Information worker jhb april 2012

About me…

• Make every second count

• Love the people you do it for

• Love what you do

• Your values in life needs to equal your values in business

• There are no problems / issues, only challenges

THE CHALLENGE

THE BATTLE

AND WHY?

BUSINESS Efficiency Effectiveness

Doing things right • Saving time • Saving money • Saving effort

Measure speed & cost Example: Getting someone in here right away is more important than getting the right person later

Doing the right things • Getting the job done

Measure quality Hiring the right person is more important than hiring someone right away

IT

It’s easier to teach a business user the necessary IT skill to ‘build’ a solution than to teach an IT person the business skill to do so… Their focus is different – therefore the application of their skill will be different.

THE STATEMENT

EMPOWER YOUR USERS!!

THE SOLUTION

Changing the ‘face’ of IT and Business

TIMES ARE CHANGING

HOW?

•Ask the users what they want - feedback •Build Solutions that add value •Build Solutions that save time •Build Solutions that empower users

•Build User Interfaces that creates “happy environments” •Build User Interfaces that simplify

navigation •Build User Interfaces that delivers a

message •Build User Interfaces that deal with

training and induction as well

Infrastructure > Good server

Strong foundation

DRP / Backups

Input > utilizing the

system to it’s full potential

Output > Automatic

Reporting / Dashboards /

Graphical User Interfaces

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1st Example: Wireframe > Information Worker Site

HOW DID I DO THAT?

WIREFRAMES (THE EASY / CHEAP WAY)

1. TAKE SHAPSHOTS OF SITE 2. PASTE IN POWERPOINT 3. REMEMBER RESOLUTION

– divide by 37.80 to get cm’s 4. ADD HOTSPOTS (HYPERLINKS) 5. PLAY

ADVANTAGE: Present ideas to business without actually building something / wasting money.

2nd Example: Live

Demonstration > SharePoint and

SharePoint Designer

REMEMBER:

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