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Subject:Who's where, and how do we know? From:mlist -at- safenet-inc -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 15 Mar 2005 15:53:22 -0500
This is probably another of those "It depends on how IT has set up your
network" things, but I'll ask anyway.
Assuming that your employer employs more than a few hundred people, and that
your operations are scattered across several locations, how do you find
people? Say, for example, you needed to publish some procedure to all the
software engineers -- how would you do it without spamming the rest of the
company?
We writers were asked to produce some instructional stuff for a few
different groups in the company. Now there's the problem of getting the
material to the people who need it (when many of them don't even know that
they need).
The company IT and HR functions have been mostly consolidated (sort of)
since the last round of acquisitions, but there doesn't seem to be a single
public list that identifies not just names, numbers and e-mail addresses,
but titles/functions, Departments/groups, info that tells you where people
fit.
This is obviously a wheel that's been invented many times, so if your
company fits the description what is used where you work? I'll pass on the
suggestions.
Kevin (who might be the writer Kevin, or the lawyer Kevin, or one of the
Sales Kevins, or one of the developer Kevins, but how would anybody pick me
out of the crowd? -- ok, other than the gray hair and the twitch?)
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