusses strategies for reducing real estate and facilities costs through workplace changes. It identifies three main cost drivers: employee churn which leads to moving costs; lack of flexibility in physical space layouts; and inefficient space utilization. The document recommends reducing employee moves, increasing space densification to use less square footage per person, and implementing alternative workplace strategies like telework and hot desking to improve flexibility. Case studies show these strategies helped companies significantly reduce real estate costs.
Developing The Future of Driving: Smart Systems to Keep Connected Drivers Safe. Presentation given at May 6 Conference: The New American Dream: Smart Grid, Smart Home, Smart Car
Evidence for my ePortfolio - I designed this 8-hour training to prepare employees for the installation of a new, more automated telephone system.
http://eportfolio4mwalkerwade.wordpress.com
CHANGES IN LABOR MARKETS AND EMPLOYEE CHARACTERISTICSDimitrios Kordas
This document summarizes a group assignment on changes in labor markets, company strategies, and employee characteristics and preferences. It provides an introduction on the importance of employee development for competitive advantage. It then presents a model showing how companies acquire critical assets that become valuable resources to sustain competitive advantages. Finally, it analyzes several case studies on changes in different industries and markets, how companies adapted their employment strategies, and evolving employee needs and preferences.
Star Collaborative Presentation For Hu Gmn Techday 2010ChangeGuild
The document discusses 12 change management tools that can be used to improve implementation performance. It summarizes each tool, including the learning cycle, engagement agreements, change magnitude assessments, change curves, stakeholder assessments, key role maps, defining current and future states, behavioral anchors, culture assessments, base deck communications, communication plans, and sponsor contracting. The overall purpose is to provide organizations with strategies and frameworks to better manage change initiatives.
NEW SolidWorks® Plastics
Injection molding simulation for designers of plastic parts and injection molds. Evaluate the manufacturability of parts and molds while designing for form, fit, and function.
For Plastic Part Designers
Part designers get rapid feedback on how modifications to wall thickness, gate locations, materials, or geometry can affect the manufacturing of their part
For Mold Designers
Quickly create and analyze single, multi-cavity, and family mold layouts, including sprues, runners, and gates.
Getting the Right Results
The Results Adviser provides practical design advice and troubleshooting tips to help diagnose and solve potential problems.
The 7-point business continuity guide from the Chartered Management Institute provides steps to develop an effective continuity plan for any business. The steps include: 1) Communicating the need for a plan to all staff, 2) Creating a complete picture of business operations, 3) Evaluating risks and prioritizing failures, 4) Evaluating current planning and costs to address gaps, 5) Developing a risk strategy and action plan, 6) Establishing procedures and rehearsing the plan, 7) Regularly reviewing and testing the plan with different scenarios. Following these steps can help businesses reduce disruption impacts and "shock-proof" operations.
1. This document provides examples of how to complete a risk assessment check sheet. It includes information on identifying hazards, those at risk, current control measures, the likelihood of risks occurring, and reviewing risk assessments.
2. The document lists the key elements to include in a risk assessment such as the location, activity, task, hazards, persons at risk, current controls, likelihood of risks, and review date. It also indicates when a corrective action report may be required.
3. Information is provided on where to find control measures and guidance on legal requirements for risk assessments according to various UK regulations and standards. Completing risk assessments helps gather facts to make reliable decisions about risks to health and safety controls.
Developing The Future of Driving: Smart Systems to Keep Connected Drivers Safe. Presentation given at May 6 Conference: The New American Dream: Smart Grid, Smart Home, Smart Car
Evidence for my ePortfolio - I designed this 8-hour training to prepare employees for the installation of a new, more automated telephone system.
http://eportfolio4mwalkerwade.wordpress.com
CHANGES IN LABOR MARKETS AND EMPLOYEE CHARACTERISTICSDimitrios Kordas
This document summarizes a group assignment on changes in labor markets, company strategies, and employee characteristics and preferences. It provides an introduction on the importance of employee development for competitive advantage. It then presents a model showing how companies acquire critical assets that become valuable resources to sustain competitive advantages. Finally, it analyzes several case studies on changes in different industries and markets, how companies adapted their employment strategies, and evolving employee needs and preferences.
Star Collaborative Presentation For Hu Gmn Techday 2010ChangeGuild
The document discusses 12 change management tools that can be used to improve implementation performance. It summarizes each tool, including the learning cycle, engagement agreements, change magnitude assessments, change curves, stakeholder assessments, key role maps, defining current and future states, behavioral anchors, culture assessments, base deck communications, communication plans, and sponsor contracting. The overall purpose is to provide organizations with strategies and frameworks to better manage change initiatives.
NEW SolidWorks® Plastics
Injection molding simulation for designers of plastic parts and injection molds. Evaluate the manufacturability of parts and molds while designing for form, fit, and function.
For Plastic Part Designers
Part designers get rapid feedback on how modifications to wall thickness, gate locations, materials, or geometry can affect the manufacturing of their part
For Mold Designers
Quickly create and analyze single, multi-cavity, and family mold layouts, including sprues, runners, and gates.
Getting the Right Results
The Results Adviser provides practical design advice and troubleshooting tips to help diagnose and solve potential problems.
The 7-point business continuity guide from the Chartered Management Institute provides steps to develop an effective continuity plan for any business. The steps include: 1) Communicating the need for a plan to all staff, 2) Creating a complete picture of business operations, 3) Evaluating risks and prioritizing failures, 4) Evaluating current planning and costs to address gaps, 5) Developing a risk strategy and action plan, 6) Establishing procedures and rehearsing the plan, 7) Regularly reviewing and testing the plan with different scenarios. Following these steps can help businesses reduce disruption impacts and "shock-proof" operations.
1. This document provides examples of how to complete a risk assessment check sheet. It includes information on identifying hazards, those at risk, current control measures, the likelihood of risks occurring, and reviewing risk assessments.
2. The document lists the key elements to include in a risk assessment such as the location, activity, task, hazards, persons at risk, current controls, likelihood of risks, and review date. It also indicates when a corrective action report may be required.
3. Information is provided on where to find control measures and guidance on legal requirements for risk assessments according to various UK regulations and standards. Completing risk assessments helps gather facts to make reliable decisions about risks to health and safety controls.
This article discusses four main issues that human resources practitioners must consider when implementing a telework program: (1) what costs the employer is responsible for paying; (2) steps to ensure compliance with wage and hour laws; (3) whether an employer can require employees to telework; and (4) which states employment taxes must be paid in. The article provides guidance on each of these issues and emphasizes that properly implementing a telework program requires thoughtful analysis of the legal constraints to realize the benefits while avoiding costly legal claims.
"How to solve unsolvable problems in projects" (33rd Degree, Kraków)Marcin Kokott
This document appears to be a listing of sponsors and topics for an event or publication. It includes the following:
- A "Main sponsor" section
- Several topic titles in various languages including "Effective Java", "CDI extensions", and "Hadoop: Divide and Conquer Gigantic Datasets"
- Names of speakers or authors associated with some of the topics
The document provides a high-level overview of sponsors and a variety of technical topics without going into detail about any single topic. It references topics in both English and other languages.
The document discusses the process for evolving solutions and the roles of coaches in that process. It describes the different solution statuses including framed, draft, reviewed, rework, internal, published, suspect, and obsolete. It outlines expectations for coaches such as reviewing solutions, providing feedback, and participating in meetings. Coaches are also advised to utilize queries and filters to review solutions by status, owner, and product. The document provides guidance on what coaches should look for when reviewing solutions and tips for ensuring solutions are properly formatted, technically valid, and findable/usable.
Transformational leadership inspires organizations to adapt to accelerating change. It motivates followers by closing the gap between leaders' professed values and actual values in use. Transformational leaders act as role models, motivate followers with a vision of the future, stimulate innovation, and support individual growth. They are needed to help organizations and employees cope with disruption and maintain productivity.
Business Process Reengineering meets Socio Technical Systems. An insight in the backgrounds of BPR and providing STS as an alternative. Or a best of both worlds perspective?
This document discusses the managerial decision-making process. It describes the process as having six main functions: setting objectives, searching for alternatives, comparing and evaluating alternatives, making the choice, implementing decisions, and follow-up/control. These functions are interrelated and dynamic. The process aims to identify the best alternative to attain the objectives by systematically evaluating options and their ability to meet criteria derived from the objectives.
This document discusses designing user interfaces for knowledge workers using screens. It proposes spending more time envisioning high-level concepts and strategies for applications before focusing on details. The goal is to create extraordinary tools that meaningfully fit how people work, rather than forcing changes. Teams should explore a breadth of concepts and directions through questioning, and stay true to the vision while allowing it to evolve into a reality.
This document summarizes theories and applications of motivation. It discusses early motivation theories like Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory and Herzberg's two-factor theory. Contemporary theories covered include goal setting theory, reinforcement theory, and equity theory. The document also examines applying motivation through job design, employee involvement programs, and rewarding employees with variable pay programs and flexible benefits.
Andrew Brennan and Ruth Banner - DVD training packageCOT SSNP
This document introduces a training DVD that teaches a low-arousal approach for de-escalating challenging behavior in patients with acquired brain injuries. It aims to address high staff turnover, which disrupts continuity of care. Currently, minimal staff training exists for managing challenging behavior. The DVD aims to effectively train large numbers of staff and improve risk management. It evaluates the unit's incident reports over the past year to understand the types of challenging behaviors occurring and justify the need for alternative training approaches that focus on positive relationships rather than power struggles. The DVD's goals are to provide a stand-alone training package for new and current staff on an interdisciplinary approach to working with patients who exhibit challenging behaviors following brain injuries.
The document discusses approaches to improving knowledge worker productivity. It argues that the dominant approach of designing organizational structures and then fitting roles and people into them may not be effective for knowledge workers. An alternative approach is proposed that focuses first on the person, their passions and skills, and then tailors roles and organizational structures to better fit individuals. This person-centered approach includes using passion inventories, flexible job descriptions, and lateral career moves to better align people with work they find meaningful. The goal is to recruit the right people and place them in positions and an organization structured in a way that allows them to perform at their best.
The BPM Benefits Realisation Framework explores the BPM journey most organisations embark upon. It stresses on the specific benefits each initiative results in. If your organisation is looking to formulate a roadmap, this framework will help. If you in the \'middle\' of your BPM quest, use this framework to put your benefits into perspective.
1) The term "Lean" is an unfortunate phrase that does not fully capture the philosophy of the Toyota Production System, which focuses on effectiveness and doing the right things, rather than just efficiency.
2) In other languages, Lean is translated differently, focusing more on concepts like essentials, benefits to people, or appropriate management.
3) In the UK, quality frameworks for general practitioners incentivize activities like quick appointments that can encourage doing the wrong things righter, rather than improving actual patient outcomes.
1. Information architecture is becoming increasingly important as businesses transition fully to the digital space.
2. User-centered design principles should be at the core of how information architecture and interaction design are approached to ensure solutions meet user needs.
3. The motivations, needs, and experiences of users must be understood through techniques like cognitive empathy in order to create compassionate and effective digital solutions.
SAMPLE PORTFOLIO. Designer owned and operated custom millinery business. As owner and designer, responsibilities include all facets of business operations, including creative and artistic direction, materials purchasing, product design and development, quality control, package design, marketing, web design, social media, and contracting of vendor services (photography, models, hair/makeup, and wardrobe).
Este documento proporciona una lista de 105 estudiantes de la jornada nocturna que realizaron las pruebas SABER del 2015, incluyendo su número de registro, nombre y número de documento de identidad. Además, indica que con esta información los estudiantes pueden acceder a sus resultados en la página web del ICFES.
La tarjeta madre es la pieza central de una computadora, ya que conecta y controla todos los componentes principales como la CPU, la memoria RAM y las tarjetas de expansión. Proporciona puertos para conectar periféricos externos como teclados, monitores y discos duros, y contiene chips que controlan funciones como la entrada y salida de datos y la comunicación entre componentes.
The document discusses the UK government's reforms to the welfare benefits system beginning in 2010. The key goals of the reforms were to simplify the social security system, improve incentives to work, and promote fairness. Major changes included the introduction of Universal Credit to replace existing working-age benefits, changes to indexation of benefits, housing benefit reform, and the planned replacement of Disability Living Allowance with a new Personal Independence Payment.
The San Diego Workforce Partnership held its annual Recognition Breakfast in 2011. Various workforce development organizations, educators, and partners were awarded for their service and contributions. Keynote speaker Julie Meier Wright received a legacy award for her leadership as President and CEO of the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation. Over 150 guests attended the event, which featured a catered breakfast and presentations honoring outstanding community partners.
Twitter is a social media platform that allows users to post messages called tweets that are up to 140 characters. Users can follow other accounts and see their tweets in their Twitter feed. Businesses can use Twitter to interact with customers, answer questions, promote deals and events, and build their brand. The document provides instructions on how to create an account, tweet, follow others, send direct messages, and engage with trending topics to help promote sales and marketing efforts.
This article discusses four main issues that human resources practitioners must consider when implementing a telework program: (1) what costs the employer is responsible for paying; (2) steps to ensure compliance with wage and hour laws; (3) whether an employer can require employees to telework; and (4) which states employment taxes must be paid in. The article provides guidance on each of these issues and emphasizes that properly implementing a telework program requires thoughtful analysis of the legal constraints to realize the benefits while avoiding costly legal claims.
"How to solve unsolvable problems in projects" (33rd Degree, Kraków)Marcin Kokott
This document appears to be a listing of sponsors and topics for an event or publication. It includes the following:
- A "Main sponsor" section
- Several topic titles in various languages including "Effective Java", "CDI extensions", and "Hadoop: Divide and Conquer Gigantic Datasets"
- Names of speakers or authors associated with some of the topics
The document provides a high-level overview of sponsors and a variety of technical topics without going into detail about any single topic. It references topics in both English and other languages.
The document discusses the process for evolving solutions and the roles of coaches in that process. It describes the different solution statuses including framed, draft, reviewed, rework, internal, published, suspect, and obsolete. It outlines expectations for coaches such as reviewing solutions, providing feedback, and participating in meetings. Coaches are also advised to utilize queries and filters to review solutions by status, owner, and product. The document provides guidance on what coaches should look for when reviewing solutions and tips for ensuring solutions are properly formatted, technically valid, and findable/usable.
Transformational leadership inspires organizations to adapt to accelerating change. It motivates followers by closing the gap between leaders' professed values and actual values in use. Transformational leaders act as role models, motivate followers with a vision of the future, stimulate innovation, and support individual growth. They are needed to help organizations and employees cope with disruption and maintain productivity.
Business Process Reengineering meets Socio Technical Systems. An insight in the backgrounds of BPR and providing STS as an alternative. Or a best of both worlds perspective?
This document discusses the managerial decision-making process. It describes the process as having six main functions: setting objectives, searching for alternatives, comparing and evaluating alternatives, making the choice, implementing decisions, and follow-up/control. These functions are interrelated and dynamic. The process aims to identify the best alternative to attain the objectives by systematically evaluating options and their ability to meet criteria derived from the objectives.
This document discusses designing user interfaces for knowledge workers using screens. It proposes spending more time envisioning high-level concepts and strategies for applications before focusing on details. The goal is to create extraordinary tools that meaningfully fit how people work, rather than forcing changes. Teams should explore a breadth of concepts and directions through questioning, and stay true to the vision while allowing it to evolve into a reality.
This document summarizes theories and applications of motivation. It discusses early motivation theories like Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory and Herzberg's two-factor theory. Contemporary theories covered include goal setting theory, reinforcement theory, and equity theory. The document also examines applying motivation through job design, employee involvement programs, and rewarding employees with variable pay programs and flexible benefits.
Andrew Brennan and Ruth Banner - DVD training packageCOT SSNP
This document introduces a training DVD that teaches a low-arousal approach for de-escalating challenging behavior in patients with acquired brain injuries. It aims to address high staff turnover, which disrupts continuity of care. Currently, minimal staff training exists for managing challenging behavior. The DVD aims to effectively train large numbers of staff and improve risk management. It evaluates the unit's incident reports over the past year to understand the types of challenging behaviors occurring and justify the need for alternative training approaches that focus on positive relationships rather than power struggles. The DVD's goals are to provide a stand-alone training package for new and current staff on an interdisciplinary approach to working with patients who exhibit challenging behaviors following brain injuries.
The document discusses approaches to improving knowledge worker productivity. It argues that the dominant approach of designing organizational structures and then fitting roles and people into them may not be effective for knowledge workers. An alternative approach is proposed that focuses first on the person, their passions and skills, and then tailors roles and organizational structures to better fit individuals. This person-centered approach includes using passion inventories, flexible job descriptions, and lateral career moves to better align people with work they find meaningful. The goal is to recruit the right people and place them in positions and an organization structured in a way that allows them to perform at their best.
The BPM Benefits Realisation Framework explores the BPM journey most organisations embark upon. It stresses on the specific benefits each initiative results in. If your organisation is looking to formulate a roadmap, this framework will help. If you in the \'middle\' of your BPM quest, use this framework to put your benefits into perspective.
1) The term "Lean" is an unfortunate phrase that does not fully capture the philosophy of the Toyota Production System, which focuses on effectiveness and doing the right things, rather than just efficiency.
2) In other languages, Lean is translated differently, focusing more on concepts like essentials, benefits to people, or appropriate management.
3) In the UK, quality frameworks for general practitioners incentivize activities like quick appointments that can encourage doing the wrong things righter, rather than improving actual patient outcomes.
1. Information architecture is becoming increasingly important as businesses transition fully to the digital space.
2. User-centered design principles should be at the core of how information architecture and interaction design are approached to ensure solutions meet user needs.
3. The motivations, needs, and experiences of users must be understood through techniques like cognitive empathy in order to create compassionate and effective digital solutions.
SAMPLE PORTFOLIO. Designer owned and operated custom millinery business. As owner and designer, responsibilities include all facets of business operations, including creative and artistic direction, materials purchasing, product design and development, quality control, package design, marketing, web design, social media, and contracting of vendor services (photography, models, hair/makeup, and wardrobe).
Este documento proporciona una lista de 105 estudiantes de la jornada nocturna que realizaron las pruebas SABER del 2015, incluyendo su número de registro, nombre y número de documento de identidad. Además, indica que con esta información los estudiantes pueden acceder a sus resultados en la página web del ICFES.
La tarjeta madre es la pieza central de una computadora, ya que conecta y controla todos los componentes principales como la CPU, la memoria RAM y las tarjetas de expansión. Proporciona puertos para conectar periféricos externos como teclados, monitores y discos duros, y contiene chips que controlan funciones como la entrada y salida de datos y la comunicación entre componentes.
The document discusses the UK government's reforms to the welfare benefits system beginning in 2010. The key goals of the reforms were to simplify the social security system, improve incentives to work, and promote fairness. Major changes included the introduction of Universal Credit to replace existing working-age benefits, changes to indexation of benefits, housing benefit reform, and the planned replacement of Disability Living Allowance with a new Personal Independence Payment.
The San Diego Workforce Partnership held its annual Recognition Breakfast in 2011. Various workforce development organizations, educators, and partners were awarded for their service and contributions. Keynote speaker Julie Meier Wright received a legacy award for her leadership as President and CEO of the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation. Over 150 guests attended the event, which featured a catered breakfast and presentations honoring outstanding community partners.
Twitter is a social media platform that allows users to post messages called tweets that are up to 140 characters. Users can follow other accounts and see their tweets in their Twitter feed. Businesses can use Twitter to interact with customers, answer questions, promote deals and events, and build their brand. The document provides instructions on how to create an account, tweet, follow others, send direct messages, and engage with trending topics to help promote sales and marketing efforts.
Driving Down Cost Through Workplace Strategies: Installment 2- Amount of SpaceGina Payne, LEED AP, ID+C
White Paper: Installment 2- Amount of Space
In this second installment (of three), we will take a look at real estate and facility drivers that are directly related to how the amount of space has a direct impact as a cost driver. More concisely, we are talking about managing the real estate supply to meet business demand.
The document provides an overview of the Business Debtline (BDL) service, which offers telephone-based debt advice to self-employed clients. BDL aims to outline resources available, types of clients served, and main problems experienced. Key challenges for self-employed clients include cash flow issues, late payers, using personal credit for businesses, and difficulties obtaining legal help. BDL advisers provide advice on business and personal debts, insolvency options, and debt solutions, and can signpost clients to other resources. Limitations are that BDL does not offer legal advice, face-to-face meetings, or direct funding.
The document summarizes the outcome of a review of the Lending Code and new provisions that were added. Key points include:
1) A review of the Lending Code received 33 consultation responses and resulted in 30 of 43 recommendations being fully accepted, with some compromises on others.
2) New provisions were added around credit assessments, financial difficulties, debt sales, and consideration of customers with mental health problems.
3) Ensuring industry commitment to the Code, robust monitoring and enforcement by the Lending Standards Board, and increasing awareness of the Code are priorities to ensure its continued effectiveness.
IMA conference. Marie Spiers Combating fuel Povertycsiarkiewicz
Fuel poverty is defined as needing to spend more than 10% of household income on energy costs to heat the home adequately. Vulnerable groups like the elderly are disproportionately affected by fuel poverty which can negatively impact physical and mental health. There are various schemes to assist those in fuel poverty including financial assistance programs, energy efficiency measures, debt repayment plans, and priority services to prevent utility disconnections.
Jak wprowadzić elementy indywidualizacji w nauczaniu wykorzystując mechanikę gier i platformę Moodle
How to individualzie learning using gamification rules on Moodle
Magento 2 uses modern technologies like PHP 5.5/5.6, HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, and Less. It has improved performance and scalability through features like Varnish support, Redis caching, improved indexing, and dependency injection. Customizations are more streamlined through plugins, XML validations, and service contracts that define loose couplings between modules. Magento 2 also has a stronger focus on quality and testing with a new testing framework, continuous integration, and more test coverage.
Mongodb is a non-relational, document-oriented database that provides flexibility, scalability and performance. It stores data in JSON-like documents which can vary in structure, and is schemaless. This allows for easy scaling and flexibility compared to relational databases. However, mongodb does not support joins or transactions. It is not a direct replacement for relational databases, but can be used for applications that prioritize flexibility, scalability and performance over features like joins and transactions. Mongodb uses embedding, replication sets and sharding to scale without these features.
One XP Experience: Introducing Agile (XP) Software Development into a Culture...David Leip
The document discusses introducing agile (XP) software development practices into a large corporate environment that traditionally used waterfall methodologies. It describes training the multidisciplinary team, which includes programmers, information architects, visual designers, and others. While the developers were willing to try XP, integrating it posed challenges due to the diverse skills, distributed teams, and need for close collaboration. The initial experience found it difficult to identify a clear "customer" representative, and some XP practices like test-first development did not transfer naturally to all disciplines. Overall, the experience highlighted interactions between organizational culture, agile methodology, and the need for changes on both fronts to fully realize the benefits of an agile approach.
The document discusses the problems with traditional project management approaches and the need for agile project management. Specifically:
1) Traditional approaches focused too much on upfront planning, rigid processes, and control which did not work well for software projects that require flexibility and adaptation.
2) This led to many failed software projects that went over budget and schedule. Studies found only about 18% of traditional projects succeeded.
3) For agile methodologies to be successfully adopted, management needs to change its fundamental assumptions and move to a new agile project management framework focused on adaptability, feedback, and empowering teams.
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The document discusses project management fundamentals and tools. It covers topics like change management, configuration management, reviews, directing work, and productivity. The key points are:
1) Change management is a major challenge and different types of changes need to be managed, like changes in scope, efforts, and deliverables.
2) Tools help standardize processes like capturing change requests and tracking project baselines. This improves information retrieval and traceability.
3) Reviews are important to ensure quality but require motivation and proper planning to be effective. Metrics can analyze review performance over time.
4) Tracking work estimates, productivity, and team availability helps manage projects proactively and communicate status updates accurately. Simple templates
1. The document discusses a case where an IT implementation project at a call center was facing challenges with select employee groups due to a lack of understanding of individual traits and how they impact change tolerance.
2. It introduces the concept of a "Worker's Microcosm" framework to gain a holistic understanding of workers' profiles, performance drivers, interests and how they align with job design and corporate systems before implementing changes.
3. Applying this framework through behavioral assessment tools during an ERP integration project helped identify the most compatible workers for specific process roles, improving performance synergy and project success.
An agent based approach for building complex software systemsIcaro Santos
1) The document discusses an agent-based approach for developing complex software systems. It argues that agent-oriented approaches are well-suited for building distributed systems due to their ability to model complexity, interactions, and organizational relationships.
2) Complex systems inherently exhibit hierarchy, nearly decomposable subsystems, and changing interactions. An agent-based approach models a system as autonomous agents that can achieve objectives through flexible and decentralized interactions.
3) Key advantages of the agent approach include its use of agents, interactions, and organizations as natural abstractions to represent subsystems, components, and relationships in complex systems. It also allows runtime determination of interactions to reduce coupling between components.
This document provides an overview and introduction to enterprise architecture. It defines enterprise architecture as a coherent set of principles, methods and models used to design an organization's structure, business processes, information systems and infrastructure. The architecture provides a holistic view that balances local optimizations with global needs. It is both a product that guides development and a process for creating and maintaining the architecture over time. Drivers for enterprise architecture include the need for business-IT alignment, strategic goals, and responding to external pressures.
The document discusses developing multimodal interfaces for building operational services personnel using mobile terminals. It describes implementing a graphical user interface, speech recognition, location tracking using RFID, and hands-free operation to minimize interaction overhead. Benchmarking found embedded carbon was a better sustainability indicator than operating energy.
Smart Grid Operational Services Selecting The Right Mobile Solution Fact SheetGord Reynolds
This document outlines a six stage process for selecting and deploying a successful mobile solution. The stages are:
1. Create a business requirement plan by defining objectives, requirements, users, and geography. Consult business unit experts.
2. Assess input against objectives and write the business requirement plan, defining non-technical requirements.
3. Define solution requirements by translating business requirements into technical details. Research available technologies.
By following these stages, an organization can develop a clear understanding of needs, requirements, and available technologies to select the optimal mobile solution that meets objectives and improves business processes. Consultation with stakeholders and experts at each stage helps ensure the chosen solution is well-defined and will provide benefits.
The document discusses agile software development and extreme programming (XP). It defines agility as effective response to change through communication, flexible planning, and incremental delivery. XP emphasizes rapid delivery, customer collaboration, unit testing, pair programming, and refactoring code. The debate around XP includes whether its informal requirements and lack of formal design can accommodate complex systems with changing needs. Other agile processes mentioned include Scrum, DSDM, Crystal, and Agile Modeling.
The document is an executive report from IBM that discusses how effective customer analytics strategies can help drive top-line growth. It identifies four stages of organizational capabilities and associated customer analytics strategies. The first stage focuses on gaining insights from customer data to reduce costs. The second stage shares information internally and across channels to improve the customer experience. The third stage aims to move from reacting to data to predicting customer needs. The report provides examples of companies that have achieved growth by implementing analytics strategies aligned with their capabilities.
This document provides an overview of agile principles and the Scrum framework. It discusses the history and development of agile methodologies from the 1970s to present day. Key topics covered include the Scrum roles of Product Owner, ScrumMaster, and Development Team, as well as Scrum events such as Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Retrospective. The document contrasts traditional plan-driven and agile approaches to software development.
1. The document evaluates Easy Mobile's change management process during an ERP implementation.
2. It identifies challenges like executive fatigue, limited change management scope, and late process champion identification.
3. Recommendations include communicating engagement duration upfront, extending due diligence to change management, and creating internal capacity to sustain communications.
- Organisational agility is developed through adopting agile operating principles across three domains: technology architecture, operating model, and mindset.
- An agility assessment identifies existing principles and determines which create or inhibit agility. It provides insight into changes needed.
- Leaders influence agility through their understanding and application of operating principles across these domains. Adopting agile principles confers agility.
Smart Grid Operational Services: Selecting the Right Mobile SolutionCapgemini
Whether you manage field service operations within the utilities industry or some other large business operation, a mobile computing solution can strengthen your field service capabilities, lower your operating costs and improve customer service.
With mobile devices in hand, field technicians, engineers and supervisors alike discover that information flow increases and costly data entry errors become issues from the past.
The mobile computing market abounds with “cool” devices, but embracing innovative technology alone can easily distract an organization from finding an intelligent mobile solution that will ultimately meet the needs of its users.
In other words, preparing for the technology is every bit as critical as selecting it.
This paper describes the 3 stages recommended for deciding on, and ranking the importance of, available solution options, and how proper planning can improve the total cost of ownership (TCO) of the solution. It also reviews common obstacles that impede deployment and thwart a positive return on investment.
Learn how to define and implement a successful mobile program for better service, improved equipment maintenance, and efficient operations.
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This document summarizes a project to implement a new timesheet system for a software development company called Orbis Technology. The existing in-house timesheet system was outdated and unable to handle the increasing number of users and projects. After analyzing requirements and options, it was decided that Orbis would join the global timesheet system being implemented by its parent company NDS. This provided benefits like a go-live date aligned with Orbis' needs, low costs as NDS covered development expenses, and risk transfer to NDS. The project objectives were to implement the new system meeting requirements for performance, scalability, robustness and user-friendliness across Windows and Linux platforms.
Supply chain migration from lean and functional to agile and customisednixianshi
This document discusses the differences between lean and agile supply chains. Lean focuses on efficiency and eliminating waste to lower costs, while agile focuses on flexibility and responsiveness to customer needs. Agile supply chains aim to provide the right product at the right time, making availability the top priority over cost. The automotive industry is used as an example of a lean manufacturing process that is not agile in its overall supply chain, as inventory levels remain high. To be truly responsive requires elements of both lean and agile approaches working together in a hybrid model.
Production and Operation Management(Sarah Olivarez-Cruz)Sarah Cruz
This document discusses production and operations management in a global environment. It defines production/operations management and its objectives of producing the right quality, quantity, time, and cost. It also discusses concepts like operations management, manufacturing vs service organizations, strategic vs tactical decisions, and functions that support operations management. Finally, it discusses preparing for the future by addressing globalization, outsourcing, environment, knowledge, and information.
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Driving Down Cost Through Workplace Strategies: Installment 1-The Physical Space
1. Driving Down Cost Through Workplace
Strategies
Installment 1- The Physical Space
by Erica Stricker and Gina Payne
The Challenge: down. At a high level the drivers can be put into
Cost containment is no new subject when it three categories: 1) Type of space, 2) Amount
comes to running a business, and with the state of space, and 3) Space procurement and
of today’s economic environment, it is a subject maintenance. In the first installment, we will take
that continues to shape corporate real estate a look at real estate and facility drivers that are
decisions. directly related to the physical environment or the
“work space” itself.
Executives who are faced with cost reduction
initiatives must turn toward real estate and
Cost Driver #1:
facilities management as a cost driver. Churn
Challenges emerge as we are called to respond Churn is the process of moving employees-
to ever changing business needs, and the as individuals or as small or large groups.
impact those needs have on physical space. Organizations are dynamic, and as a result,
While recommending appropriate workplace people and equipment move on a regular basis.
solutions, we consider viewpoints of all those Whether it is a corporate restructure, or a new
who have a vested interest in directional changes project that requires cross pollination of ideas
within an organization, and the impact those across work groups, churn is necessary to meet
changes have on people and place. Success the changing demands of an organization.
can come in quantifiable and non-quantifiable
In dynamic organizations, moves can be
ways. We are continuously called upon to work
the vehicle used to open up the lines of
within the parameters of the physical space, as
communication between work groups, improve
well as the parameters of the bottom line, and
workflow and increase productivity. There are
recommending workplace solutions that won’t
typically three types of moves:
jeopardize the strategic goals of an organization
is critical. 1. box move (moving a person with telecom),
This paper is a first installment of three, in which 2. furniture move (requires furniture re-
we will take a look at cost drivers in real estate configuration)
and facilities, and how we keep those costs 3. construction moves (requires some type of
construction to accomplish)
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2. Box moves account for the most common type work environments and inefficient space go hand- encompass telework, mobile workers, hoteling,
of move experienced by a corporate real estate in-hand. When a rigid space cannot respond home offices, and satellite office space. Through
portfolio. easily to the ebbs and flows of a business’s a study between Steelcase and CoreNet Global,
changing needs, cost is incurred in multiple ways. these strategies were categorized into five
Although there are benefits associated with
This could mean 1) not only box moves (moving sections:
executing a move, with it, comes cost. According
of people), but 2) furniture reconfiguration or
to the IFMA 2010 benchmarking study, the A) Telework or Telecommuting in which an
change in furniture, 3) and/or construction costs.
average churn rate across all industries in 32%, employee works from home, substituting
Lack of versatility also drives space inefficiency
and the average cost of a box move is $142. telecommunications for the commute to work.
because 1) building partitions will eat away
Monitoring churn is very important to understand at square footage, 2) changes are made in a B) Mobile Work, a work style in which a person
areas of cost containment opportunities, but reactive mode and solutions are designed to work consistently uses multiple spaces, both inside and
churn is not all bad. It is a necessary activity for around existing space constraints. out of the office, to accomplish his/her work.
the reasons previously discussed. As such, it is a
Solution – Quick hit #2: C) Hoteling, temporary workspaces assigned
part of business that is here to stay.
Increasing Efficiency through Densification of Space through a reservation system; typically used by
Solution- Quick Hit #1 Talk to a planner about a corporate real estate mobile workers, but also used by any worker not
Reducing Churn portfolio, and they will likely begin asking for near his/her assigned workstation.
Reducing churn can have more of an impact on metrics as an indicator of the existing view, or
D) Home Office used as an alternative location
cost than merely lowering the cost of moves. It baseline, of the portfolio. Square footage per
to the primary office. Employees may work from
can also have an impact on employee retention. person and efficiency of the space are go-to
home on a set schedule or on an as-needed
There is new work being done to try and considerations. If you find yourself with an
basis.
understand the correlation between business that expansion need and your portfolio metric is
have high churn and the resulting rate of staff 350 square feet allocated per person, it is quite E) Satellite Offices which are smaller spaces
retention. possible (depending upon your industry) that you located in the areas closer to employee’s homes
could reduce that footprint to accommodate your for greater convenience.
Although conclusions are still on the horizon,
businesses growth without an acquisition of more Case Studies
there are some who believe the more stable of
space.
an environment you can provide your employees, Case Study #1: Major US Financial Institution
the happier they are. This, of course, assumes According to the 2009 CoreNet survey, Strategy: Maximizing space utilization saves $9
the type of space they occupy fits the type of companies are trending toward allocating less million
work they need to produce. workspace per employee. The global benchmark
Location: Louisiana & Texas
of 200 or more square feet per person is
While move costs can be significant, employees
beginning to change. Smaller increments are Size: 5 million SF, 38 buildings
are the single most expensive part of any
becoming more common, with almost 50% sitting
company. If stability truly increases employee Timeframe: 1 year
within range of 125-199 square feet per person.
longevity, occupancy planning will become a
Savings: $9 million
major factor in cost containment for all. The Sustainable Solution:
NELSON was engaged to develop a post-merger
Cost Driver #2: Increasing Space Flexibility through Alternative
Workplace Strategies strategic facilities consolidation plan for a major
Lack of Flexibility and Space Inefficiency
Lessons of the current recession will have long US Financial Institution. The project included the
Flexibility can be defined in different ways. It
lasting effects on future strategies, as companies survey of 150 branches throughout the state of
can be defined in terms of a lease commitment
now realize that they don’t have to choose Louisiana within a two-week period. By utilizing
or the adaptability of a physical space. In this
between traditional and alternative workplace strategies discussed in this installment, and
installment, we will focus on the physical space,
strategies. They are blending varied alternatives looking at the overarching goals of the business,
but we will come back to space procurement
to improve space efficiencies, increase this strategic plan maximized their space
in installment three. The adaptability of a built
productivity, and continue to attract and retain utilization and identified areas of cost savings,
environment can be attributed to how it is built
employees. The time-honored traditional office as well as, efficient use of the workplace.
in regard to codes and standards, what type
environment is adapting to new strategies in NELSON was selected for this assignment
of furniture is in use, space entitlement and
an effort to increase worker productivity and because of the client’s strong confidence in the
adjacencies of groups within an organization.
optimize portfolio assets. firm’s strategic planning capabilities, expertise in
Lack of versatility is often the major contributor implementation and cost effectiveness.
to an inflexible work environment, and will Many strategies are currently in use and
ultimately create space inefficiencies. Inflexible employees are taking advantage. The varying
modes of Alternative Workplace Strategies NELSON 2
3. Case Study #2: American Multi-national Financial The NELSON Differentiator
Services Firm At NELSON, we recommend using these
Strategy: Implementing Alternative Workplace strategies as part of the overall solution to
Solutions reducing occupancy costs:
Location: Northeast Region ƒ Reduce churn by better strategic planning
Size: 72 buildings, 15 million SF ƒ Maximize space utilization by decreas-
ing square footage per person. Consider
Savings: Reduced seats by 6,500
implementing space standards or new
NELSON was engaged as a partner in the ways of viewing space
development and implementation of the client’s
ƒ Increase space flexibility and adaptability
strategy in the New York Metropolitan region.
through alternative workplace solutions
In an effort to reduce costs globally the client
developed a high-level AWS approach and ƒ Build a longer term view of CRE – strategic
established regional targets for seat reductions planning, benchmarking comparisons,
and cost savings. NELSON was asked to further workplace / standards and guidelines,
develop the AWS program specific for the AWS, creative facilities management ap-
Northeast region and assist in implementation. proaches
NELSON’s support included: At NELSON, we provide services as solutions
drivers, with 30+ years of experience we have
ƒ Assessing the regional portfolio to deter-
recommended to our clients a combined savings
mine the impact of the AWS program
over an estimated $230 million. NELSON
ƒ Assisting early adopter teams in imple- Strategies will differentiate itself based on an
menting the AWS program approach that is focused on organizational
performance, building the data, utilizing
ƒ Supporting the development of a strategy
highly innovative, fully tested, experienced and
for rolling out the AWS program in the
flexible processes, and a core value of working
region
collaboratively with clients as trusted partners in
ƒ Developing AWS workplace kit of parts driving the solutions.
and design guidelines
ƒ Monitoring and tracking AWS participa-
tion
ƒ Developing marketing materials to assist
in the engagement and adoption of AWS
ƒ Ongoing support of the AWS program
team
NELSON was selected by the client because of
the firm’s proven track record of developing and
implementing AWS programs for other clients. NELSON offers our clients a full range of strat-
The NELSON team worked to ensure a program egies, interior design, architecture, engineer-
was developed that would be adopted by the ing, and information management solutions.
business units and supported achieving CRS’
cost reduction targets. The given timeframe was For more information please contact Donna
three years, with a targeted savings of 6,500 Schroeder, Strategic Services Director at
reduction in seats. DSchroeder@nelsononline.com or
+1 312.917.6228.
www.nelsononline.com
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