He's also creating a wireless component to that tool which will allow managers to enter such data directly into the network, without going through their desktop PCs. But he still needs to perform rigorous testing before it's finished. When it comes to managing the department intranet, Zapf and his team are faced with the same concerns as any other company. Integrating his efforts with those of other departments is a recurring challenge. At the moment, he's working with Wurz to create a central login system, so employees can log in once to see data from a variety of departments.
Collaboration is also central to improving the overall site.
Advocate recently moved its online training courses to an outside vendor. HR and other departments worked together to ensure that the courses, hosted remotely, would work for every employee. The knowledge management problem he faces is that the analytic reports his team recently began generating for the managers may be too popular. The reports, which analyze such company-wide figures as employee turnover and retention, have already begun spawning requests for other, similar reports. We need either more resources or you can only give us so many data analysis projects per year.