Are You in Control?

In today’s increasingly competitive and regulated world, organizations must manage the flow of business-relevant information in a controlled manner. For companies managing engineering content, this is especially critical, as a lack of document management can be financially devastating to the business. Losing a document or referencing the wrong document can create project delays, unnecessary rework, missed profits, angry clients, litigation, financial penalties and - in the worst cases - even injuries or fatalities.

A New Concept: Intellectual Work Management

Effective document management involves more than technology; it is an organizational behavior that encompasses people, practices and processes. To get insight into the status of a project and to understand its potential impact on the business, you must be able to monitor, measure and manage the production of intellectual property as it progresses through the creation, review and approval phases.

As a result, you can evolve a productive individual into a key component of a well managed, process driven, effective and auditable process team. This is a concept we refer to as Intellectual Work Management (IWM). IWM is all about optimizing the engineering design and asset change management processes by focusing on the processes around creating and using business-critical intellectual property. This gives you the ability to better predict the delivery of intellectual work and plan for future projects.

Enterprise Engineer and Intellectual Work Management

Intellectual Work Management is all about optimizing the engineering design and asset change management processes by focusing on the processes around creating and using business-critical intellectual property. By monitoring, measuring and managing the tasks associated with a document within a project, you have greater insight into the success of a project and its potential impact on the business.

IWM applications, such as McLaren Software’s Enterprise Engineer (EE) Application Suite, automate these key business processes; helping your organization lower costs, reduce the risk of non-compliance and operate more efficiently.

Using EE to automate key business processes for creating and using intellectual property will give your organization:

• Better insight and control over project deliverables and their status so that you can make informed decisions
• Business control to comply with internal and external mandates
• Predefined business rules and processes designed to mitigate risk and improve performance