Traditional management vs. geo-management: improving activity, efficiency and relationships across the operation

Geo-management is here to stay. The technological maturity we live in makes possible a connectivity and a productive mobility model that frees work from fixed, predetermined places and calls for new, more dynamic processes that connect and integrate.

Traditional management, tied to paper and to redundant administrative processes that are neither systematized nor centralized, slows and stalls the flow of work and information that geo-management sets in motion. Geo-management empowers everyone involved in the operational process and strengthens how they work together. 

What are those improvements and how does it deliver them? Through digital geo-management tools like the ones we design at GoDoWorks to boost company productivity, field staff, their supervisors, suppliers, end clients and management all get more information, better processes and greater capacity to act.

1. Geo-management makes the field worker's job easier

Whether through the convenience of a digital form for recording work on site, or the ability to take a photo and upload it to the digital tool as evidence of what was done, the field worker gets working days with fewer administrative complications and higher productivity. 

Geo-management tools like GoDoWorks's also help them navigate routes better to cut travel time in the field (and spare them the decision about which route to take).

2. Geo-management makes coordination and supervision easier 

Even companies with substantial enterprise resource planning capabilities still use WhatsApp to reach their field staff or their clients. Using instant messaging platforms that do not centralize operations and that add yet another contact channel tends to create disorder and scatter in the workflow

The key to geo-management is centralizing and systematizing processes so that no extra communication, contact and supervision platforms are added, and everything happens in one place instead. That unification creates efficiency: once automatic forms and channels of contact are in place, thanks to geolocation and real-time data, human effort can go to things other than how to record field information or how to make contact.

3. Geo-management brings two crucial players into that centralized workflow: the supplier and the end client

Where traditional management treats invoicing cycles of several weeks as normal or expected, geo-management drastically shortens invoicing by integrating it. That is, a cycle of weeks becomes immediate invoicing. 

By integrating the supplier, geo-management also brings traceability to the supply chain. That guarantees operations run correctly and adds security to dispatch, to usage and to the control and inventory of supplies. 

The other player who finds an integrated place thanks to geo-management, and who gets information of real interest to them, is the end client. For companies looking to improve their CRM (customer relationship management), this is worth noting. The client receives, digitally, information about the jobs they requested, how they are being handled, their service history, and the option to give feedback. Geo-management therefore brings closeness, integrates, and opens channels of communication with the end client. 

4. Geo-management gives management real-time vision and clarity on productivity and performance, plus forecasts of future service demand

How do you make business decisions on partial or sometimes outdated information? Geo-management stands apart from traditional options through its ability to capture information and systematically turn it into business insight. The centralization it achieves records every relevant aspect of how operations perform. That makes it easier to see what needs strengthening and to detect and fix problems immediately. The digital tool's artificial intelligence also makes it possible to understand patterns in service demand and produce valuable forecasts of how it will behave.

At GoDoWorks, we understand the challenges of traditional management. Our mission is to equip companies with solutions that not only create efficiency and productivity but improve  every aspect of management and carry us into the future. Our knowledge and experience in geo-management let us advise today on what it can transform.