Today’s business environment demands quality communication and collaboration between people, departments, customers, business partners whether they be next door or across the globe. Helping teams collaborate has never been more important. Maintaining profitability and getting to market faster means organizations must be able to effectively to share, manage and retrieve critical business data and business practices with others in the organization.
Built on LMR Solutions’ knowledge of collaboration management best practices, tool experience, and proven methodology from hundreds of EPM deployments, SMART EPM utilizes a process-driven approach unlocking the power of Microsoft Office Systems. Not only does SMART EPM help executives monitor initiatives and synchronize them with overall business strategies, it makes it easier for project managers and team members alike to participate in the process, ensuring work is completed on time and under-budget. SMART EPM for Collaboration Management is comprised of these main components: Work Status, Time Management, Document Management, Change Management, and Issue and Risk Management, Team Foundation Services Integration.
For project managers who manage dozens to hundreds of projects in various stages of completion, keeping track of potential, current and future projects requires multitasking in almost supernatural proportions. With SMART EPM for Collaboration managers can focus more on productive work instead of unnecessary meetings, time consuming work status reporting and email messaging. Online meetings and conferences bring teams closer regardless of distance. Essential to saving time is the ability to set automatic work status entering and email notifications to team members regarding tasks assigned and modifications to tasks, key documents and data sets. SMART EPM for Collaboration Management gives you instant global access to your business. From anywhere in the world, partners can access business teams and data through a web browser.
Businesses need to understand how and where their resources spend most of their time. This information influences the decision making process for recruiting, training and work prioritization strategies. Businesses today have disparate systems that track time for various work activities at different levels. Organizations are impacted by lost productivity in tracking time in these various systems. In other cases some organizations risk being out of compliance and losing large government contracts.
SMART EPM for Collaboration delivers the tools and processes you need to overcome the challenges of time collection and focus on improving productivity and execution. Businesses can consistently track where resources spend their time, reduce administrative overhead costs and ensure compliance with employment laws. Time Management can be streamlined to reduce the amount of effort to input employee time worked and also to reduce inaccuracies and burdensome manual reconciliations. The integrated workflow-based system centralizes and automates the tracking of billable work and project status letting you create and approve invoices quickly, thereby reducing the billing cycle and improving cash flow.
Data captured in Time Management can be easily transferred without data re-entry to billing and financial systems for project accounting, billing and other financial reporting activities. Rollup to other management tools means that high-level decisions and forecasting are based on the most current and actual data available.
While email has revolutionized communication in the workplace and increased the participation and productivity of many people from disparate locations, email alone cannot scale to meet the demands of an information-dependent world. Organizations rely heavily on email and familiar applications like Microsoft Word to share and manage documents. With the growth of information, businesses must be able to effectively store, manage and retrieve documents and artifacts with familiar applications integrated with current toolsets used by the organization.
The SMART EPM provides a document management module the delivers a centralized repository for documents and artifacts. All members of the organization regardless of location can easily retrieve and collaborate on documents through a web browser. The SMART EPM document management module enables greater collaboration, more control over content, less dependency on mailbox folders and network shares and greater scalability for any size company regardless of location.
Changes can throw a monkey wrench into the smoothest operations. Without a collaborative change management approach, changes can cause all kinds of problems from confusion, production disruptions, compliance violations, to unforeseen schedule “collisions.” Businesses under pressure to meet compressed time schedules and complex compliance requirements are vulnerable to changes at any stage of a project or product lifecycle. SMART EPM for Collaboration Management automates change management and consolidates change requests into a single system of record and audit trail with an efficient process for consistently driving all changes from initial request through to deployment.
The purpose of risk and issue management is to reduce the negative effect on the project. In order to reduce impact, organizations must be able to quickly identify, communicate and assign action to resolve and track resolution. It is important that there is clear direction and communication about who knows the issue and its status, what is the resolution, who owns the responsibility of formally identifying, communicating, monitoring and resolving project issues. The issue process puts a process in place for quantifying and reporting issues within the project. SMART EPM for Collaboration Management enables Project teams to track and control the resolution of issues during the Project Lifecycle.
Contact Us to learn more about SMART EPM for CollaborationIn today's competitive marketplace, let SMART EPM for Collaboration helps you succeed. Centralize, simplify, and automate the communication of business information to improve the effectiveness of your operations.
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