Holistic management vision: the trend reshaping how companies are run

The holistic management view stems from the following premise: the purpose of technology is to improve living conditions and, in business in particular, to improve results with less effort.

That aim is generally met, but it is also worth bearing in mind that applying technology creates new challenges.

A clear example is the growing volume of data and its processing.

The more technology there is, the greater the capacity to capture data and therefore the greater the challenge of turning it into intelligent decisions.

To be clear: there is such a volume of data that processing it quickly is difficult.

With that in mind, leading decision-makers have been applying the theory of the holistic management view within their workflows.

The holistic management view is a decision-maker's ability to see the full picture of what is happening with their staff.

When is it right to apply holistic management view strategies?

It becomes especially relevant when the decision-maker and the staff are at different geographic points. In other words, it is a fantastic tool for improving your geo-productivity through your geo-management.

The holistic management view is chiefly about automatically gathering data, turning that data into organized information, generating intelligence from that information, being able to act, and finally seeing the whole process, which allows planning, execution and control in real time.

Through operational mobility tools it captures real-time data and, through various dashboards and reports, can produce changes to the mobile workflow that optimize resources and maximize the productivity of each worker and therefore of the business as a whole.

Operational mobility tools

"The right tool at the right moment." Mobility refers to a field worker's ability to have the information they need, and the ability to act on that information, at all times. 

Mobility tools give the worker a greater degree of contextual relevance and operational fluidity, as well as generating the flows of information that feed the decision-maker's dashboards. 

In short, operational mobility is the data input that becomes intelligence and action through the holistic management view.

What are the main elements of the holistic management view?

Automatic dashboards

Automatic dashboards are systems for visualizing data that has been turned into intelligence.

Using the best practices of data intelligence and business engineering, automatic dashboards can be configured to support conclusions with visual evidence.

These dashboards can hold your business's key performance indicators, task completion rates and any number of other variables that will put you in control of what is happening in your business.

But be careful: choosing the wrong indicator can lead you to steer your entire business by numbers that are not the right ones.

It is always advisable to have a Business Intelligence specialist alongside you as you build your dashboards.

Mobile Workflow

Data visibility is only one of the parts that make up the holistic management view. There is no point in seeing if you cannot act.

For that, the holistic management view builds on the dashboards to understand what is happening and turns that understanding into the ability to act.

That is what mobile workflow is for.

Mobile workflow is the workflow shared between a decision-maker who holds the holistic management view and a field worker who has an operational mobility tool, such as a smartphone running geo-management software (GMS).

That way, manually or by following automated rules, a decision-maker can make changes to the mobile workflow that translate into changes in the specific tasks the field worker has to carry out.

So spotting a delay in delivering a service can lead the decision-maker to change their staff's schedule as data comes in that lets them make better use of the resources available.

In short, the holistic management view is nothing more and nothing less than the ability to stay in control of your business's key indicators and to take manual or automated action that improves those indicators and therefore maximizes your returns.