Is your business going round in circles? E-volve don’t Revolve
14 February 2003
Internet technology has also moved on significantly in the past two years but according to recent research by Millward Brown Ulster, 75% of Northern Ireland firms do not have e-business or online strategies in place. Maybe that's because we as providers have spent too long using the clichéd dot.com language and should place more emphasis on the actual business benefits.
Applications...Software...E-business??
When you ponder these words what exactly comes to mind? Do you immediately switch off because you 'don't know anything about computers' or have you already decided that all this new technology isn't necessary for the growth and/or survival of your business? If we get back to the core principles and capabilities of what the internet can do for businesses today then the following benefits should come to mind:
- Productivity improvement
- Reduced administrative costs
- Instant Data
- Enhanced Management Capabilities
- Improved Communication
Let's look at one illustration where internet technology can be implemented within your business - the HR and training function. Investing in people and personnel development now features strongly within business plans and corporate strategies acting as major contributors to staff retention, increased morale and productivity.
Processing training requests, providing employees with course availability specific to their interests, sending evaluation forms - these are all time consuming activities which HR departments face from day to day. Wouldn't it be great if the HR system could take care of all of this without any intervention!
Throughout Ireland Biznet is helping clients to optimise business processes by identifying and customizing the right solution to meet their individual needs. We have built a web-based solution to assist companies with the allocation, management and administration of training in the contemporary workplace, aptly named D-Velop.
D-Velop has been designed to streamline your training function, providing a system which can be communicated easily to all staff. It enables management to gain a general overview of training provision and costs or alternatively provides them with a detailed report. D-Velop allows different levels of security and access rights to be set-up for individual employees - depending on their role and function within the company - with options of read or edit authorisation. For example, Employee Access allows employees to view or to have update rights on their personal profile only. Whereas the highest level of access would enable a Senior Manager to view and/or update all records within the company.
Employees each have a profile on the site, which includes their qualifications and desired career path. D-Velop provides a wide range of features including:
Database of courses with keyword search facility
E-mailed notification of courses that arise to suit their needs
E-mail notification of the date, time, location
Feedback and Evaluation forums
Company Bulletin
Resources Library
Managers and Training Administrators can access the system at a higher level providing them with the following:
E-mail notification of course requests and availability
Database of courses with keyword search facility
Employee by employee and overall training expenditure breakdowns (timescale specific i.e. spent on Joe Bloggs from 22/7/01 to 22/7/02)
Profile and Skills matrix for each member of staff
Breakdowns of staff by skill set
Feedback and Evaluation forms of courses taken automatically generated
Charting capability allowing visual illustrations of Costs, Skills etc.
Admin access to the training course database can also be granted to 3rd party training organisations to enable ease of update.
Internal recruitment tool
There are few business disciplines left untouched by the continuing revolution/evolution of the Internet. To meet the needs of our customers we at Biznet are also having to e-volve to provide industry specific online systems for businesses that wish to use the internet for maximum commercial gain.
Should you wish to receive further information or a free consultancy on how Biznet's D-Velop could benefit your business please contact us on (028) 9044 7800