Workflow & Groupware Stratégies

Group technologies (Document Management, Workflow, Groupware, Work Management, and Knowledge Management) bring the tools able to support the challenging changes management programs that an ever more and more competing economy mandates.

	Increased quality of service: reduced delay, dependability, accuracy, predictability
	Top level productivity through information at fingertip, and on line collective productivity tools.
	Costs mastering through detailed costs measurements and analysis per processes.

W&GS, group technologies at work for enterprise benefits

W&GS provides services according to the following guidelines:

	establish tailored strategies in order to use group technologies in the best possible way inside each enterprise for maximizing: innovation, quality of services and productivity ;
	conduct analysis to detect most short term profitable opportunities ;
	define a three year project plan for deployment and costs/benefits measurements ;
	monitor progresses of pilots and line  projects, by measuring their distance to targeted goals and proposing necessary adjustments.

W&GS insists on quick identification of most probable targets, on precise analysis of costs and benefits before any decision, on the seriousness of the  infrastructure (network, servers), and on short pilot project (some month at most) for validation of hypothesis.

W&GS considers each enterprise as unique, whose identity and know how must be enforced. W&GS action follows a precise framework including:

	a sharp training of upper management to limits and benefits of group technologies for the enterprise in the context of their own strategies,
	assistance to managers that must remain in control  of their application decisions, it is only though their clear cooperation that applications really useful for the enterprise will be detected,
	a special stress on short term choices that, because they enable rapid experimentation and results measurements, offer best chances of clear success.

W&GS, although mainly targeted at users assistance, offers its know-how to vendors in the areas of Document Management, Workflow, Groupware, Work Management, and Knowledge Management in directions where its experiences are valuable.

	product offering assessment,
	requirements analysis,
	qualification of information related to senior consultant,
	training of sales forces.

W&GS was created by  Martin Ader, one of the pioneers of group techniques with 12 years or research and development experience in the Computer Supported Cooperative Work arena at Bull and Wang.   He has an in depth experience of enterprise wide application deployment with 15 years devoted to large deployment projects combining  database, transaction processing and distributed systems in Banks, Insurance's, Manufacturing and Government organizations.