Business Governance Application

Increase engagement by automate project assignment, based on employee strengths, current workload, and management/team voting system.

Over the last 2 years I have increased the productivity of teams I have led by 187% by programming tools for effective governance.

Problem / Solution

Typical causes of disengagement within a company are [2] :

1. Frustration at the workplace
2. Lack of Information
3. Frustration with Social Environment
4. Lack of Recognition

The project aims to empower employees to increase their workplace participation by increasing their ability to work on high value projects aligned with company goals in a work from home environment. Employees should be used more effectively, playing to their strengths to decrease disengagement within the company. Employees should have good governance, and be frequently recognized for achievements.

Cardano would be ideal for this solution. They will be providing first class governance structures built into the system. They will allow for information to be shared throughout the company decreasing the lack of information. It will allow employees to be recognized for their accomplishments due to the immutable ledger. The voting mechanisms will allow for increased employee participation within a work from home environment, decreasing their frustration in the social environment and the workplace as a whole.

Product

In order to develop this application a package for storing encrypted data on the block-chain will be created, and will be open source. This will be invaluable to the system as a whole, because it is needed for many use cases such as decentralized cloud computing, decentralized cloud storage, local voting and a host of other applications.

Next a side-chain will be created for localized voting. The chain will keep a record of all votes taken, with the voting topic encrypted. You can only vote if your credentials line up (i.e. you are an employee of x company or a citizen of y country). All parties will be given records of previous votes for review, with authorized parties given the encryption key allowing for them to view the topic of said vote. This side-chain will be available for any future projects to utilize whether company focused, government focused, charity focused etc.

The minimum viable product will consist of a user interface showing company / team structure. Under the company there will be a list of objectives & KPIs. Each team will also have their own objectives & KPIs. Each project will be voted on to determine how to what degree it will meet company objectives along with an estimated time to complete the project. Each team will have a list of projects, which will be subdivided into individual tasks. A project leader will be assigned, alongside each task having a leader. Each employee can then be viewed to determine how much value they are bringing to the company in relation to how valuable the projects assigned are and how well they meet deadlines.

Further development milestones outside of this proposal will include :

• Deep learning models to determine which employees would be most effective for each project.
• Automated assignment of task
• Team / Project based messaging system

Funding request

$97849 for 1 year of full time development. There will be a second request at the end of year one. The goal will be self-sustainable after year two, so the goal will be for no further funding requests afterwards.

Timeline

Month 1

• Data architecture developed
• Start development of UI using flutter for phone application
• Start working on storing encryption package

Month 3

• Company structure user interface finalized
• Start Team View user interface

Month 6

• Team View user interface finalized
• Employee View User Interface Started
• Finish encryption package
• Start development of side-chain for voting

Month 8

• Start work on company / employee /entity permission system, likely through Atala PRISM
• Employee View User Interface Finalized
• Actively start marketing product

Month 12

• Finalize permission system
• Start round two funding to work on further development milestones and to hire employees focused on product marketing.
• Finalize side-chain

Month 13

• Heavily Market Product
• Start work on Automated assignment of tasks based on weighted factors, time, how critical the work is to the business, employee total hours booked, deadline, employees productivity score, etc

Month 18

• Complete Automated task assignment
• Heavily market product
• Start business messaging software in the same tech-stack, utilizing Cardano and encrypted data package

KPI

• Features delivered on time : 99%

• Year 1 : Two customers in process of purchasing software

• Year 2 : A minimum of two software purchases

• Year 2 : At least 25 customers in process of purchasing software

• Software implementation shows an increase in employee satisfaction by at least 5% using MVP

IP Policy

Technology developed for side-chain, encryption and voting mechanisms will be open source under MIT License.

Front end & CI/CD code will be Proprietary unless deemed useful for future Cardano developers. If so, then technology will be released under MIT License.

Documentation

1. https://www.gallup.com/workplace/238085/state-american-workplace-report-2017.aspx?utm_source=nurture&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=LegacyNurture_NewsletterSubscription_SOTAWConfirmation&utm_content=DownloadPDF_CTA_2&elqTrackId=479f396df1294a529c79107a6bba6234&elq=031e08182b614dc69119326e1d7e00a4&elqaid=1621&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=
2. https://www.exoplatform.com/blog/2019/03/26/reasons-for-employee-disengagement/
3. https://dynamicsignal.com/2017/04/21/employee-productivity-statistics-every-stat-need-know/