The document summarizes challenges facing a telecom company and recommendations to address them. It identifies challenges including training shortfalls, employee stress, system issues, and a narrow customer focus. It then provides recommendations in three key areas - flawless execution, customer retention, and revenue assurance - such as transforming training, automating satisfaction polls, standardizing customer contacts, and implementing call deflection strategies.
The document discusses a session titled "Cloud Meets Contact Center: From Zero to Hero in 14 Days!". The session will cover the benefits of cloud contact centers, strategies for deploying one in 14 days or less, expected ROI, and uniting agents across locations into a virtual call center. The presenter has nearly 30 years of experience in project management and contact center operations. Attendees will learn about EPA's case study deploying a cloud contact center for its Safe Drinking Water Hotline.
This document summarizes a presentation about streamlining and simplifying PeopleSoft applications. It introduces the presenters from SmartERP and their experience with PeopleSoft. The agenda covers PeopleSoft challenges, and examples of automating, streamlining and simplifying common transactions like purchase orders, expenses and personnel actions. Case studies are presented from customers who implemented SmartERP solutions for specific PeopleSoft modules. The presentation aims to demonstrate how SmartERP can help organizations address common pain points and simplify PeopleSoft transactions.
This document discusses how web performance matters for exceeding customer expectations, given the explosion in website size and complexity as well as decreased user tolerance for delays. It notes that page load times have increased dramatically from 1995 to 2012 according to one source. Users expect pages to load quickly, within 2-3 seconds, and will abandon sites or visit them less if they are slower than competitors. The document provides examples of companies that increased revenue significantly by improving page load times. It then summarizes the services of Naalium for affordable website optimization using a virtual service model and experience optimizing performance.
This document introduces an e-recruitment solution called Innovate Recruitment that provides small and medium sized businesses key benefits such as an easy-to-use online job posting and application system. The solution allows businesses to advertise jobs on their website, receive online applications, and use administration tools to manage the recruitment process. It offers features like candidate screening, scheduling interview tools, and reports to measure recruitment performance. The flexible system can be customized to suit a company's recruitment needs and volume.
Lean management is a systematic approach aimed at maximizing value and reducing waste. It was originally developed by Toyota but has since been adopted by many service industries. The document discusses how Wipro and RBS implemented lean management principles. Both companies standardized processes, identified types of waste, and engaged employees. As a result, they achieved cost reductions of 20-30%, lead time reductions, and improved customer satisfaction and productivity.
Secrets of a Scrum Master! Agile Practices for the Service DeskITSM Academy, Inc.
Can agile concepts be applied to the service desk? Absolutely! This session describes the benefits of agile practices and provides a brief introduction to Scrum – an agile way to handle complex projects. The session focuses on specific ways that Scrum and other agile practices can be used to significantly increase the performance of service and support teams. Takeaway tips and techniques you can use to get started immediately, along with lessons learned.
This presentation introduces Traumasoft, a fully integrated EMS software solution. Traumasoft aims to deliver leading edge products, an integrated solution using a common dataset, web-based products requiring no hardware or onsite maintenance, and value-based pricing. Traumasoft provides business development, operational efficiency, and workforce management solutions including a membership program, crew scheduling, ePCR, GPS tracking, fleet maintenance, and certification tracking.
The document summarizes challenges facing a telecom company and recommendations to address them. It identifies challenges including training shortfalls, employee stress, system issues, and a narrow customer focus. It then provides recommendations in three key areas - flawless execution, customer retention, and revenue assurance - such as transforming training, automating satisfaction polls, standardizing customer contacts, and implementing call deflection strategies.
The document discusses a session titled "Cloud Meets Contact Center: From Zero to Hero in 14 Days!". The session will cover the benefits of cloud contact centers, strategies for deploying one in 14 days or less, expected ROI, and uniting agents across locations into a virtual call center. The presenter has nearly 30 years of experience in project management and contact center operations. Attendees will learn about EPA's case study deploying a cloud contact center for its Safe Drinking Water Hotline.
This document summarizes a presentation about streamlining and simplifying PeopleSoft applications. It introduces the presenters from SmartERP and their experience with PeopleSoft. The agenda covers PeopleSoft challenges, and examples of automating, streamlining and simplifying common transactions like purchase orders, expenses and personnel actions. Case studies are presented from customers who implemented SmartERP solutions for specific PeopleSoft modules. The presentation aims to demonstrate how SmartERP can help organizations address common pain points and simplify PeopleSoft transactions.
This document discusses how web performance matters for exceeding customer expectations, given the explosion in website size and complexity as well as decreased user tolerance for delays. It notes that page load times have increased dramatically from 1995 to 2012 according to one source. Users expect pages to load quickly, within 2-3 seconds, and will abandon sites or visit them less if they are slower than competitors. The document provides examples of companies that increased revenue significantly by improving page load times. It then summarizes the services of Naalium for affordable website optimization using a virtual service model and experience optimizing performance.
This document introduces an e-recruitment solution called Innovate Recruitment that provides small and medium sized businesses key benefits such as an easy-to-use online job posting and application system. The solution allows businesses to advertise jobs on their website, receive online applications, and use administration tools to manage the recruitment process. It offers features like candidate screening, scheduling interview tools, and reports to measure recruitment performance. The flexible system can be customized to suit a company's recruitment needs and volume.
Lean management is a systematic approach aimed at maximizing value and reducing waste. It was originally developed by Toyota but has since been adopted by many service industries. The document discusses how Wipro and RBS implemented lean management principles. Both companies standardized processes, identified types of waste, and engaged employees. As a result, they achieved cost reductions of 20-30%, lead time reductions, and improved customer satisfaction and productivity.
Secrets of a Scrum Master! Agile Practices for the Service DeskITSM Academy, Inc.
Can agile concepts be applied to the service desk? Absolutely! This session describes the benefits of agile practices and provides a brief introduction to Scrum – an agile way to handle complex projects. The session focuses on specific ways that Scrum and other agile practices can be used to significantly increase the performance of service and support teams. Takeaway tips and techniques you can use to get started immediately, along with lessons learned.
This presentation introduces Traumasoft, a fully integrated EMS software solution. Traumasoft aims to deliver leading edge products, an integrated solution using a common dataset, web-based products requiring no hardware or onsite maintenance, and value-based pricing. Traumasoft provides business development, operational efficiency, and workforce management solutions including a membership program, crew scheduling, ePCR, GPS tracking, fleet maintenance, and certification tracking.
The document discusses how support.com uses Agile methodologies like Scrum to manage product development across teams located in different countries. Key aspects that help make Scrum work globally include having local product managers and QA resources, weekly Scrum of Scrums video calls, periodic in-person meetings, common tools for requirements and source control, and 4-week Sprint cycles with mid-Sprint planning to accommodate changes across time zones. CEO support is also critical to avoid overrides after Sprints are planned.
The document describes how an IT support center used Agile/Kanban principles to improve their operations. They broke work into user stories with SLAs, limited work in progress, and visualized workflow on a Kanban board. This increased transparency, reduced bottlenecks, and improved response time by focusing on the highest priority work.
JDE & Peoplesoft 3 _ James Hoal _ Achieving faster results with JDE HCM Workf...InSync2011
Faster Results with JD Edwards EnterpriseOne discusses how JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Workflow Engine can automate and streamline human capital management processes. It describes how workflow can engage employees, simplify recruiting and onboarding, and streamline employee transactions. Implementing workflow automation can increase productivity, contain costs, cut HR costs, and identify and develop top talent. The document provides examples of workflows that can be implemented for new hire onboarding, employee self-service, performance reviews, and employee terminations.
This document discusses set-up reduction and single-minute exchange of dies (SMED) methodology. It defines set-up time and explains that set-ups can be reduced by 59/60ths through SMED. The document outlines why set-up reduction is important, how it is implemented through separating internal and external tasks, and provides tips for establishing standards and sustainability. The overall goal is to reduce set-up times to less than 10 minutes through continuous improvement.
How to build an E-procurement Machine - Concept to-controlCoupa Software
Berkshire Bank implemented an e-procurement system from Coupa to gain greater control over spending and drive savings. The cloud-based system allowed for a rapid implementation across 41 branches. User adoption was increased through training, championing change, and making the system easier to use than alternatives. This provided real-time visibility into 100% of indirect spending. The bank can now more easily manage vendors, contracts, and policies. They expect to save 5-20% on managed spending and reduce purchasing operating costs by automating processes.
Webinar: Back Office: February 28, 2012Judy Misbin
Find out how optimizing your back office can help improve your firms consistency and metrics around compliance, customer experience, and operational efficiencies
Amazing Winter Keynote - IT as a Team SportPaul Muller
This document discusses how IT organizations can stay relevant in a world of multi-sourcing by managing metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs). It emphasizes the importance of executing systematically using strategy, planning and governance. It also stresses the need for security intelligence and risk management to securely operate proactively. Finally, it discusses how the right tools are needed for continuous integration and delivery to help organizations build faster.
Paul Leamon presents common back office challenges, and defines what a world-class back office looks like, and how to build one. Additionally, explains the business impacts of becoming a world-class back office.
Astute Business Solutions - Fast Track Impact Analysis for PeopleSoft 9.2 Upg...Arvind Rajan
Fast Track Impact Analyzer and Accelerated Upgrade for PeopleSoft provides tools and services to assess and accelerate PeopleSoft upgrades. It uses an automated assessment tool to quickly analyze upgrade efforts and produce reliable estimates. This helps clients upgrade more quickly and reduces risks and costs compared to traditional manual approaches. Services include upgrade planning, testing, and support.
This document provides a summary of Hemant Tiwari's qualifications for an IT service management role. It summarizes his nearly 4 years of experience in service management, operations, resourcing, training and communications planning. It also lists his technical skills including experience with MS Office, Webex, Maximo, ISM, Citrix, ServiceNow and TSO. His past work experience includes over 4 years with IBM and Barclays in roles such as Change Manager, Senior Operations Professional, and Process Advisor focused on incident management, change management and customer support.
Managing a mobile workforce can be chaotic. Work orders change, traffic flow changes, appointment windows change;
everything is in flux. What if you could schedule and track your mobile employees based on these changing conditions? What
if you could update your customers on actual arrival times by sending them an email, text or automated call? Suddenly, your
efficiencies would improve, your operation costs would fall and your customers would be more satisfied.
Sage 50 Quantum Accounting 2013 is a business management software that offers accounting, customer, inventory, employee, and job management functionality. It provides tools for financial reporting and analysis, customizable dashboards, and multi-user access. The software aims to offer full business management capabilities at a lower cost than mid-market or premium solutions. It supports up to 40 users and automatic upgrades through a paid support plan.
Reporting, Analytics and Dashboard Services for Local Authoritiesdamian_85
Tovicci is a business intelligence service that provides dashboards, reports, and access to key business information for local authorities using aggregated data from multiple sources. It consists of specialized dashboards and reports designed to support main business challenges in areas like housing, repairs and maintenance, voids, engineering services, and compliance. Tovicci for Housing helps reduce duplication of work orders, manage contractor costs and work quality, and improve customer satisfaction.
The document discusses service operation processes including event management, incident management, request fulfillment, and access management. It describes event management as monitoring all events through the IT infrastructure to allow normal operation and detect exceptions. Incident management focuses on restoring service as quickly as possible to minimize business impact. Access management grants authorized users access to services while restricting unauthorized users.
Managed print services from PrintbyPremier+More help organizations reduce costs, save energy, and eliminate waste through practices like duplex printing, device consolidation, and replacing old equipment. An assessment of an organization's printer fleet identifies opportunities to streamline printing and lower expenses. Installation of monitoring software allows remote management and optimization of the fleet over time. These services aim to fulfill green goals while providing simplified, cost-effective printing.
This document describes a complete e-recruitment solution called Innovate Recruitment that provides tools to manage the entire recruitment process online. It allows employers to advertise jobs, receive applications, screen and sort candidates, schedule interviews, and monitor recruitment analytics. The system offers features like an online application portal, candidate profile sections, automatic job alerts, and administrative tools for managing the process. It aims to help companies improve recruitment, reduce costs, and maximize performance.
Impact 2011 2899 - Designing high performance straight through processes usin...Brian Petrini
The overall goal in any business is to do more business efficiently. Straight through processes is a term used to describe a series of automated tasks that take place without any or with minimal human intervention. There are many ways to design straight through processes. However, there are specific considerations that need to be taken into account to design straight through processes for high performing scenarios, whether that is a large number of processes or stringent SLAs. In this presentation, we will discuss several design considerations that will help increase process performance and efficiently utilize system resources.
Measuring the Results of your Agile AdoptionSoftware Guru
1. Teams assess their adoption of desired agile practices using a simple questionnaire in 15 minutes.
2. Teams then discuss areas for improvement and list specific actions they will take in another 15 minutes.
3. An assistant helps the team focus on continuous improvement by implementing the agreed upon actions. This encourages efficient improvement over time.
Naveen Kumar Srivastav is seeking a role that allows him to utilize his 12 years of experience in IT service and support. He has experience managing incidents, problems, and changes. He aims to excel in information technology and help organizations grow. His skills include root cause analysis, project management, and service management processes.
Process and product performane-based assessment Dianopesidas
This document discusses process-oriented and product-oriented performance-based assessment. Process-oriented assessment evaluates the actual task performance and does not emphasize the output. It aims to understand the processes a person uses to complete a task. Product-oriented assessment focuses on the final product and output, and evaluates it based on levels of performance like novice, skilled, and expert. Both types of assessment require carefully designing learning tasks and creating rubrics with criteria, levels of performance, and descriptors to consistently score students.
Process oriented performance-based assessmentrenarch
Performance assessment involves observing and judging a student's demonstration of skills or competencies through tasks like creating a product, responding to a prompt, or giving a presentation. It emphasizes a student's ability to apply their knowledge and skills to produce their own work. Performance assessments typically require sustained effort over multiple days and involve explaining, justifying, and defending ideas. They rely on trained evaluators to score student work using pre-specified criteria and standards. While performance assessments integrate assessment with learning and provide formative feedback, they can be difficult to score reliably and require significant time from teachers and students.
This document discusses opportunities to enhance a contact center through improvements in people, processes, and technology. It recommends standardizing processes, implementing guidance systems and desktop analytics to increase efficiency. It also suggests consolidating systems and queues, optimizing workforce management, and increasing self-service options to reduce costs while improving customer experience. Treatment engines are proposed to intelligently route customers for collections or retention efforts based on their profile and behavior. Overall the recommendations aim to increase productivity, sales culture, and customer satisfaction while lowering costs.
The document discusses how support.com uses Agile methodologies like Scrum to manage product development across teams located in different countries. Key aspects that help make Scrum work globally include having local product managers and QA resources, weekly Scrum of Scrums video calls, periodic in-person meetings, common tools for requirements and source control, and 4-week Sprint cycles with mid-Sprint planning to accommodate changes across time zones. CEO support is also critical to avoid overrides after Sprints are planned.
The document describes how an IT support center used Agile/Kanban principles to improve their operations. They broke work into user stories with SLAs, limited work in progress, and visualized workflow on a Kanban board. This increased transparency, reduced bottlenecks, and improved response time by focusing on the highest priority work.
JDE & Peoplesoft 3 _ James Hoal _ Achieving faster results with JDE HCM Workf...InSync2011
Faster Results with JD Edwards EnterpriseOne discusses how JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Workflow Engine can automate and streamline human capital management processes. It describes how workflow can engage employees, simplify recruiting and onboarding, and streamline employee transactions. Implementing workflow automation can increase productivity, contain costs, cut HR costs, and identify and develop top talent. The document provides examples of workflows that can be implemented for new hire onboarding, employee self-service, performance reviews, and employee terminations.
This document discusses set-up reduction and single-minute exchange of dies (SMED) methodology. It defines set-up time and explains that set-ups can be reduced by 59/60ths through SMED. The document outlines why set-up reduction is important, how it is implemented through separating internal and external tasks, and provides tips for establishing standards and sustainability. The overall goal is to reduce set-up times to less than 10 minutes through continuous improvement.
How to build an E-procurement Machine - Concept to-controlCoupa Software
Berkshire Bank implemented an e-procurement system from Coupa to gain greater control over spending and drive savings. The cloud-based system allowed for a rapid implementation across 41 branches. User adoption was increased through training, championing change, and making the system easier to use than alternatives. This provided real-time visibility into 100% of indirect spending. The bank can now more easily manage vendors, contracts, and policies. They expect to save 5-20% on managed spending and reduce purchasing operating costs by automating processes.
Webinar: Back Office: February 28, 2012Judy Misbin
Find out how optimizing your back office can help improve your firms consistency and metrics around compliance, customer experience, and operational efficiencies
Amazing Winter Keynote - IT as a Team SportPaul Muller
This document discusses how IT organizations can stay relevant in a world of multi-sourcing by managing metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs). It emphasizes the importance of executing systematically using strategy, planning and governance. It also stresses the need for security intelligence and risk management to securely operate proactively. Finally, it discusses how the right tools are needed for continuous integration and delivery to help organizations build faster.
Paul Leamon presents common back office challenges, and defines what a world-class back office looks like, and how to build one. Additionally, explains the business impacts of becoming a world-class back office.
Astute Business Solutions - Fast Track Impact Analysis for PeopleSoft 9.2 Upg...Arvind Rajan
Fast Track Impact Analyzer and Accelerated Upgrade for PeopleSoft provides tools and services to assess and accelerate PeopleSoft upgrades. It uses an automated assessment tool to quickly analyze upgrade efforts and produce reliable estimates. This helps clients upgrade more quickly and reduces risks and costs compared to traditional manual approaches. Services include upgrade planning, testing, and support.
This document provides a summary of Hemant Tiwari's qualifications for an IT service management role. It summarizes his nearly 4 years of experience in service management, operations, resourcing, training and communications planning. It also lists his technical skills including experience with MS Office, Webex, Maximo, ISM, Citrix, ServiceNow and TSO. His past work experience includes over 4 years with IBM and Barclays in roles such as Change Manager, Senior Operations Professional, and Process Advisor focused on incident management, change management and customer support.
Managing a mobile workforce can be chaotic. Work orders change, traffic flow changes, appointment windows change;
everything is in flux. What if you could schedule and track your mobile employees based on these changing conditions? What
if you could update your customers on actual arrival times by sending them an email, text or automated call? Suddenly, your
efficiencies would improve, your operation costs would fall and your customers would be more satisfied.
Sage 50 Quantum Accounting 2013 is a business management software that offers accounting, customer, inventory, employee, and job management functionality. It provides tools for financial reporting and analysis, customizable dashboards, and multi-user access. The software aims to offer full business management capabilities at a lower cost than mid-market or premium solutions. It supports up to 40 users and automatic upgrades through a paid support plan.
Reporting, Analytics and Dashboard Services for Local Authoritiesdamian_85
Tovicci is a business intelligence service that provides dashboards, reports, and access to key business information for local authorities using aggregated data from multiple sources. It consists of specialized dashboards and reports designed to support main business challenges in areas like housing, repairs and maintenance, voids, engineering services, and compliance. Tovicci for Housing helps reduce duplication of work orders, manage contractor costs and work quality, and improve customer satisfaction.
The document discusses service operation processes including event management, incident management, request fulfillment, and access management. It describes event management as monitoring all events through the IT infrastructure to allow normal operation and detect exceptions. Incident management focuses on restoring service as quickly as possible to minimize business impact. Access management grants authorized users access to services while restricting unauthorized users.
Managed print services from PrintbyPremier+More help organizations reduce costs, save energy, and eliminate waste through practices like duplex printing, device consolidation, and replacing old equipment. An assessment of an organization's printer fleet identifies opportunities to streamline printing and lower expenses. Installation of monitoring software allows remote management and optimization of the fleet over time. These services aim to fulfill green goals while providing simplified, cost-effective printing.
This document describes a complete e-recruitment solution called Innovate Recruitment that provides tools to manage the entire recruitment process online. It allows employers to advertise jobs, receive applications, screen and sort candidates, schedule interviews, and monitor recruitment analytics. The system offers features like an online application portal, candidate profile sections, automatic job alerts, and administrative tools for managing the process. It aims to help companies improve recruitment, reduce costs, and maximize performance.
Impact 2011 2899 - Designing high performance straight through processes usin...Brian Petrini
The overall goal in any business is to do more business efficiently. Straight through processes is a term used to describe a series of automated tasks that take place without any or with minimal human intervention. There are many ways to design straight through processes. However, there are specific considerations that need to be taken into account to design straight through processes for high performing scenarios, whether that is a large number of processes or stringent SLAs. In this presentation, we will discuss several design considerations that will help increase process performance and efficiently utilize system resources.
Measuring the Results of your Agile AdoptionSoftware Guru
1. Teams assess their adoption of desired agile practices using a simple questionnaire in 15 minutes.
2. Teams then discuss areas for improvement and list specific actions they will take in another 15 minutes.
3. An assistant helps the team focus on continuous improvement by implementing the agreed upon actions. This encourages efficient improvement over time.
Naveen Kumar Srivastav is seeking a role that allows him to utilize his 12 years of experience in IT service and support. He has experience managing incidents, problems, and changes. He aims to excel in information technology and help organizations grow. His skills include root cause analysis, project management, and service management processes.
Process and product performane-based assessment Dianopesidas
This document discusses process-oriented and product-oriented performance-based assessment. Process-oriented assessment evaluates the actual task performance and does not emphasize the output. It aims to understand the processes a person uses to complete a task. Product-oriented assessment focuses on the final product and output, and evaluates it based on levels of performance like novice, skilled, and expert. Both types of assessment require carefully designing learning tasks and creating rubrics with criteria, levels of performance, and descriptors to consistently score students.
Process oriented performance-based assessmentrenarch
Performance assessment involves observing and judging a student's demonstration of skills or competencies through tasks like creating a product, responding to a prompt, or giving a presentation. It emphasizes a student's ability to apply their knowledge and skills to produce their own work. Performance assessments typically require sustained effort over multiple days and involve explaining, justifying, and defending ideas. They rely on trained evaluators to score student work using pre-specified criteria and standards. While performance assessments integrate assessment with learning and provide formative feedback, they can be difficult to score reliably and require significant time from teachers and students.
This document discusses opportunities to enhance a contact center through improvements in people, processes, and technology. It recommends standardizing processes, implementing guidance systems and desktop analytics to increase efficiency. It also suggests consolidating systems and queues, optimizing workforce management, and increasing self-service options to reduce costs while improving customer experience. Treatment engines are proposed to intelligently route customers for collections or retention efforts based on their profile and behavior. Overall the recommendations aim to increase productivity, sales culture, and customer satisfaction while lowering costs.
This document provides a four-step process for creating a business plan and roadmap for transforming a contact center to an IP/SIP environment. The four steps are: 1) Assess the current state of people, processes and technology; 2) Determine the ideal future state based on business strategies; 3) Analyze gaps between the current and ideal states; 4) Build a transformation roadmap that provides a phased plan and measurable goals to move from the current to ideal state. Developing an ROI-based business case is also important to obtain approval and funding for the transformation project.
The document summarizes the key stages and focus areas of a business transformation process for a telecom company. The process involves conducting a business audit to identify improvement areas, developing focus processes to diagnose issues like organizational culture and management systems, rolling out solutions across the organization, and institutionalizing the changes. The business audit would analyze performance, strategy, culture, processes, operations, marketing, sales and customer satisfaction. Implementation requires forming cross-functional teams and a steering committee to guide the transformation work at all levels of the organization. The goal is to achieve sustainable strategic and cultural changes that improve business results.
COSO Implementation: Getting Real, Getting It RightBlackLine
Join this webcast featuring senior-level financial executives with deep knowledge of the updated internal control framework released by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO). Hear first-hand how Pfizer, Raytheon and Dow have implemented the updated framework (which will supersede COSO’s original 1992 guidelines at the end of this year).
The document discusses three primary challenges facing telecom companies: customer retention, revenue assurance, and flawless execution. It notes that issues affecting these metrics exist across the entire customer lifecycle. The presentation will then introduce a unique solution that addresses all three challenges simultaneously.
A comprehensive assessment by S.Gee of a business along with a roadmap for improvements. Primary focus: Intellectual Capital Alignment to Business Strategy. Sample Template (Vol. 1 only)
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This document provides a summary of recent developments from COSO related to internal control and risk management. It discusses the history and mission of COSO, focusing on its work updating the internal control framework in 2013 and efforts to enhance enterprise risk management. The key points are:
1) COSO was formed in 1985 and its mission is to provide frameworks and guidance on internal control, enterprise risk management, and fraud deterrence.
2) It updated its internal control framework in 2013 to reflect changes in business environments and expanded its focus beyond financial reporting to also cover operations and compliance objectives.
3) COSO has also worked to enhance enterprise risk management through a series of thought papers addressing challenges with implementation and emerging risks.
The document discusses the characteristics of outcomes-based assessment. It outlines that outcomes-based assessment focuses on measuring what learners know and can do rather than content coverage. Key characteristics include integrating assessment with teaching, using varied assessment strategies like portfolios and performances, and focusing on mastery learning and criterion-referenced assessment. The purposes of assessment in an outcomes-based curriculum are to identify learner needs, track progress, diagnose problems, and judge the effectiveness of learning programs. Recording and reporting of assessment should describe learner progress, strengths, and weaknesses.
This document provides background information and a developmental assessment for an 8-year-old girl named Merlyn Alaba, who has been diagnosed with cerebral palsy. She was born healthy but her family noticed delays in walking and speaking at age 4. She attends a daycare center that provides special education. The assessment evaluates Merlyn's skills in various developmental domains and academic areas, finding she has learned many basic tasks but needs to improve her speech, fine motor skills, and other abilities. It is recommended that Merlyn continue her education with a classroom specially designed for children with disabilities.
Jane, age 9 years 7 months, was referred for a psychological evaluation by her mother who was concerned about Jane's reading fluency and comprehension difficulties. Jane appeared comfortable during assessments but struggled with reading aloud and decoding words. Test results and teacher reports indicated issues with reading. Jane's medical and family history were unremarkable, though she reported being bullied at school which upset her. The psychological evaluation was conducted to better understand Jane's challenges and provide recommendations to support her reading development.
Datapolis workbox how to cut workload and minimize risksDatapolis
This document discusses how to minimize risks when deploying workflows in SharePoint. It recommends using third-party workflow tools for most cases due to their increased functionality compared to out-of-the-box SharePoint workflows. When planning workflows, key challenges to address include functionality and user experience, permissions, data structure, and performance. Thorough planning with business users, understanding process maturity, and testing are important to address these challenges and ensure project success.
Recent Gartner and Capgemini studies predict only around 25% of data science projects are successful and only around 15% make it to full-scale production. Of these, many degrade in performance and produce disappointing results within months of implementation. How can focusing on the desired business outcomes and business use cases throughout a data science project help overcome the odds?
This document discusses robotics process automation (RPA), including its definition, leading vendors, best uses, planning process, lifecycle, timeframe, and benefits. RPA is defined as software that mimics human actions on a computer to interact with software systems at the user interface level. Leading RPA vendors include UiPath, Automation Anywhere, and Blue Prism. RPA is best used for repetitive tasks like data entry, rule-based decision making, and responding to data requests. Planning an RPA project takes around 3-4 weeks and includes process analysis, solution design, development, testing, and moving to production. The typical RPA lifecycle includes identify, plan/analyze, implement, test, and
This document provides an overview and introduction to robotic process automation (RPA). It defines RPA as using software "robots" to capture and interpret existing applications in order to automate transactions, manipulate data, and communicate between systems. The key benefits of RPA include cost savings, improved accuracy, scalability, and increased efficiency. The document discusses the RPA landscape and some of the major RPA tools on the market, including UiPath, Blue Prism, and Automation Anywhere.
MetaCAM Enterprise is a production management software that integrates engineering data, ERP data, and production operations on the shop floor. It aims to automate and streamline traditional manufacturing processes like part programming, file storage and retrieval, revision tracking, operator interfaces, scheduling, and data analysis. Key features include automatic part programming to reduce errors, powerful search capabilities for engineering files, real-time revision tracking, digital operator interfaces, automatic scheduling and data transfer to the shop floor, and analytics to identify bottlenecks and improve productivity. The software allows manufacturers to achieve lights-out production, reduce manual errors, and gain real-time visibility across the production lifecycle.
Are processes masquerading as projects hurting your businessBen Bradley
Not long ago, a significant amount of the work done within companies was simpler and a higher percentage of it tended to be fairly repetitive. Today, work featuring unstructured decision-making—knowledge work—accounts for 25% to 50% of all work, and this percentage is growing. The challenge is that while the work needed today has changed fairly radically, technology solutions had not adapted to the new environment—business process management (BPM) and project management solutions are really good at managing a predictable, repetitive world, but these solutions are not well-suited to business scenarios containing a lot of uncertainty and requiring unstructured decision-making in order to reach positive outcomes. Work-Relay is a powerful, easy-to-use platform for designing and deploying business processes of any level of complexity on the Salesforce.com platform. Includes the full spectrum of projects and processes, from fully automated to ad hoc.
This document discusses keyword-driven testing (KDT), a method for automating tests without programming. KDT allows manual testers and subject matter experts to design and execute automated test scripts. The document outlines the benefits of KDT, such as increased test coverage and faster return on investment. It also describes some challenges, such as maintenance issues. Overall, KDT is presented as the next generation of test automation that can empower users and drive organizational adoption of automated testing tools.
The document summarizes IEEE's workflow management system (WMS) which automates their publishing process from submission to publication. Some key points:
1) IEEE publishes over 1,100 conferences and 148 journals annually and needed a system to improve efficiency of their digital publishing process.
2) They selected a Documentum-based system from Flatirons Solutions and customized it over several years in iterative phases to meet their needs.
3) The WMS streamlines editorial and production workflows, provides real-time status updates for authors and editors, and enhances reporting which has increased content published with stable staffing.
4) Implementation challenges included lengthy development time, initial system instability, and comprehensive training needs but it
ANIn Chennai April 2024 |Beyond Big Bang: Technical Agility in Vintage Produc...AgileNetwork
Agile Network India - Chennai
Title: Beyond Big Bang: Technical Agility in Vintage Products by Sairam.V
Date: 27th April 2024
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SCUG.DK - Automation Strategy - April 2015Ronni Pedersen
This document discusses Dell's automation strategy and the benefits of automation. It outlines two primary types of automation at Dell: workload automation for batch processing and scheduling, and orchestration/automation workflows for tying tools together. Automation is recommended to reduce redundant tasks, allow teams to take on more exciting work as operational tasks are automated, and prevent teams from manually doing the same tasks for years. The document provides examples of how automation can help with work order management, access management, incident management, change management, provisioning, and more. It proposes moving operational tasks to a "Virtual Engineer" through automation over time. Metrics for measuring the impact of automation on incident resolution times and audit processing times are presented, showing potential time savings that
Patching is Your Friend in the New World Order of EPM and ERP CloudDatavail
The document discusses how patching has changed from an on-premise to cloud model. In the past, patching was difficult and caused issues, but in cloud applications patching now provides new functionality and standardization without the same testing and customization challenges. It recommends focusing on core testing of integrations and reports rather than the entire application when cloud patching is implemented. Examples are given of how clients in HR, finance, and manufacturing have benefited from new capabilities provided through cloud patching.
This document discusses how free and open-source tools can be used to improve metadata quality and workflow efficiency within a digital asset management (DAM) system. It provides examples of tools like Exiftool, ffmpeg, and ImageMagick that can be used for tasks like metadata extraction, validation, automation, and preflighting. Scripting is presented as a way to integrate these tools with most DAMs. Customizing metadata workflows in Adobe Creative Suite applications is also covered.
Microsoft Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) integrates governance, development, and operations from idea to retirement. Microsoft's ALM platform focuses on implementing process with minimal overhead, planning and managing projects, and aligning roles across the lifecycle. It allows reporting across project boundaries. The platform provides process templates, tools for planning and visibility, and ensures user comfort by allowing work in familiar tools. It aims to create happy teams and enable success throughout the application lifecycle.
This document provides a case study of Hexaware partnering with a large beer distributor and retailer in Ontario, Canada to upgrade their PeopleSoft HRMS system from version 8.9 to 9.1. The client needed to upgrade their system to support growth and automate HR and payroll processes. Hexaware used their SPEED methodology to divide the project into phases to minimize risk. They helped consolidate HR, payroll and benefits onto a unified platform, implemented PeopleSoft 9.1, and delivered improvements like increased productivity and faster decision-making.
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John Stover presented at a technology conference on SharePoint: the good, the bad, and the ugly. He began by explaining what SharePoint is and how it is commonly used today. He then discussed how to plan for SharePoint success by defining objectives, requirements, workloads, and technical environments. Stover also provided recommendations on training, support, and governance. He wrapped up by emphasizing the importance of testing and providing examples of how not to implement SharePoint and ensure failure.
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In this presentation you will...
1. Learn the formula for upgrade success with actionable items to work through right away
2. Understand the team needed to get the job done and how DataBank can step in to help
3. The importance of establishing a test environment and more
You can also watch the full webinar here: http://info.databankimx.com/Upgrade-Webinar-RCD.html
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While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
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This webinar will review:
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* Live demos with code snippets
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* Best practices and optimization strategies
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This session provides introduction to UiPath Communication Mining, importance and platform overview. You will acquire a good understand of the phases in Communication Mining as we go over the platform with you. Topics covered:
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• Phases in Communication Mining
• Demo on Platform overview
• Q/A
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Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 5. In this session, we will cover CI/CD with devops.
Topics covered:
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1. People Process Technology
Goals
• Increased Transparency – into workflow and agent performance.
• Workforce Management – insight and control of WFM
• Metrics Accuracy – consistent and accurate metrics that users trust
• Efficiency & Throughput – climb beyond the current plateau
• Volume Anticipation – capacity reserve for new business
• Workflow Evaluation – assessment against our industry experience
• Grow Business – attract additional business from internal clients
• Desktop Redesign – initiative to revamp the agent desktop
2. People Process Technology
Analysis
• Competent and Well-Intended People – from agents to management
• Excessive Cut-and-Paste – systems -> Notepad -> systems/ emails/
Excel
• Redundant Entry – systems, logging, spreadsheets, emails, QA
• Metrics Issues – distrust of stats = disputes and duplicate tracking.
• Multiple Lookups – external systems including assigned
rep, prefixes, product availability, and projects
• Manual Work Assignment – postmasters distribute work
• No Task Ranking – work not prioritized
• Workstation Inconsistency – no standard workstation image
• Siloed Organization – Specialized queues across similar skill sets
3. People Process Technology
Analysis
• Inconsistent Methodology – little sharing of templates, methods, and
best practices
• No Formal Training Programs – learn by shadowing
• Long Feedback Intervals – inter-day agent performance feedback
lacking
• Multiple Tracking Applications – redundant entry in 5+ systems
• Order Pre-check Lacking – no scrubbing of resolved or ineligible
work
• Cumbersome Systems – not conducive to common data entry tasks
• Email Over-reliance – used as defacto queuing and tracking tool
• Chat Not Optimized – chat in infancy at current 1:1 ratio.
5. People Process Technology
Solution Overview
Single Team Single Single View Single Single
• Cross Trained Queue • Reporting Portal Approach Vision
• Load • Scrubbed • Near Real-Time • One Desktop • Continuous
Balanced • Prioritized • Automated Image Measurement
• Filtered Logging • Standardized • Continuous
• Postmasters • All Geographies processes Improvement
Eliminated • Standardized
training
curriculum
6. People Process Technology
Our Solution
1. Implement Virtual Intelligent Robotics
• BOTS automatically work various common format lists without
error and with minimal human intervention.
• Automate common transaction types entirely
7. People Process Technology
Our Solution
2. Create Work Queue Application
• Extract work from multiple sources to single work queue
• Pre-process work queue to eliminate “touches” and ineligible work
• Filter incoming work by time-zones
• Rate and track work-in-queue for effort and type to predict
capacity and skill requirements (WFM)
• Eliminate postmaster role
• Eliminate manager review and approval cycles
8. People Process Technology
Our Solution
3. Create a Consistent Workstation Image
• Define single image across all desktops
• Secure and rapid development outside IT red tape
• Seek single approval and certification event for multiple upgrades
9. People Process Technology
Our Solution
4. Implement Data Extraction & Insertion Tools
• Open multiple apps from a single BAN, PTN or reference ID
• Eliminate scratchpad and agent cutting/ pasting
• Automate external lookups (Direct/Indirect; NLT (Dealer Code),; Device
Availability, Upgrade availability, SKU3, Impact/Prefix #,; Project List, etc.)
• Automate common disposition and closure types
• Text inserter for common emails, logs and responses
• Auto-extract and format logging content
• Implement cut/paste tools (multi-cut, multi-paste)
10. People Process Technology
Our Solution
5. Create a Multi-Use Database
• Use data extraction to create a transaction database
• Provide unified tracking for QA, performance, and WFM
• Eliminate BOM and Quick-Base applications
• Eliminate CYA tracking
• Eliminate redundant QA tracking
• Superior AHT statistics without additional effort
• Feed main queue for follow-up tracking
11. People Process Technology
Our Solution
6. Create New, or Leverage Existing Agent Portal
• Multi-Use Database view transaction lists and roll-up statistics to
increase agent confidence in reporting mechanisms
• Immediate and accurate feedback to agents into individual and
team performance.
• Build and reinforce team spirit and cohesiveness.
• Provide a forum for team-wide announcements, KB, discussion
forum, suggestion box, best practice, customer feedback, etc.
12. People Process Technology
Our Solution
7. Implement StopWatch
• Benchmark current utilization and usage patterns
• Utilization and transactional AHT for WFM fine tuning
• Implement Continuous Improvement Process for long-term
analysis and initiatives.
13. People Process Technology
Our Solution
8. Create Standardized Department-Wide Training Materials
• Rewrite flows to accommodate automation changes and
standardized methodologies
• Implement Decision Support System for complex workflows
• Create a training curriculum to cross-train all agents across
multiple queues.
14. People Process Technology
Our Solution
9. Deploy Center of Excellence Team
• Cross-training would occur in stages
• Metrics and logging would be provided by Multi-use DB
• Work would be taken from the common queue
• Relative performance readily compared against legacy team
• Rapid ramp-up and down including Work-at-Home option
• Possibility of “round the clock” processing for certain tasks and to
guarantee SLA’s
15. People Process Technology
Our Solution
10. Deploy Desktop and Methodology to Internal Teams
• Return to cross-train legacy teams
• Job satisfaction increases retention
• Portal feedback provides a sense of accomplishment
• IT need approve a single enhanced desktop image for redeployment
• Load balance across entire team
• Simplify hiring and movement of teams
• Reduce commute times for certain workers
17. People Process Technology
Our Workflow
Inbound Work 5 systems and email sources.
Ineligible
Sources
SLA Timer
Single
Dedicated Queue
Rep Fully
Automated
SLA Timer
Tool Reduced
Assisted Touch
Completed Work