| Infohrm Group Partners with Universities to Develop Integrated Management Dashboard |
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The partnership follows a $2 million grant from the Federal Government to the University of Southern Queensland under Round 2 of the Workplace Productivity Programme. (WPP). The WPP was introduced to encourage higher education providers to strengthen their capability to manage workplace change. The Integrated Dashboard for Universities project aims to deliver an analytical reporting solution across various levels of university management and facilitate effective information-based decision-making promoting flexibility, productivity and performance. In particular, the project will focus on systems development and integration to enable rapid identification of areas of strength and weakness for specific improvement, including resource allocations, responsiveness, business decision-making and service delivery quality. Five broad areas of data will be captured and integrated, including human resources, finance, student, research and facilities. The Integrated Dashboard for Universities will provide the participating universities with the capacity to deliver powerful cross-functional business intelligence to each of the individual participants as well as to the Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST). The underlying web-based technology for the development of the Integrated Dashboard for Universities project has been developed by Infohrm over the past ten years and implemented in more than 200 organisations worldwide. At the same time, Infohrm had previously worked separately with each of the three universities to develop and deliver a series of workforce reports and analytic measures of productivity and performance. It will now use the collective knowledge gained from implementation of the web-based platform to develop the integrated dashboard. “We have worked with Infohrm during the past four years to develop a basic prototype Integrated University Dashboard. We were impressed with Infohrm’s capability to apply its underlying workforce technology to university data such as student records and financial data. As a result, we’re now looking forward to the benefits that a new information driven approach will bring the sector in strategic direction-setting and benchmarking analysis”, said John Pearson, Group Manager, Human Resources & Corporate Services, University of Southern Queensland. Once fully operational, the universities will benefit from an enhanced capacity to identify areas of strength, including an improvement in cross-faculty and cross-course collaboration; an increased understanding of facilities utilisation and costing; internal benchmarking of performance between faculties; information to assist in better course design and redesign; improved university marketing strategies; the cost-effectiveness and demand of subjects; the correct mix of academic staff by discipline; and supplementary information to support the decision-making process for future grant of funding activity submissions. The successful implementation of the project will also provide flow on benefits for other universities to improve their efficiency and performance. Anastasia Ellerby, Managing Director, Infohrm, said, “Over the past ten years, Australian universities have made major capital decisions in implementing various information systems across different functional areas. Currently, these operational systems have a strong transactional processing focus and, consequently, reporting functionality is generically more geared towards operational requirements than integrated cross-domain analysis.” “Sourcing, integration and consolidation of data from multiple heterogeneous operational systems is the key to delivering powerful cross-functional business intelligence to each of the universities and DEST. The Integrated Dashboard for Universities project will generate greater value from each university’s investments through advanced reporting, integrated analysis and the application of business intelligence concepts. Our experience shows that collaboration naturally leads to more universally accepted standards.” Infohrm is an Australian Government Endorsed Supplier and has undergone a 35 per cent year-over-year corporate growth for the past three years across its portfolio of human capital analytics and workforce planning solutions. Its public sector clients include, Air Services Australia, Australian National Audit Office, Department of Education, Science and Training Organisation (DEST), Australian Customs Service, Brisbane City Council, Centrelink and the Reserve Bank of Australia. About Infohrm Group The Infohrm Group is the global leader in on-demand workforce reporting, workforce planning, and human capital analytics solutions. With over 30 years of experience, and a strong customer base consisting of Fortune 500 and 1000 clients, Infohrm has paved the way for organisations to measure the impact of human capital initiatives and drive business results. The Infohrm solutions couple a leading edge on-demand technology platform with strategic consulting services; to focus on the analysis of data to help organisations make informed decisions around human capital practices. Infohrm is headquartered in Brisbane and with offices in Europe and North America. ENDS
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