{"id":931,"date":"2013-06-07T12:19:04","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T11:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skillsfinder.info\/?p=931"},"modified":"2014-03-08T13:16:40","modified_gmt":"2014-03-08T13:16:40","slug":"welcome-to-the-skillsfinder-smartsheet-focused-blog-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smarterbusinessprocesses.com\/welcome-to-the-skillsfinder-smartsheet-focused-blog-page\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Skillsfinder-Smartsheet focused Blog page","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"

Firstly, let me declare my interest in Smartsheet. \u00a0Eighteen months ago, while researching cloud based project and planning solutions, task list, calendars, Gantt charts etc., with the help of a few colleagues, we concluded Smartsheet was the best on offer and sensibly priced, e.g. a medium sized company with 3 senior managers could have licences for \u00a334.95 pm or \u00a3345 for the year and that would allow them to collaborate with unlimited fellow workers and clients.\u00a0\"\"

Since then, I have been involved in helping a number of clients to implement \u00a0Smartsheet and see the results, which are mainly focused on how Smartsheet has allowed them to collaborate across teams, with clients, contractors, as never before with flat spreadsheets.<\/p>\n

The BIG question for many has been could Smartsheet, \u00a0a cloud based solution, \u00a0be used as a serious planning tool, despite the lack of some of the detailed resource planning \u00a0available in the more traditional and \u00a0expensive solutions. \u00a0Microsoft \u00a0Project is the typical benchmark on this.<\/p>\n

The answer comes in from 100% buy in of users, who actually claim to LOVE Smartsheet, YES, LOVE!<\/p>\n

This against a background \u00a0history in many organisations of planning systems being implemented, often at great cost, but for a variety of reasons, they fail to get their users to BUY-IN to their regular daily use.<\/p>\n

Given their time again, these organisations, would have maybe chosen a less capable system that achieved the majority of their requirements and was used with enthusiasm, \u00a0in preference to one that COULD have given them 100% technical capability but achieved a poor uptake AND with the associated cost savings<\/p>\n

How come Smartsheet is so well liked? They are constantly developing and improving the product in response to feedback requests and these solutions address real world problems, such as really cool ideas from Smartsheet on how to make our lives easier and get more benefit from the effort we put in at work:<\/p>\n

Capturing ideas on a mobile web form<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong> I use a Smartsheet web form to enter my business expenses as they crop up,\"\"

Good ideas have a habit of arriving at inconvenient moments, usually when pen and paper are unavailable or using a keyboard is perilous. A technology I use to get around this is Apple iOS voice to text. On the iPhone, whenever you\u2019re presented with a text box iOS almost always includes a microphone icon. That means, when you\u2019re on the go, you can record a new idea with the same ease as conducting a Google voice search. Read the rest\u2026<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.smartsheet.com\/blog\/capture-ideas-mobile-web-form?s=10<\/a><\/p>\n

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Smartsheet Loves Mobile<\/a> \"\"