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Innovative process you have introduced?

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Sonali Malu Maharashtra, India
Share details of an innovative process you have introduced in your organization and how it helped.
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Al Taylor I.T. Contractor| Independent Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
I invented the vending machine.

Seriously, is a great question! Many years I delivered a project for a client with a relatively immature project model....I introduced formal change control....it helped by creating rigour and integory around the process.
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Joshua Render Product Owner| Cognizant Harrisville, Ny, United States
I tend to make it my mission to eradicate the overuse of Excel files. I usually fail, but a few months before leaving my last job I managed to completely change a bulky process that involved thousands of Excel files and I replaced it with an application and a database.

Usually, I inadvertently introduce more Excel files. Thanks to VBA in Excel and it existing on most people's computers, it becomes the go-to tool when you need to create quick and dirty automation.
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Aug 29, 2018 9:59 AM
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We have an excel addiction here as well. I have tried to steer people to use SharePoint more. I also created a database and application. But they keep going back to excel.
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Dinah Young Project Manager / Software Asset Manager| Prince William County Springfield, Va, United States
Aug 29, 2018 8:32 AM
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I tend to make it my mission to eradicate the overuse of Excel files. I usually fail, but a few months before leaving my last job I managed to completely change a bulky process that involved thousands of Excel files and I replaced it with an application and a database.

Usually, I inadvertently introduce more Excel files. Thanks to VBA in Excel and it existing on most people's computers, it becomes the go-to tool when you need to create quick and dirty automation.
We have an excel addiction here as well. I have tried to steer people to use SharePoint more. I also created a database and application. But they keep going back to excel.
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Dinah Young Project Manager / Software Asset Manager| Prince William County Springfield, Va, United States
We are a local government. Our Planning office maintains a comprehensive plan that includes information on schools, roads, libraries, housing, land use, etc. This was being maintained and presented to residents in pdf files with static maps.
We were discussing better ways to show this information. I remembered that our GIS team had demoed a product a few years before, called ESRI Story Maps. They combine authoritative maps with narrative text, images, and multimedia content. I brought our GIS team in to brainstorm and brought up this technology. They agreed that it would be a good solution. We did a few sections to present as a proof of concept. Planning loved the idea. It did result in more work for Planning than they expected, but they felt it was worth it. The result was a more interactive way of presenting somewhat boring information. The maps were live. Images were added. The data "came alive".
The solution deployed and the entire team won an award. One of our Board of Directors was so pleased that he could not wait to brag about it to other County Board members. He enjoys when they try to brag about some new initiative they are starting and he can respond with a "we have been doing that for years".

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