Isuzu Australia Limited has been marketing Isuzu trucks for about a quarter of a century. The corporation promised to deliver premium product from the Australian market and have been successful thus far. The company vision, according to (Isuzu Australia Limited, 2010), “To be Australia’s No.1 Truck company with a dedication to excellence environmental practices and an unrivalled focus on Customer Care” (para. 3). When the company first started, all information was distributed manually and it was expensive and time consuming. Nowadays, the company uses a WebSphere Portal, which is inexpensive and saves the employees time. The Web Portal is consider a groupware or collaboration system and there are some challenges implementing this method within the company. The difference between dashboards and scorecards, in ways Isuzu Australia can used them, also will be discussed.
There are some challenges when it comes to implementing groupware in a business firm. Social organization is one of the problem that arise when it comes to human interaction and calendar systems. When companies, like Isuzu Australia Limited (IAL), want to do conference meetings about their products from a global standpoint; collaboration is supported by sharing or viewing other people’s calendar. This may seem like a simple task for business firms to complete successfully, but issues will occur if individuals in the organization make mistake in their calendar information. According to (Palen, 1999), individuals’ calendar information is read-accessible to other users by default (an “Open” Model GCS). Others GCSs may reveal only blocks of free and busy times by default (a “Restricted” Model GCS), while still others may reveal no information to other users on...
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...among multiple companies, due to calendar scheduling. The difference between dashboards and scoreboards were the different styles of key performance indicator the two type of report formatted. And how (IAL) can use wiki in their favor by implementing cloud computing on their website.
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