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Successful Deployment without a lot of training
DEUTSCHES GRÜNES KREUZ
Deutsches Grünes Kreuz (DGK) is the oldest Non-Profit Organization in the research for health concerns and communication in Germany (founded in 1948). It is independent without any relation with politics, religious or business group. Its chart stands for that humans, animals and the environment should be protected. The green cross was chosen as a symbol because in Europe it has a long tradition as of representing humanitarian cooperation.
DGK’s most important task is to motivate the population and to make them responsible for their own health. The organisation uses campaigns and information to communicate a healthier way of leaving.
THE CHALLENGE
To assure that the population will be accurately informed, DKG works with the press, TV and radio. Like that DGK’s articles appear regularly in newspapers and magazines. A lot of daily newspapers have a weekly health column. Besides their own pictures and information go to all editors and their website is here to communicate directly with everyone.
The press and their information services reach together more than one billion editions in one year, which positions DGK as the most printed health information in the country. Add to this there are about 1,500 radio broadcasts and 200 TV announcements which are produced by DGK.
With regional and national actions DGK addresses directly the population and specific groups on health subjects and calls for active participation for precaution measures.
THE SOLUTION
To accomplish better this task and to improve the networking, DKG’s Project manager decided to reorganize and to replace the current isolated solution (Excel, GIS PAM) with one unique solution. The goal was to use only one product which met all Project management requirements and which had a central implementation.
The decision to adopt Lotus Notes as communication and Groupware platform was closely linked with finding a solution which was also based on this platform Between all the propositions, they chose the product Genius Project4Domino.
THE RESULTS
In December 2005 they chose Genius Project4Domino and only after 2 months they could start to be productive with the implementation and the training. After this more and more new and existent projects were created in Genius Project4Domino. Now after half a year they can talk about a successful deployment. Genius Project4Domino stands out that it is a tool for project management as well as order management. An added advantage is hat the user can start to work right away with the product without a lot of training. The benefits from such a tool are seen after some time after the implementation.
Another positive observation is that small functions can be easily customized, without compromising future updates. It means that the customization stay also when a new version is installed and can be further used. they are convinced that they made the right choice and if they had to do it over, they would definitely choose Genius Project4Domino again.
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