Team Analytics: Understanding Teams in the Global Workplace

This article focuses on the problem of searching for employees and organising them into groups to better facilitate communication and makes the search process faster. This program offers several different grouping techniques such as:

• Picture gallery: Displays all the employees at the top of the screen and gives their name upon mouse scroll over. This increases the effectiveness of selecting a person faster because of the visual feedback of a face can be stronger than seeing a name.
• Organisation chart: This is a quick way of describing how the different employees fit together as a group by using a flow chart. This makes searching easier as all the members are on one screen instead of having to look up each person to see how they fit in the organisation. The nodes are also color coded to determine the members role in a group i.e. manager.
  
• Attribute pie chart: Used to quickly determine the attribute distribution of a large group such as engineers or managers.
• Timezone pain chart: This is used to organize meetings with people who live in different timezones so that employees are not inconvenienced.
  
• Bizcard Section: Simply this section provides job titles and contact info for each employee.

I believe this is a great application to easily find and separate people into different groups. This seems to be like the new Facebook for the business world and will become very useful.

This article by: Jan H. Pieper, Julia Grace, Stephen Dill