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Manage Time: Know who/what does what to whom/what by where and when. Design a performance based website by using this format. | | does what | Who | What | Whom | What | Where | When | Action #1 | | | | | | | | Action #2 | | | | | | | | Action #3 | | | | | | |
An organization consists of people, procedures, and programming. Every organization must manage time, costs, and the quality of actions performed for their customers. It operates to perform a shared purpose. It operates within some type of larger situation. It depends on this situation for support and resources. Within this larger system, it exists, competes, and cooperates. It co-exists with other organizations. And, at the same time, it competes for a viable niche to pursue it's own interests.
As in nature, it has a relationship within and between other systems. It cooperates to compete. And, it competes to cooperate. It can be weak or powerful. Critics see the power of an orgranization as able to dominate the interests of our society. Optimists expect the need for interdependent relationships to set limits. Under all options, political actions involve organizations and time.
The passing of time is symbolized by calendars. Calendars define when our data is due. But, our data is distributed into many different data bases. Thus, the data may be hard to pull together.
'Calendar sharing' may sound like a trivial technique for solving our problems.
But, within the context of chaos in our community (virtual and real), we need to connect the people in our lives to times and places of mutual interest. New tools give our organizations and us better ways to manage our complex systems.
40% of our work requires us to schedule time, costs, and the quality of our actions. Thus, we meet to solve our problems, plan our actions, and train our people. Our work requires us to meet. It connects us (within six degrees) to the highest-priced people in our organization and community.
Since the nature of the tools required to do our work have changed, the nature of our actions has changed. Personal productivity applications now matter more than the big programming applications of our organizations. Big organizations use things like 'enterprise resource planning systems' software.
Our personal schedules include the ablity to reach out and influence our family, friends, and our community in a more useful manner. Software programs help us organize our lives and give us more time and money to organize our problem solving with others.
Microsoft, Google, IBM and others (who provide the software tools to share calendars) will continue to adapt their tools to help each of us manage our personal time, money, and quality of actions.
Software used to organize our organizations will cause us to rethink what we do with information. Work means we pull together people from different organizations and at different times.
E-mail and phones are no longer efficient ways to organize our time, money, and actions. The pressure is to view the personal calendars of important administrators on a public website.
The big difference between our new personal information managers and those of the past is the ability to share our calendar with others.
PCs broke down organizational information walls and gave us greater access to data. Organizations are now forced to embrace sweeping change again. The pressing changes will create consternation and more effective communication. The solutions include the ability to synchronize our mobile display with our on-line calendar. |
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