WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO

GO MOBILE?

BACKGROUND

By 2013, more people will use their mobile phones than PCs to go online, and there will be one mobile device for every person on earth by 2015.

The number of Web searches performed on mobile device has more than quadrupled since 2010.

Customers expect, and even demand, to be able to use a mobile device of their choice to obtain information or perform a transaction anywhere and at any time.

Q1. WHAT MANAGEMENT, ORGANIZATION, AND TECHNOLOGY ISSUES NEED TO BE ADDRESSED WHEN BUILDING MOBILE APPLICATIONS?

• What companies do? • Whey do they start?

MANAGEMENT

• Do customers who use app handle a greater number of transaction on their own and use the phone less?

• Do they spend more or less time researching products and shopping from a mobile device?

ORGANIZATION

• When people use mobile devices?• How do they research the products?TECHNOLOGY

Management

Develop mobile apps or a mobile Web

Special features – location based services

Multiple mobile platforms to work with – iPhone, Android, Windows Phone and Black berry.

Technology

Select mobile devices, operating systems and applications.

Change to business process or fail to deliver benefits if the mobile application is not properly designed

Organization

Spent time to study customers mobile behavior.

Looked at how customers use their mobile devices while shopping and researching brands to find out how consumers would connect with its brand through the mobile channel.

Q2. HOW DOES USER REQUIREMENT DEFINITION FOR MOBILE APPLICATIONS DIFFER FROM THAT IN TRADITIONAL SYSTEMS ANALYSIS?

Customer wants to be able to look at a product on his or her mobile device and see the same information on that device as that person would obtain in the store, plus some additional information, such as consumer reviews.

Mobile technology can streamline processes, make the device more portable, and enhance them with capabilities such as touch interface, location and mapping features, alerts, texting, cameras and video functionality.

The technology can also create less efficient processes or fail to deliver benefits if the mobile application is not properly designed.

Q3. DESCRIBE THE BUSINESS PROCESSES CHANGED BY USAA’S MOBILE APPLICATIONS BEFORE AND AFTER THE APPLICATIONS WERE DEPLOYED USAA launched its Web site in 1997 and went

mobile ten years later, with about 90% of its interactions with customers taking place on these two self service channels.

In 2011, USAA handled 183 millions customer contacts through the mobile channel alone, and expects the mobile channel will its primary point of contact with customers in the next two years.

USAA has 100 dedicated mobile developers writing apps for devices using the iPhone, iPad, and Android operating systems, along with apps for the Blackberry an Windows Phone 7.

CONT’S

Anytime access to the most timely data, but they did not want to be overloaded with unnecessary data so they could focus on the “watch-up indicators” considered crucial to the business

Up-to-the-minute reports that they could see quickly

on their desktops.

The data can be access via the Web or their mobile

devices.

Enterprise-wide data that could be accessed and

shared easily across various business units and functions to support the company’s expansion geographically and by product line.

HPC’s existing systems provided managers with reports to guide their business decisions, but in many cases the data in the reports were out-of-date and “sanitized”.

Individual managers were processing and manipulating the data to make their departments “look better” to senior management.

The report data were also somewhat stale and presented only on periodic basis.

WHAT PROBLEMS THE NEW SYSTEM DESIGNED TO SOLVE?

WHAT WERE SOME OF THE MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION, AND TECHNOLOGY ISSUES THAT HAD TO BE ADDRESSED BY THE NEW SYSTEM

MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION TECHNOLOGY

Develop new business process

Monitoring the implementation of the new system.

Allocation of human and financial resources

Conduct employees training

Change of corporate culture

Accessible of data (via Web-based and mobile devices)

Determine the right set of reports and dashboards

Extracting data from SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse

ISSUES

In many cases, the existing HPC’s systems provided out-of-date and “sanitized” data in the reports. Moreover, the reports data are presented only a periodic basis.

It really affecting the management decision making because the systems allow the individual managers to process and manipulate the data to make their departments “look better” to senior management.

As a result, the decision making are made based on the inaccurate, manipulated, inconsistent and untimely data (based on last quarter’s number).

Q2. TO WHAT EXTENT WERE “PEOPLE” PROBLEMS AFFECTING MANAGEMENT DECISION MAKING AT H[C?

In order to determine the right set of reports and dashboards for HPC’s executives, the information systems team started by:

- asking the executives to list existing reports, and - assess the usefulness of each reports

Then, a highly intuitive Web-based user interface was created to make the system very accessible and required little training for users to use the system.

The information systems team visited various manufacturing plants to encourage users to start working with the systems as well as had in-dept discussion with executives about the system’s benefits and how to use it.

HOW DID THE SYSTEM’S DESIGNERS MAKE THE SYSTEM MORE “PEOPLE-FRIENDLY?

User information requirements drive the entire system-building efforts.

End user must have sufficient control over the design process to ensure that the system reflects their business priorities and information needs, not the biases of the technical staff.

End user of HP’s played role to help the project information systems department by providing them the existing report that they already used.

Q3. WHAT ROLE DID END USERS PLAY IN DEVELOPNING HPC;S NEW SYSTEM

HOW DID THE PROJECT TEAM MAKE SURE USERS WERE INVOLVED?.

Once HPC’s project team determined the business intelligence tools for the solution, its focus turned to determining which data and reports were required by the company’s 200 high-level users of the new system.

The team started by asking executives to list existing reports they were already receiving and to assess the usefulness of each.

The list was cut to more manageable size and the executives were asked if there were any additional reports or data from which their organization groups could benefit.

The project team make sure the user are attended the training on how to use the new system or to access data and reports.

To encourage users to start working with the system, members of the information department conduct a discussion with the user about the benefits as well as how to use the new system.

Information systems department also to run campaigns to ensure that user are using the system with most effective way.

CONT’S

The users involved are very important in developing new systems to make sure that the information's or users needs that was determined were fulfilled.

If that is not happened, the new systems were plan to develop might be failed and not achieved the management objective.

Eventually, the project might be ‘white elephant’ and result in wasting of time and money as well.

WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED TO THE PROJECT IF THEY HAD NOT DONE THIS?

Phased approach – HPC used a phased approach in implementing the new system. HPC waited until the company was experienced with ERP software and confident in its data quality and its data collection and processing methods.

Benchmarking – HPC CIO, Jong Pyo Kim also emphasized the important of benchmarking with other companies in the industry before designing and implementing an executive-facing system. Most manufacturing will want access to similar data and performance indicators.

Q4. WHAT OTHER STEPS DID HPC TAKE TO MAKE SURE THE SYSTEMS WAS SUCCESSFUL?

1. SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards

SAP BusinessObjects is a drag-and-drop visualization tool designed to create interactive analytics for powerful, personalized dashboards based on SAP’s BusinessObjects business intelligence platform.

BusinessObjects software can be used for performance management, planning, reporting, query and analysis, and enterprise information management, and provide self-service access to data from database and Excell spreadsheets.

Q5. WHAT TYPES OF SYSTEMS-BUILDING METHODS AND TOOLS DID HPC USE FOR BUILDING ITS SYSTEM?

2. SAP BusinessObjects Web Inteligence

SAP BusinessObjects Web Inteligence is an ad hoc query, reporting, and analysis tool that is used to create queries or use existing reports, format retrieved information, and perform analysis to understand trend and root causes

CONT’S

1. Timelier Decisions :

Reduces time needed to collect, process, and track data for decision making. Supports faster decisions with quicker and more thorough analyses. Delivers timely information and various analytics to end users.

2. Personalized Delivery Of Information :

Provides option for Early Warning System of data alerts, allow for differentiated or personalized delivery of information for executives, managers, and front-line employees.

Q6. WHAT WERE THE BENEFITS OF THE NEW SYSTEM? HOW DID IT CHANGE THE WAY HONAM RAN ITS BUSINESS? HOW SUCCESSFUL WAS THIS SYSTEM SOLUTION?

3. Measurable Watch-Up Indicators Across All Business

Areas:

Ensures consistency of information and establishes structure for global sharing of information, increases business competitiveness through increased use of global information systems.

4. Improved Accessibility:

Displays data via management cockpits, dashboards, or widgets, provides unstructured details and causal analysis, leverages visual graphics to improve readability.

CONT’S

Executives not longer are limited to sanitized, stale data in an outdated presentation format.

Management discussions and decisions are based on timely, consistent, and accurate company-wide data.

HOW DID IT CHANGE THE WAY HONAM RAN ITS BUSINESS?

The system is very successful to solve the problems occur at HPC.

The system reduces the time required to collect, process, and track the data, executive decision making takes place more rapidly.

HPC’s information systems are now ready for global information-sharing as the company expands.

HOW SUCCESFUL WAS THIS SYSTEM SOLUTION?