HR management – the key to success

Experiment failed – or not?

If you look at the history of personnel management, until 1930 human beings were primarily regarded as machines and a worker was led accordingly. Only the so-called lighting experiment drew attention to the fact, that the employee is a socially active being with his own interests. The main objective of the experiment was originally to find out, how the lighting of a room affects the working methods of the employees. By the way, an enormously important insight was gained. The working groups that were told, that they were part of an experiment, worked more intensively than those, who were not informed. Conclusion: Paying attention to the employee and making his importance for something clear, is the most important factor for increasing employee satisfaction and thus also productivity.

HR management – what is the problem?

The sentence “If Siemens knew what Siemens knows” reveals the difficulty of HR management. Every single employee brings knowledge and experience. It is the company’s most important resource. Promoting it and exploiting its potential should be at the top of the agenda. But the larger the company, the more difficult it becomes to deploy and support each individual optimally. Long communication channels and inadequate structures often prevent the ideal use of skills and abilities. Even with the support of certain software, limits often quickly become apparent. Especially in the area of HR management, every company works with highly individual processes and often does not have enough possibilities for adaptation with standard software.

What is the solution?

The success of your company depends on the skills of your employees. And what their goals are. For the digital future, they need completely new skills and abilities. Strategic personnel development and corresponding management methods are crucial to success. How do you make your goals the goals of your employees? And how do you continuously develop your employees?

Developing employees means supporting and challenging them. Qualified personnel development ensures the economic success of your company. With the Talent Manager you can optimally deploy your employees and promote their development. The perfect basis for modern human resource management.
The Talent Manager is the perfect application to solve the challenges of modern HR management. Simple and company-wide usable, it raises personnel development and management to a new level.

Success through project control

Project control means planning, monitoring and controlling

The project control consists of three main steps. Planning, monitoring and controlling. But the first step already hides a dilemma. By definition, planning is the mental anticipation of future action. But how come that plans are not respected? How often has BER Airport CEO professor Engelbert Lütke Dalkdrup been asked this question? How can a construction project such as Willy-Brandt-Airport in Berlin be miscalculated by five billion euros and delayed by almost ten years? Planning is more than the definition in the textbooks. Planning is also justification for the costs, time and resources needed for a project. Planning thus becomes the basis of the external image vis-à-vis the stakeholders. No wonder, then, that the interests of the stakeholders are taken into account in the project management and the feasibility of the project is thereby neglected in some places. The effects are evident every day in failed construction projects, delayed opening dates or multiplication of the planned budget.

Project control as a management task

Target-oriented project management is essential for the success of a company. The competition is merciless. Delays or misplaced financing plans can mean the end for a company. This makes project management a management task and must be aligned with the company’s strategy. Companies need to be flexible in this ever-changing market. That is easier said than done. How do you manage it anyway?

Project control made easy

A valuable help is the appropriate software support. These are often missing especially in smaller projects. Frequently, however, common project management tools are too extensive and overwhelm the users. Not everyone who is responsible for a project has a project manager training, let alone the time to deal with escalating tools. With the Project Reporter from Business App, projects can be structured, monitored and controlled simply and clearly.

Manage projects successfully with the Project Reporter

The focus is on concentrating on the essentials and easy coordination with colleagues and supervisors. For each project, the topic, contents, problems, solution options and decisions can be recorded. In addition, tasks, conversations, notes, notifications and related documents can be created. Thus, the responsibility is clearly regulated and the work processes are clearly structured. The automatically generated protocol shows what was done last.

Here you can find more information about project control with the Project Reporter

Less is more – better work in less time

The lever to increase productivity

Productivity is a central approach to ensure and improve the competitiveness of a company in the long term. It is becoming more and more important to save costs and to generate fast implementation of market requirements. Through higher productivity, employees want to be able to leave work early, have less time pressure or a steeper career path. The key to productivity lies in saving time. The faster one task is completed, the more time is left for the next one. An increase in this factor almost inevitably leads to higher profits. For this reason, increasing productivity is a central task of every company management and requires great attention. However, this is more difficult to implement than expected.

The productivity killers

A common problem in increasing productivity is that more and more people find it difficult to set priorities correctly. Phone calls, meetings and constantly new e-mails: it is not easy to concentrate on all these tasks without losing sight of the essential to-do list. This is because developers in particular often struggle with the problem that they overestimate their assessment of the complexity of a feature and spend significantly more time on it than originally expected. Companies and employees alike suffer from these productivity killers. So how can an increase in productivity lead to a reduction in working hours?

Increased productivity with the right tool

An important driving force for increasing productivity is the low code platform “Business App”. It is the optimal support on the way to more productivity. The modular system allows the user a new way to work creatively and individually without having to write code (= low code principle). The simple organization of business processes makes it possible to work faster and more efficiently by hiding or postponing distractions or outsourcing work completely. In this way, potential can be recognized immediately, resources can be managed more efficiently and deadlines can be met even during peak periods. In addition, the technical support leads to more transparency in company management, which in turn has a positive effect on employee productivity. This leads to an improvement of the working atmosphere and ultimately to motivated employees and satisfied customers.

Why software developers are so rare:

“Many companies have great problems finding IT specialists.”

As in every year, Bitkom determined the number of missing IT professionals last autumn. The result: 38,000 vacancies are currently vacant, 10,000 more than a year earlier.

Many are freelancers out of conviction

The increasing demand for IT experts is also having an impact on their earning potential. According to one study, the salaries of specialists and executives rose by 4.5 percent last year. With a gross annual salary of around 60,000 euros, IT employees are doing well in industry comparison. Even energy suppliers or in vehicle manufacturing, which are generally regarded as very well-paid industries, earn less.

But a comparatively good salary is not enough for many IT professionals. More and more of them are exchanging the security of the employee’s existence for the unboundness of a freelancer. There are up to 80,000 freelancers in Germany. Their numbers are increasing continuously, but not disproportionately compared to employed IT specialists. Most freelancers work freelance because they appreciate the freedoms they have as their own boss – but not because they have no choice.

Developers on average 44 years old

Nevertheless, many freelancers initially work in a permanent position and only become self-employed once they have gained sufficient professional experience and contacts in the industry. Software developers are particularly in demand. Their average age is astonishingly high: according to a Gulp evaluation, they are 44 years old and have 20 years of professional experience.

Developer shortage? No problem with Business App!

To create a business application with Business App, you don’t need a large team of software developers. Depending on your business application requirements, a configurator and an administrator are enough to create and maintain a workable application.
If you want your own design, it makes sense to consult your web designer or graphic designer, so that he can make adjustments with CSS and HTML, for example. A programmer is only necessary if the application is to be extended with program code due to special needs.

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Future-oriented Business Applications for all Business Sectors:

All departments deal indirectly or directly with these questions. Futhermore each industry has individual needs and tasks.

For example:

Industry & Manufacturing

• Device and machine management
• Overview of maintenance, maintenance and disposition of machines or similar
• Reports for analyzes and reports

Real Estate

• Creation and management of new and existing objects
• Correspondence with tenants, buyers, owners
• Damage management

Services

• Event organization and participant management
• Advice and support
• Building management

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In order to be able to implement all these tasks and processes, one of the most decisive pillars of operating success is business software, which supports the company and employees in all processes. But often it is not just a system that must be used in everyday work. Often, it is a chain of many systems and applications that need to work in parallel and smoothly.

Due to ever-growing technologies and the increasing demands of the market, a developed and future-oriented business software is essential as a stable support.

How do I make Software fast and easy for the future?

Easy to use with Business App: thanks to the application designer with an integrated framework, you can adapt your system to the needs of the market and your customers.

Regardless of whether trade, mechanical engineering or pharmacy – Business App creates the freedom to incorporate branch-specific requirements and cover them.

In order to link all necessary applications with the business software, various interfaces to other necessary systems can be set up quickly and easily. For this purpose, multilingualism allows e.g. At international locations, to provide employees with all necessary information in the desired language.

 
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