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Corporate Planning & Setup

Each company is a vehicle that can go very far or very short depends on how it is built and equipped. Abillance.com gives you the tools and building blocks to make your company a strong vehicle, especially for driving in collaboration with others.

Corporate Structure Definition

Collaborating parties usually vary from project to project. That is why in the beginning, even before any real collaboration starts, it is imperative to define what types of entities, organisations, cultures and systems would suit to a particular project environment. In Abillance.com, the roles & rules of internal and external engagements can be set up with unprecedented effectiveness. Assuming Abillance.com is shared among participating stakeholders, nearly all applicable criteria for their collaboration can be modelled using selection tags, filters, tree graphs, levels of commands, areas and levels of access, and links to organisations & projects. Abillance.com is ready to accommodate nearly any organisational design.

Legal Frame

A corporate legal setup should reflect strategic goal definitions, quality requirements and business-specific conditions. Abillance.com provides areas and levels (such as Business Models, Roles, Rules, Team, Contracts, Certificates) where nearly any legal frame can be projected and distributed by systemic means. One of the main benefits of the system is the ability to create and distribute detailed process templates which can carry all necessary legal codes to everyday work practice. The templates can ensure the process inclusion of best practices, e.g. industry required standards, stakeholders’ interests and general contractual conditions.

Contractual Conditions

Similar to a work process, contractual conditions can be embedded and distributed in Abillance.com by means of shared structures. Using contractual relationship outline, contractual definitions in work process, and task & role configuration forms, one can carry out effective conditions for nearly any  type of a partnership.

Procurement

Users can plan and execute their methods of procurement. Some levels of access to the appropriate sections (tasks) can be temporarily granted to perspective partners for receiving calls for proposals, terms & conditions, submitting and assessing proposals, and negotiate prices. Additionally, Abillance.com offers an electronic auction system capable of automated evaluation and positioning of the auction contenders on the basis of their price bidding.

Team Setup

Once, the corporate and project participants are selected, their teams can be set. Abillance.com offers several tools for comprehensive team structuring such as: tree graph with hierarchal links among teammates, precise definitions of their corporate and project identities, and access areas & levels. The authority to delegate people in teams can either be distributed or centralised depending upon the nature of a project and chosen methodology. Team in Abillance.com has a scalable value. It can constitute 2 or 3 people assigned to a single task or a relatively big group responsible for multiple projects. Teams are usually bound to the content of their work so their hierarchy is similar to the hierarchy of a chosen work process, although Abillance.com can accommodate different arrangements as well.

Team Management

Delegating, changing, moving, removing or replacing a teammate in Abillance.com is a matter of a few easy-to-do steps. The impacts on what a teammate can or cannot see, or do, are immediate and can influence a business process in the most complex as well as detailed sense. Abillance.com allows even for removing a teammate without losing any of his/her work. The team management, unlike in many traditional business environments, doesn’t directly affect the continuity of a work process, which, in the case of fast paced and changeable conditions of a project, can be one of critical advantages.

Strategic & Tactical Planning

Following upon previous strategic considerations, well executable planning consists of defined links connecting the 'big complex' goals with the 'small' tasks that are performed on a daily or weekly basis. Such planning usually form work divisions, subdivisions and sub-subdivisions, each with its own completion criteria to meet and an objective to achieve. Abillance.com offers flexible ways and opportunities for effective modelling of a work process. In the planning menu, users can chose from areas & levels such as: Procurement, Contracts, Roles, Rules, and Work Process to model corresponding tasks, their hierarchies and time values. Abillance.com accommodates both – rigid and flexible approaches to planning. The stress is on practicality in as many project environments as possible.

Strategic Alignment

Sharing ideas, goals, visions, missions and business drivers between an organisation and its employees, and similarly among project participants, can deliver higher productivity. The ability to align the goals of an organisation with the personal goals of engaged participants will increase productivity even further. To support this process, Abillance.com provides 3 major frames of reference linked and aligned throughout a systemic environment: Me, Project, Organisation. Engaged individuals can see exactly what goal they are to achieve by participating in a project and for which organisation, and (ideally) how this goal will impact upon the achievements of their personal goals. In the module Me, each participant can see the list of his/her tasks and their project & corporate associations including 'higher' goal definitions. It would be delusory thinking that Abillance.com will automatically resolve peoples’ needs for strategic alignment, though whether taken or not, the opportunity is there.

Project Planning & Execution

This is the world of your work and what you can achieve by means of projects. You can distribute your business drivers throughout work areas, stages, and tasks. You can change complex processes almost at a key stroke. You can set rules fairly flexible or very tight. You can let your people split their work into segments or keep it centralised. You can easily maintain all required standards supported by comprehensive reporting, record and file management.You can collaborate with as many parties as you need without losing control and integrity.

Work Execution Structure (Modelling Options)

Planning and executing work in a project environment can become some of the most complex tasks in business. In principle, the elements of a business process can be structured into work areas, stages and tasks. Abillance.com brings two main advantages to this approach: Automated distribution of repetitive components between planning and work execution phases, and flexible use of the process building blocks. The former is based on fast and effective mirroring between project planning and execution, the later on the possibilities of various process setups. In Abillance.com, tactical tasks can become operational tasks, projects can be linked to tasks and organisations, tasks can be copied or moved between projects, and stages & work areas can be combined to suit a specific purpose.

Process & Change Management

Managing business means managing constant change in business process. Whenever change is required, original planning needs to be revised. Abillance.com is primarily a system for effective change management. All rights, rules, roles, teams, projects, engagements, work areas, stages, tasks, timing can be created, changed, moved or removed almost at a key stroke. Tasks can even be copied and pasted between projects. Changing a work process, users can rely upon multiplicity of tools and ways. The only limits are levels of access and permissions that reflect the constellation of participatints' interests.

Review & Reporting

In Abillance.com, everything, set in a hierarchy from above, is seen from above. An organisation which delegates people into a shared project environment has access to what they create and do within the spheres of their delegated authorities. Additionally, every task has formatted frames for reporting, comments and reviews on the task progress and completion. Such an environment can become almost absolutely transparent for anyone who wants to see.

File & Record Management

Files, documents and records should support and accompany work, not the opposite way. In the system Abillance.com, files, documents and records are bound to their tasks. Along with a task progress, new updated versions of files are attached and changes recorded. In the end, a complete map of records on the accomplished work can be produced. Every step, change or evolution is traceable. Personal responsibility is not something that could be avoided. Abillance.com is a system particularly favourable to the environments with high quality assurance demands, a powerful tool in hands of ISO Standardisators, and the advantage to any dispute resolutions.

Process Phasing & Segmentation

Business process is a chain structure of linked tasks. It is not efficient, sometimes even not feasible, to direct and coordinate everything from one centre. Business process needs to be delegated. Each next one in the chain of command should have assigned certain authorities and responsibilities related to his/her sphere of expertise. These can be delegated by logical process phasing and segmentation. Abillance.com effectively applies two main principles of chain distribution of rights, rules and procedures. Those are Hereditary Templates and Transitive Rights.

Access & Security Measures

Abillance.com is an online environment. That naturally includes accessibility with no security compromise. That is why the user certificates, usernames and passwords are only assigned to individual persons and are non-transferable. Data entered into Abillance.com are stored in the secured server in UK and backed up every 20 minutes. All work in Abillance.com is saved continuously. In the case of any unforeseen interruption, no record is lost. Actions and responsibilities are traceable and accountible individually.