Companies may have lots of reasons for wanting to build their own mobile asset management platform. They could believe it’s just faster and cheaper to build it themselves. They may think no third-party vendor can ever understand their unique needs or requirements. They may be confident their IT department is the greatest in the world.
Such companies usually find none of their assumptions are true. But even if such organization get their homemade systems to work, they forgot to ask themselves the most important question of all, one they should have asked themselves at the start: “If I build it, will my employees use it?”
Don’t Overlook Your Employees’ Mobile Asset Management Needs
Employees have become more tech-savvy at home and at work. They have ever-increasing expectations about quick and easy information access to perform their jobs.
Your employees expect the same mobility at work that they enjoy in their personal lives. Software limited to desktops or laptops is now passé. Any organization considering building its own mobile asset management platform ought to get their employees’ input before starting such a project. After all, they’ll be the ones using any do-it-yourself system, not leadership.
Too many industrial leaders ignore employee preferences and input. They leave everything to the IT team. Usability and adoption questions get brushed aside or forgotten. Instead, technology and functional models are stressed, resulting in a complex, expensive system no one in the field wants to use. This defeats the entire purpose of the project.
Does a DIY Mobile Asset Management System Make Sense?
So, does it make sense investing your time, energy and resources to develop an in-house solution? Why not leave this task to the pros while you concentrate on your key business, an area where you’re the expert?
A connected worker strategy offers a solution to your mobile asset management needs. A connected worker strategy involves:
- Rethinking traditional operating models,
- Integrating digital technology throughout a business,
- Becoming more agile and flexible in responding to problems,
- Putting the front-line industrial worker front and center of your operations.
A connected worker strategy makes use of an array of digital technology and trends to manage and track assets across an enterprise, such as:
- Cloud computing,
- Mobile devices (phone/tablet),
- Smart glasses,
- Smartwatches,
- Drones,
- Augmented reality,
- Artificial intelligence/machine learning,
- Virtual assistants.
Companies are increasingly realizing that a connected worker strategy delivers a cost-effective, operationally efficient means for mobile asset management. Why? Because it:
- Enables front-line workers focus on high-value asset management tasks,
- Lets workers share real-time asset management intelligence across their organizations,
- Empowers companies to leverage data to improve the asset inventory and cycle count process and accuracy,
- Fosters greater collaboration.
Innovapptive, a connected worker platform provider, has proven expertise in building and delivering mobile asset management systems.
Innovapptive’s solutions:
- Work right out of the box.
- Have a quick deployment time.
- Enjoy a near-universal adoption rate.
- Require no large in-house support staff.
- Integrate with legacy systems.
- Are configurable and customizable to your unique needs.
- Offer easy scalability to grow as your business grows.
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