One of the main purposes of this blog, from my point of view, is to help weave together diverse strands of technology into a robust rope that we can all use to pull ourselves up to a higher level of performance.
Am I getting too metaphorical? Here is a specific example:
Steve Dinning's development group, the
A-Team, has created an application called
Train Track that the Personnel division uses to manage employee training records for required courseware like Harassment Prevention training. This achievement led Personnel to request an enhancement: an online form that would enable users to self-enroll in these classes. So far so good: this points towards a valuable collaboration between the A-Team and
Mike Dickson's
iTeam, which is responsible for
iSITE development.
But then a third player arrived on the scene: yesterday I became aware that the hospital is interested in contracting with an online provider of training programs for the nursing staff. Furthermore, their preferred product,
MC Strategies, includes an online registration system that might be extended to include enrollment in other courses, such as the Personnel offerings.
I only learned of this new product by chance, but this knowledge could enable us to combine these two separate initiatives to save both time and effort and potentially provide a better outcome for everyone -- not only Nursing and Personnel, but all of CCHS.
The point is:
if we can effectively share our disparate work efforts on this blog, we may be able to identify additional opportunities for synergy.
Stay tuned for another post on IS training initiatives...
