Project Management - Time Reporting for Various Teams

Background

Our client is a not-for-profit institute dedicated to sustaining water governance. With a large employee strength spread across continents, it becomes a necessity to track, manage and streamline each employee activity in order to sync with the whole organization’s purpose.
Keeping a track of every employee’s time frame, role and activities can turn out to be a haphazard task if not streamlined in an organized manner. This is exactly what happened with this organization before we stepped in.

The Challenges

For a large workforce spread across more than 20 countries, remotely coordinating and synchronizing each employee’s daily time report and set of activities can be challenging for the human resource department as well as for the team leads.
The organization comprises various departments like Finance, Project Management Teams, R&D Teams and Human Resource. Each department is highly autonomous and therefore, maintains its own set of records and employee information by using different applications.
Before we came into the scene, the organization was using simple Excel sheets to track and monitor the time recording of each of its employees. Due to the presence of a number of departments maintaining their own set of employee records, it became a challenge for the Human Resource Department to collect and record the data in a single database using a tool like Excel. They needed a solution that was robust, automated and easily integrated.
Some of the major repercussions/ challenges that propped up due to this decentralization of data are:
Project Info
The Client

The national water institute based out of European Region leverages knowledge and convening power to strengthen water governance for a prosperous, and sustainable future. A team of 200 scientists integrated together to find the solution to the global water crisis. They focus on the range and development within and around water that supports decision-making around the world. Their flagship program aims to connect water stakeholders internationally.

Location

Europe

Conclusion

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The Solution

Our role here was to mitigate the major challenge of repetitive data, manual workload and disintegration with the help of software and our consultant expertise.
Following are the major steps that were undertaken to meet these challenges:
The organization finally had a single unified employee database and employee time tracking reports that could be accessed by the stakeholders remotely from anywhere in the world.