Workplace Engineering

I just cannot stop watching this video. What an incredible vision from Microsoft. This is the kind of future I want.

According to Phill Martin, deputy chief executive of the National Association of Church Business Administration in Richardson, Texas, church administration is a critical. If you thought keeping track of employees, partners, customers and vendors was difficult for a firm, think of the mega churches. Angela Shah in the Dallas Morning News, Sunday August 10, gives an amazing insight into the challenges of managing the congregation of mega churches and a company, Fellowship Technologies, that has grown up to meet that challenge.

According to Shah, 5,000 children attend the children’s ministry at Prestonwood Baptist Church, Plano and families check in at 32 kiosks. In addition to attendance management, Fellowship technologies measures the kind of metrics that tell the church how involved their congregation is with the church. Many of the companies us consumers, employees and partners deal with have Business Intelligence and CRM systems. How many of us have a relationship that even comes close to the one these churches are able to achieve?

I do recognize the irony that the focus of this blog is the workplace; that the first post would be on a Sunday and the story a vaguely religious theme.