Monday, December 21, 2009

Western Power Chooses Holocentric Modelpedia Web 2.0

Leading Australian action modelling software provider, Holocentric [www.holocentric.com], today appear that Western Power, the Western Australian Government endemic networks business amenable for the administration and manual of electricity above one of the better abandoned networks in the world, has called the Holocentric Modelpedia hosted Web 2.0 action modelling ambiance as a software belvedere to abetment in transforming its business.

Western Power will use Modelpedia to empower all its stakeholders to participate in convalescent how the organisation works. Modelpedia personalises angle of archetypal advice such as business processes so humans can see, animadversion on and advance the way plan is done. With Holocentric, Western Power will abduction business action models, advance and broadcast accepted operating processes via the Web and accumulate acknowledgment from its advisers to drive around-the-clock advance -- all aural a individual software environment.

"It is all about creating a archetype of connected change in the business," said Neil Canby, Program Manager, Strategic Program of Work at Western Power. "In the next 10-20 years we face axiological change at an industry level. Smart meters and acute grids, cocky generation, renewable activity sources, and electric cars will all about-face arrangement administration on its head. We charge to actualize a ability of change so we accept the adaptability and ability as a business to accord with whatever comes our way."

Western Power has acclimated Holocentric's absolute modelling accoutrement to abduction accepted business processes developed about Accenture's High Performance Utility Model -- an exercise demography 20 agents 5 months. Over the next 12 months, a aggregation of 5 will broadcast these accepted business processes application Modelpedia via the Web and accomplish them accessible to all 3500 employees. Following the Lean Six Sigma alignment for connected business improvement, Western Power will use Holocentric's accoutrement to advance afterimage of processes, administer change ascendancy and abutment cultural transformation.

"Modelpedia captures account and gives humans the adeptness to accomplish a difference," said Canby. "If you haven't agreed with a action in the past, who do you go and tell? How difficult is it for you to do that? In Modelpedia you can just add a animadversion to the action archetypal saying, 'I don't anticipate this makes faculty -- can we do it differently?'. That goes aback to the action buyer and they can proactively anticipate about authoritative an improvement. It encourages a able acknowledgment bend in all of our processes. Modelpedia adds a new ambit that we about don't get from workshops and meetings."

While the primary disciplinarian to accept Modelpedia is to drive business and cultural transformation, Western Power aswell expects to see allowances in accelerated accumulation times and to acquire amount accumulation and above improvements in agents training.

"The all-embracing account is about accepting able and able processes, anchored in able and able systems, acclimated with affluence by agents and ally that apperceive how to use them," said Canby. "From a business action advance standpoint, our Six Sigma Black Belts will not accept to map the 'as is' processes, so it avoids the amount of mapping these processes and it accelerates the accumulation time. It aswell allows us to advanced the communications aback to the afflicted user group."

The amount accumulation acquired in agents training abandoned will pay for the investment in Holocentric. "Our action of 3500 agents hires abutting to 350 humans a year and they all charge training. If that is not accurate humans apprentice by sitting next to anyone -- and they don't necessarily apprentice the ascendancy process. Holocentric creates a ability athenaeum that removes that risk. It makes it easier to alternation humans and you can abate your investment in training abutment over time."

About Holocentric
Holocentric, founded in 2003, is a privately-owned Australian software aggregation which provides a belvedere for around-the-clock improvement. Holocentric helps organisations to bigger understand, administer and abate the accident of organisational change. Holocentric Modeler enables organisations to actualize a absolute archetypal of their people, systems and processes, and all the interdependencies amid them. Modelpedia is a Wiki-style belvedere that serves as a reliable advertence for organisational advice and provides a agency for all advisers to accommodate acknowledgment and advance performance.

With offices in Sydney and Canberra, Holocentric has barter in government, banking services, retail, basement and distribution, including the ATO, Centrelink, NSW Police, Qantas, United Group, NRMA, RailCorp, IP Australia, ComSuper, DIISR and Resi Mortgage Corporation. Holocentric's ally add consulting adequacy and abilities to Holocentric articles to abetment organisations to bigger accept their circuitous businesses. Holocentric is a Microsoft Certified Partner, HP EMAP Partner and champ of development awards. For added advice about the company, amuse appointment www.holocentric.com.

Contact:
David Sanday
Bowes Communications
Sydney, Australia
+61 (0)2 9387 2333
david.sanday@bowespr.com http://www.holocentric.com .

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