High-Performance Workplace (HPW), How Do We Achieve It?

HPW: High-Performance-Workplace solutions offered by Office SharePoint 2007 Server can improve and transform the way employees interact and work together. To ensure optimal success, one need to include mobile/wireless and collaboration technologies, business processes, and all work / environments related components.

HPW is a physical or a virtual environment that makes workers effective in supporting business goals and providing value. HPW is not all about technology; it fosters high individual, workgroup, and corporate performance. Moreover, it includes support for factors that affect or enhance an employee’s ability to add business value, including process, physical environment, and technology.

To truly become a HPW, information technology organizations must reexamine their focus on merely a handful of technological and collaborative tools. (MOSS 2007) Office SharePoint 2007 Server caters to all these features that make the organization a HPW. MOSS 2007 Server incorporates multiple processes and technologies—wireless, mobile, and other forms of collaboration including e-mail and calendaring—to maximize workers’ full potential, which in turn add to the bottom line of the organization.

It is expected that using MOSS 2007 will enable employees to increase efficiencies and improve productivity, resulting in more effective contribution to the organization by
• Information sharing
• Performing research
• Managing content
• Innovation by employee empowerment
• Knowledge sharing
All these, in turn, result in
• Agility—ability to sense or create environmental changes and respond efficiently and effectively. Key enablers of agility are awareness, flexibility, adaptability, and productivity
• Cost savings
• Process efficiencies
• Possible business process changes
• Possible common infrastructure, with diminished complexity

Moreover, MOSS 2007 helps fulfill the business needs of internal customers and their vendors (if any!) by creating a HPW by setting up, for example, virtual work sharing, document control management, and mobile capabilities.

Strategy benefits to meet business goals
By using Office SharePoint 2007 Server, we:
• Provide a means to improve the performance and quality of enterprise-wide communication
• Provide technical tools to improve business processes
• Provide a means to locate and share corporate knowledge
• Improve efficiency by enabling employees to complete tasks anytime from anywhere
• Create the ability of the organization to sense environmental change and respond efficiently and effectively to creating agile enterprise:
        - Human latency reduction (time it takes people to respond to events)
        - Faster response time from a technological perspective
        - More accurate interactions
        - Better social context for communications

Corporate Vision and Mission: Business and IT Alignment

This HPW strategy will be aligned with the following:
• The organization’s mission
• The organization’s corporate strategic plan, corporate goals, and business priorities
• The vision and principles of the information services division
• Information technology plan
• Last but not the least, the web core team strategy

Conclusion
According to Gartner’s research, although the HPW is in its infancy, it is crucial to the future success of all businesses. Mobile, wireless, collaboration, and communication technologies have been included in strategic plans within many information technology organizations, often times minimizing or dismissing the impact of people and processes on their business. As the workplace continues to evolve into a more complex, decentralized enterprise, information technology must consider all aspects of the business equations, including technological tools, people, and processes.

There are many collaboration and communication tools currently available in the marketplace. Most, however, are not used in tandem and are not used creatively. They are in alignment neither with people and processes nor with the business goals and values.

Office SharePoint 2007 Server helps incorporate all these multiple processes and technologies, thereby maximizing workers’ full potential and, in turn, adding to the bottom line of the organization.

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