How can you ensure your operational planning tools are compatible with your organization's software?

What about training the people to use the system? Does it require new skills? How does it interact with your current systems? And, if that changes your other systems do your people need training on that. When we look at new and improved systems and or technologies we must not forget about the affects on the things we are not changing. Second and third order items commonly see effects we were not thinking about. Even if you like or see good in a change ask the hard questions: what is the link between A - B - C and so forth or any combination there of.

Além do escopo para definir uma ferramenta de planejamento operacional, o ideal é se utilizar do 5W1H uma vez que a aquisi??o da ferramenta possa n?o depender da avalia??o do gestor responsável pela capilaridade da mesma aos stakeholders.

Assessing the needs and objectives is the first requirement in choosing the right planning tool but it is not enough. we should also consider how the tool can be implemented in the concept of our team, organization, and the facilities provided in the organization or in the case of my country, if the tool is supported in the region or not.

The tools should suffice your requirements, If found meeting below standards, upgrade them instead of going for new altogether

Para avaliar as vantagens e desvantagens na implanta??o de uma ferramenta de planejamento operacional, uma empresa depende do nível de maturidade tecnológica de seus colaboradores. A aplica??o de uma Matriz de Flexibilidade auxilia na tomada de decis?o caso a decis?o seja do tipo bottom-up.

I agree with the idea provided in the article. during my years of working as an urban planner, I have seen many times, that stakeholders or project managers insist on using one specific tool which can be state-of-the-art new technology but it can not be a good fit for the purpose of the project. as the result having a very clear definition of the idea, the needs and knowing the tools can help us have a more efficient choice.

monitoring and maintaining operational planning tools is a regular task that should take place in the process of the project, before, middle, and at the end, and ensure the backup and access systems work properly and are checked regularly.

More than anything, it’s important to not let the systems and planning tools stifle your creativity and desire to “plan against the grain” and be different. The quickest way to the graveyard of irrelevance for a planning firm is to get self fascinated with your own data tools instead of talking and listening to people while reflecting and observing and anticipating the problems to be solved in the built and social environment. Nothing worthwhile ever started with a data tool, and the tools should never drive the analysis.

what I think is essential to be added here, is we use tools to have a better, more efficient, and more accurate system of planning, just because a tool is a new technology, we should not intervene in the objectives of the project to align with the tool and keep in mind that the tool is there to align with our objectives not the other way.