Professional activity control system and interactive activities management

Professional activity of any specialist requires centralized planning and controlling from the side of organizational management. Professional activity management is a kindofclassical interactive activities because it requires permanent collaboration between authorities that assign and supervise jobs and subordinates that execute jobs. Essential feature of interactive activities isability ofactivities' participants to respond and intercommunicate. Professional activity management can be performed only through the special system that allows interactive activities (activities that can be shared among participants, controlled, tracked, modified). Organizational management is an owner of employee's professional activity and must be interested in high quality of this activity.

How can professional activity of each specialist be controlled? It can be controlled with a help of following interactive activities - interactive information activity and activity level monitoring. Interactive information activity meanssystem and environment whereauthorities and subordinates can conveniently send and receive professional information - assign and receive tasks, set and track quantitative and qualitative activity measurement parameters, give orders, instructions, feedbacks, reports etc. Activity level monitoring should be performed through system of activity measurement. Activity level monitoring includes productivity and efficiency management and require establishment of professional activity measurement system.  System of information activity is an instrument that allows managers to preset parameters of work for subordinates, control results, track work performance, receive reports and respond the feedbacks from employees.

Together environment for business information activity and the system of activity level monitoring are key parts of professional activity controlling system.Only together they can ensure proper collaboration and communication between managers and employees. To establish proper level of professional activity control it ispossible to implement software system which will be information activity environment and activity level monitoring tool.

VIP Task Manager is groupware that works as activity editor (planning tasks and projects), activity measurement tool (tracking tasks), activity register (reporting tasks and task history), activity level monitoring tool (efficiency and productivity tracking), interactive activities tool (real-time collaboration and task, documents, progress sharing).
VIP Task Manager is a time and task planning groupware which allow breaking-down projects into tasks, assigning tasks to executors, placing tasks into task groups, and tracking course of task performance in real-time regime.

VIP Task Manager is easy-to-use task management groupware which allows multiple users access one database via LAN and Internet. It features

• Tasks (sales plans, business processes, procedures etc.) planning, reporting and tracking;
• Management of office employees, departments and small projects;
• Task List, Task Tree, Scheduler (Calendar) modes;
• Setting of timelines, priorities, tasks order and workloads;
• Common and individual schedule management;
• Time, workflow, productivity, KPI control;
• Customization of task attributes;
• Charts and exportable reports;
• Management of access rights;
• Real-time collaboration;

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