For the performance of the human resources in an organization, Efficient working of other resources play an important role.
It was
2010-11. While working for a renowned blue-chip company, in its EPC division
Head Quarters at Noida, I was transferred to Core Engineering – Electrical group
and was assigned the role of Engineering Coordinator (Electrical) for 4000 MW
Ultra Thermal Power Project by Head Engineering (Electrical).
I observed
that most of my colleagues in engineering office were working on desktops. They
were all core designers.
Whenever, I
used to visit their workstations for discussions and for one to one reviews, I
observed that opening of auto CAD drawings on their desktops used to take a lot
of time and any command given, take much time in implementation. MS documents
opening was also slow. Sometimes it used to be time consuming, irritating and
had an impact on decision making.
I thought
that it may be because of lag response from the IT servers. But one fine day, it
clicked to my mind that the delays may be because of RAM size of individual
desktop computers.
I,
immediately, checked each and every Desktop of my team and collected the data.
Surprisingly, RAM were either 256 MB or 512 MB. Only Auto CAD draftsman had the
RAM of 1 GB.
Immediately
I had drafted an email and sent it to my Head Engineering (Electrical) who was
at Mumbai Head Quarters that day. I had recommended that all desktops of core
design team shall have RAM of 2GB for operational efficiency.
By the
evening IT department was geared up and they had taken, given observation, seriously.
Mapping of all the desktops in Core Engineering group was done and in few days’
time RAMs were purchased and replaced in systems.
It was
observed that there was mass induction of GETs in the organization in 2008 and
whatever desktops were assigned to them, at that point of time, they were
carrying the same from one department to another. It was obvious, as they had
to carry their data till date to the new assignment.
It was a
small observation on my part, but had a greater impact on the working of the
team and their efficiency and decision making.
Though IT
department in every organization used to do the physical audit of IT assets on
periodical basis but I hope they keep track on the RAM / memory etc. also.
I conclude
that It’s important to be equipped with the right tools to work.
Subject
matter expert i.e. IT support team is the best to judge the needs of the organization
and finalize the systems to be procured and installed / implemented. Periodic
assessment, with respect to new developments in product line, may help as,
now-a-days, technology changes at a very faster pace.
Source of
the pic: https://www.hp.com/us-en/shop/tech-takes/specifications-personal-computers-over-time
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