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R&D Engineering Percent Time Allocation Timesheets and The Failed Experiment of “The Data Hat”

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:13:00 GMT

As a visiting scholar at Pacific Timesheet, I recently completed a research study: “Whacky Technology Ideas That Cannot Even Be Called Silly.” Though it was not my intention, it has become a tribute to how great Steve Jobs really was, by surveying the thousands of bad ideas and new product road kill created by other lesser brains during the Age of Steve (1979 – 2011). The study included a way to watch TV with an inhaler (don’t ask), a new kind of ethanol you could manufacture from old bed sheets, and force-field furniture for people who move a lot and have no friends. However, my favorite example of a failed technology product was “The Data Hat.”

New SaaS Timesheet Information Search Features

Sun, 23 Jan 2011 20:15:00 GMT

Imagine running a keyword query for comments related to issues such as "damaged equipment," "wrong price" or "project late." Managers can easily pull up all time entries with these keywords in their comments and zero in on when, where and how things happened.

Crew Timesheet Tips: Automating Cost Code and Craft Level Assignment

Wed, 06 Oct 2010 16:55:00 GMT

The majority of construction and field services operations use daily paper crew timesheets to track time by job, cost or craft codes. The paper timesheets need to be created, printed and distributed by administrative staff at the job site...

Why Automate Time Tracking? Dramatically Increased Visibility

Thu, 23 Sep 2010 00:14:00 GMT

When you automate time tracking perhaps the greatest benefit is an immediate dramatic increase in visibility into timesheets and time off taken, and time off schedules. With manual paper-based timesheets, time cards or Excel sheets, to see any information you have to wait until they are turned in at the end of the day or week. With an automated time tracking system you can see any information you need with one or two clicks....

The Case For Automating Manual Time Tracking

Tue, 06 Apr 2010 21:22:00 GMT

In business there's probably not much more important than the time it takes to complete a task. Tracking employee time has a long history. Check the history of time clocks in Wikipedia, you'll learn that the founding companies of IBM made the first mechanical punch time clocks, and how more sophisticated devices like proximity, badge swipe or biometric time clocks later came into use. What it does not tell you is how slow the marketplace has been to adopt new technology in time tracking. Why? Because what's tried, true and proven is difficult to replace from the standpoint of 1) cost 2) risk and 3) inertia.