The Challenge
Our client understood the power of meritocracy, and how it could drive significant change in the organization. The had a robust PMO system in place for capturing employee feedback, but lacked a systematic workflow for evaluating, approving and prioritizing new ideas.
Pain Points
A lack of clarity on the feedback process led to problems in transparency following the initial PMO roll-out. Instead of feeling heard and understood, leaders felt an even greater disconnect with corporate IT initiatives.
SOLUTION OVERVIEW:
Many organizations will say “our employees are our biggest asset” but few are successful at realizing the fullest potential of a workforce. One area often overlooked is failing to mine the collective wisdom for improvement opportunities both in the company’s operations, and in the wider marketplace.
Our Solution
The Bright Ideas Workflow provided an enterprise- wide system for capturing, evaluating, prioritizing and tracking progress of employee-sponsored initiatives. The “Idea Queue” was fed from multiple department-level SharePoint pages and provided a level of transparency that eliminated much of the culture-killing friction between operational areas requesting new functionality, and the leadership team setting the priorities.
Timeline
2 months for initial workflow. Subsequent implementations are 30 days or less depending on client availability.
Phil Toombs
Senior IT Engineer
"We needed to audit and cleanup our SharePoint environment to implement Copilot. Odyssey Partners was a pleasure to work with. We had a tight budget and timeline to work within, and Rob was able to execute our project plan while navigating our unique company needs."
Michael McKenna
Production Planning & Inventory Control
"We started with basic expectations, but Odyssey Partners opened up so many possibilities. They transformed SharePoint and Power Apps into a system that functions like specialized dispatching programs, which is pretty awesome."
Mark Petit
Information Technology Director - Americas
"Their approach is great. Their experience is solid. They would be an asset to any organization that needs to approach IT change and find practical solutions to improve and have positive business outcomes."
Alexa Ward
Marketing Specialist
"Our initial project environment operated like the wild west. The governance structure and guidance provided by Odyssey transformed our processes and established much needed consistency in our approach to projects across all departments."
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