Chap 5 Assign
Chap 5 Assign
Chap 5 Assign
In an attempt to find the best technological and business solution for the current lack of system integration
between HR Development services and tools, alternatives are presented as specified below:
Business Aspects
The purpose of the Virtual University project is to consolidate the Learning Organisation concept.
In this way, as was shown above, several self-development resources will be made available. Thus
employees are being made accountable for their own development and for partial management of
their careers
Quantifiable Benefits
The Virtual University will contribute to increase in productivity, since it will reduce the time spent
by employees on physical-attendance training programs. Also relevant is the reduction of costs
resulting from the creation of groups for physical-attendance courses.
Below is a table showing the benefits of the Virtual University.
Non-Quantifiable Benefits
Benefits of this kind may be classified as follows:
- Systems integration
- Encouragement of Self-Development
- More efficient monitoring of skill development process
- Prompter meeting of D&T needs
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- Equipment capacity: reduction of upgrading
- Easier and quicker access to HR Systems
- Learning Organisation image consolidation
OPINION
CPIs Human Resources (HR) systems are in disarray. Christopher Martin and James Cameron, the
projects sponsors, describe the problem as a lack of integration among disparate HR systems that leads to
extensive duplication and waste of effort. They propose an HR Intranet for $350,000 to speed up the
process of skill absorption and to create one-stop shopping for all HR systems and executive tools. Their
business case is largely grounded in arguments of faith regarding the organizational impact of the new
system. Their analysis reports on both quantifiable and non-quantifiable benefits, includes a risk analysis, two
alternatives, and an action plan. They calculate a net present value for the five years of the project at $1,601.
There is a Lack of Coherence between Problem and Solution of the business case identifies the core
business problem as a lack of integration between HR systems, leading to wasted time/effort in inputting and
retrieving information, information inconsistencies and unwillingness to update the functionality of what are
perceived as out-dated systems
The Magnitude of the Business Change even if we ignore the above and accept the solution as
proposed, the project would bring about fundamental business changes, the success of which the document
seems to take for granted. To take a few of the more evident examples, the project would replace physical
training courses with interactive or distance computer-based training, it would put in place a network of
Virtual Mentors and it would devolve the matching of courses to candidates away from HR into line
management.