Much of the IP value of corporations in today's knowledge based economy is the information in the minds of the employees. Status reporting can capture this information in a clean and organized fashion making it available to the company as part of a knowledge search. The plain fact is that corporations cannot afford to forget what they already know.

The problem is generally that it's difficult to get employees to submit a regular and informative report. Even if you get past that hurdle, then typically there are a variety of report styles and templates which are used. This can be time consuming to read, and often requires several rounds of clarifications. But nevertheless even assuming both those issues are solved, then it's usually impossible for a department manager to open individual emails from all employees every week. The inKontext status reporting feature solves these problems and more...

 

Distinguishing Features: single format for all employee status reports collation of individual reports into single document for executive review searchable and can be sorted by employee, project, rime period, topic or supervisor automatic alerting to missing reports achievements, red flags, plans and personal areas reports kept under version control integrated to project management module as well as collaboration core

The ability for managers and executives to get a regular detailed report compiled from all levels of their organization gives an unprecedented view of what is really going on in a program based on the opinions of employees working at the coal-face. It is straight information which has not been filtered by levels of management hierarchy, and is an indispensable alternative view to a project manager's GANNT chart.