Businesses- People Connected
Companies are organic. Like the human body, businesses are composed of hundreds of components working together to achieve a goal- Growth. While the body has the brain, the best piece of software ever, companies are not as fortunate. They require different technology to coordinate those components which we call people in order to function at their best. Mindful aviation companies are aware of this, and ensure they provide ways for people to connect and work efficiently.The application technologies they implement can greatly impact the way people perform, and provide even greater benefits when their workflows are connected and dependent on one another. These users often access features and capabilities associated with IETM / IETP software which greatly assist their ability to complete tasks.
Most users work within a structure that is segmented by departments, groups that perform, by and large, similar duties. Often, it is the spaces between these departments that require attention, when workflows transition from one group to another with different roles and types of tasks.In this space, between groups, opportunities can be found for user-centric information applications to truly stand out. What results when users with diverse skill sets collaborate as a team is called cross-functionality. Achieving it can be assisted through the use of software like NIVOMAX
Filling In The Gaps – Cross-Functionalities
Cross-functional teams occur when users possess different skills and use different capabilities in order to overcome challenges or complete more complex workflows as a working unit. The benefits are manyfold. They deepen the connection between departments and bring users closer together, increasing the perspective they have on each other’s jobs in a holistic manner. This results in newer, fresher perspectives and a more thorough decision making process through better communication and reduces the time it takes to implement projects.
IETM / IETP applications assist cross-functional teams with leveraging one of their greatest assets, communication and collaboration. Applications of this nature provide all of the tools contained within them to each and every user. Each member may regularly use features and capabilities within a technical publications application that is fairly foreign to other teammates. By bringing them closer together, they learn how their co-workers utilize them to best effect, adding to their holistic knowledge of the application suite, the project or task, and the member who is sharing the new skills with them.
Cross functional team efficiencies become apparent in the resulting optimized workflow results that emerge from this type of team collaboration. Yet they also render more leverageable benefits when these hybrid team members break off, to complete their individual tasks alone.
Leveraging Cross-Functional Skill Utilization Between Roles
Now armed with experience and a new perspective on their teammates’ workflows, users can better understand what their fellow workers and organization need them to do in order to perform in an optimized fashion. For example, users whose roles are found in the technical engineering departments use many of the IETM / IETP features that manipulate graphics and wire tracing. Knowing, for instance, that a key link in the next workflow is a teammate that processes safety and regulatory specifications from authority bodies, the user will access capabilities that permit text annotations to be saved in their wiring and technical diagrams , which assist their co-workers comprehension of the shared task. With new insight into their teammates’ role, it is far simpler for users to identify details, and use the features and capabilities of the IETM / IETP application to boost workflow efficiency.
Many of the challenges in today’s aviation industry can be handled more effectively by using this strategy. Supply chain managers,working in a cross-functional team with teammates who deal with Product Life Cycle (PLC) can synergize through utilization of IETM / IETP capabilities. PLC users can leverage the Applicability feature to identify tail numbers of aircrafts who may benefit from newer, more advanced maintenance and construction techniques. By sharing the data via annotations, they can inform their counterparts in Supply Chain Procurement, who in turn, will utilize features such as Parts Ordering to increase or change what parts are required to maintain stable, efficient and timely deliveries of their services.
The users that compose cross-functional teams now provide optimized processes through collaboration and a robust IETM / IETP technical publications solution. This process can become even more valuable when tasks or projects are successfully completed, and what remains is a vetted bank of enriched information.
Collecting , Formalizing and Implementing New Data
Data reuse and enrichment is highly associated with IETM / IETP applications, particularly when following an S1000D standard of data formation. Successfully collaborated solutions produced by a cross-functional team can now be formally authored. If the organization has access to users who author a new procedure, the new data can be built and, if their IETM / IETP can display content from any predefined source, like NIVOMAX, it can be shared almost immediately with the entire organization, assisting all users. If these solutions are required to be vetted at an administrative levels, displaying the aggregated data, annotated by the cross- functional team members, can easily be display by leveraging an IETM / IETPs capabilities to reconfigure the UI, displaying multiple content tabs simultaneously, making presentation far more effective. If the organization’s application suite features a Builder component, they can add this effective new content to any libraries they wish, and maintain their relevance by editing, releasing newer versions as they require
Crossing Over To IETM / IETP Cross- Functionality
The limit of what can be done with the right people, organizational structure and optimized applications is far reaching. IETM / IETP applications have too many features and capabilities to mention them all. In one way or another, a strategy can be determined to overcome a healthy part of the challenges in today’s aviation markets. Well organized user teams, armed with applications that allow them to maximize efforts and produce highly valuable task and project work tactics , can be invaluable to any stakeholder facing issues such as labor shortage, procurement difficulties, or regulatory standards compliance. Combining human assets with technology seems to be the way up.
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