Increasing Productivity
Day 1: Suffering
How fast do you want to get new company team members up and running? If you can remember the experience of the first several days at a new job, you'll remember how difficult it is to find the cafeteria, find the supply closet, and configure your application and desktop settings so you can be immediately productive. This part of the new-user experience shouldn't be underestimated. Users can spend days, weeks, or even years in a sub-optimal state, until an application expert helps them configure their application properly.
Ongoing Pain: What kind of users do you have?
After the pain of the new hire, organizations need to endure pain from other end-user types. There are many kinds of users in most organizations.
Can you spot your two or three biggest offenders in this list?
- Robin is hesitant of configuring his applications because he's afraid of a repermand. Because of this, he remains unproductive until IT can manually configure his applications.
- Jane is afraid of configuring their applications because of the fear of possibly "breaking something." Jane knows what happens if you click the wrong thing. Oops, down for a day. Jane, like Fred, will just wait for help. Possibly forever.
- Jake thinks he knows how to configure his desktop applications. But just four clicks later, and he's made enough configuration issues to bring his application down until IT can be called in to fix it.
- Mike just cannot stop playing and tweaking with his desktop application settings. Tweaking his applications is like a hobby while awaiting the next phone call. His desktop and application settings are unlike anyone else's in the whole company. When IT needs to manage his desktop, no one really knows what might break because of all the configuration changes.
- Carly is the "know it all" who, unfortunately, doesn't. Carly is the wost offender of all, because she not only mis-configures her machine, but then walks around to other machines in the department and mis-configures those.
Sound familiar?
Only application experts should be configuring the end-users' applications. And that's you; not them.
With PolicyPak, these configuration issues go away. That's because with PolicyPak, you're pre-configuring the applications settings for your users. And even if they do change the settings, those settings are placed back -- and back again -- no matter how often a user tries to change them.
Increasing Productivity Next Steps
Take control of your user's productivity. Don't leave it up to them to decide how to configure your corporate applications. Ensure that new users and existing users become immediately productive, and stay immediately productive.
Get cost-effective, simple, and manageable solutions to configure your applications today. For more information on our PolicyPak versions, click here.
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