With increase in number of projects, resources, costs and
slipping deadlines, it has become important for companies to bring in
automation into the system. A trend is seen that companies adopted Project
Management tool to increase the efficiency and meet the deadlines.
It is important for the management to evaluate
and understand the return on investment before adopting a product and harness
its benefits. Management adopt various application to address pain areas in
their business process, but it have been observed that one of the common
bottleneck in increase in efficiency of Project Managers is number of discrete
& stand alone applications and the team end up managing Data and Reports
from ‘n’ number of tools. That is why, companies are moving toward adopting an integrated
approach and adopt an integrated Project Management Application.
Monika, you also need to look at a larger perspective. While in I agree with the integrated solution approach, but ultimately it all depends upon clear identification of managements needs and ways to address that with minimal efforts. I have ample examples of companies who deployed integrated project management tools but still end up just using it as Timesheet system.
ReplyDeleteI agree to you Sumit to an extent, the reason most of the companies end up using limited modules of the Integrated Project management tools is failure of change management in the company, employees need to be trained and educated with the value they can get from using the tool. They use timesheet the most as its their day to day task and they are able to see value of using it, similarly there need to be a corporate mandate to use the application to the whole and the project managers need to be trained well on the system.
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