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Project Management Helps You
Retain Your Most Valuable Assets
Knowledge
Management is about helping people communicate and share
information. People are the experts. They need a place --
both physical and virtual -- that fosters collaboration and
learning.
As-One knowledge management function makes capturing,
categorizing and circulation of knowledge based artifacts
easy. Your organization can capture and circulate best
practices, lessons learned, process standards and project
documentation. The built-in workflow allows organization
officials to review and approve user-submitted best
practices and process changes prior to circulation. Project
team members can specify which categories of information
they wish to see and hence knowledge-based help is available
anytime at the click of a mouse. Through categorization, the
knowledge is provided to the user, in-context, based the
user's role, project type, project phase, and areas of
interest. As-One provides full-text search on all
organizational information using a powerful search engine.
What As-One addresses in the market place:
Most frequently, knowledge is shared blindly within
organizations. Knowledge repositories are available, but the
needed information is still quite difficult to find.
Knowledge is much more useful when shared in-context. True
knowledge management is about capturing, categorizing and
circulating information based on specified attributes and
roles.
With the lack of proper knowledge management, organizations
lack the information infrastructure to allow easy capture of
valuable information without a central and logical method of
capturing and communicating information, valuable knowledge
is lost. These challenges make it difficult for
organizations to create a 'learning' organization. With the
benefit of collaborating information in-context, we are able
to understand and use the information and to apply it
successfully.
As-One makes knowledge management more powerful by
integrating it with the other three cornerstones for
success: Project Management; Team Collaboration and Process
Improvement. Knowledge can be centrally captured,
categorized and circulated while project members are
performing everyday project events. Geographically dispersed
groups can share knowledge and collaborate through one
medium, a Web browser. Process improvement and knowledge
management are integrated in three layers:
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As-One Organizational layer
- The organization defines and approves the standard
processes and best practices prior to circulation.
Process assets can be continuously updated and easily
circulated. |
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As-One Project layer - The
project defines the framework for gaining new knowledge.
The project's standard processes can be defined and
tailored from the organizational standards. Projects can
re-use information and successes from other projects.
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As-One Team member layer -
Productivity would significantly improve if
organizations provide the infrastructure and tools to
enable project teams to:
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Easily extract rich expertise from
talented, geographically dispersed employees.
Utilize a virtual space where
worldwide employees can brainstorm, learn and manage
projects together.
Be empowered to create and
maintain knowledge without developing 'home grown'
applications or re-configuring the network
infrastructure.
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As-One, Capturing is made easy
- Our knowledge library allows capturing of
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Best Practices, Process
Standards, Lessons Learned and Project
Documentation.
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As-One, Categorization is built
in - Organizations can categorize information by:
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Project Type, Project Phase ,Labor Category and Organizational Defined
Attributes. |
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As-One, Knowledge is even more
powerful - when captured and made available to project
team members during the execution of everyday project
events. |
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As-One, Team members can specify
which categories of information they wish to see.
Through workflow, organizational officials can review
and approve best practices and process updates prior to
circulation. |
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As-One, Circulation is
automatic - Knowledge-based help is available at the
click of a mouse. Knowledge is provided to the team
member in-context based on the user's project types, the
project's phase, the user's role and the user's
specified categories. Fulcrum's full-text search engine
is also integrated to maximize re-use and searching of
information. |
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As-One includes a built-in
discussion group function automatically capturing
the thread of discussions and is perfect for remote
collaboration and knowledge sharing on critical issues. |
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