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Netra Shetty
Quest Software (Quest Software, Inc.) (NASDAQ: QSFT) is a computer software manufacturer, headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California and founded in 1987. Quest develops, sells, and supports network management, database management, Windows management, end-user service monitoring (Foglight products[2]), application management and virtualization management software products. Its products enable users to develop, deploy, and manage packaged and custom software applications, as well as associated software infrastructure components, such as databases, application servers, operating systems and hypervisors. The company also provides consulting, training, and support services. Quest sells its products and services through its direct sales organization as well as through a variety of partners and resellers worldwide. Quest's virtualization business is serviced primarily through its wholly owned subsidiaries Vizioncore and Provision Networks.
Quest's application management products focus in the ERP, Java EE and Microsoft .NET market spaces. Database management tools include support for MySQL, SQL Server, DB2, Sybase, and Oracle. In the field of computer systems management, the Big Brother product[3] monitors and reports on activities across multiple nodes. In the Windows infrastructure management arena, products cater to Active Directory, Exchange, SharePoint, Windows, System Center and directory service migration users.
CEO
Douglas Garn
Chairman of the Board
Vincent Smith
Director
John Dirks
Director
Paul Sallaberry
Director
Augustine Nieto
Director
Raymond Lane
Director
Kevin Klausmeyer
CFO
Scott Davidson
Worldwide Sales
AF
Virtualization & Monitoring
CE
Legal & Secretary
DC
Information Services
CF
Marketing
SK
Human Resources
JG
Public Sector
PG
Worldwide Marketing
AH
Worldwide Support
KK
Create an Organizational Chart
The first step in controlling your management and discretionary time as well as the time your employees spend 'on task' is to create an organizational chart. Your organizational chart should resemble a pyramid. The pyramid would depict the small business owner or entrepreneur at the pentacle and employees and staff further down the pyramid as their responsibilities diminish.
Draft Job Descriptions and Identify Job Tasks
Drafting job descriptions and identifying corresponding job tasks concretize your operation. While the alignment of task assignments and job descriptions vary from organization to organization, they are helpful in assigning responsibilities and holding the owner and the employee accountable for certain tasks.
Prioritize Each Critical Task
To orient you, the entrepreneur and your employees to specified actions and tasks, it is suggested that the business owner identify the order of priority for each critical task listed on each job description. Another recommendation would be to quantify based upon a 100% scale the time an employee should dedicate his 8 hour day to each group of tasks.
Separate Management Tasks from Vocational Tasks
Now that a job description and corresponding duties have been created, scrutinize them. Begin to identify the managerial tasks listed on the CEO or president's job description and those listed for others.
Make a habit of mentally reviewing your daily 'To Do' checklist and highlight any vocational and entry-level tasks you may have completed throughout the day. A reg-flag should alert you when a majority of your day was spent handling entry-level tasks. A sample of vocational duties follow.
o A CEO re-reading an order to check the accuracy of unit cost and final billing,
o A president proofing the final draft of an annual report for typos,
o A sales vice president taking a repeat order over the phone from a returning customer,
o A manager of a retail store taking inventory in the stock room,
o A president operating the 1 hour photo lab machine.
Set Aside Time for Feedback and Review
To gauge the performance and productivity of every employee, the business owner should routinely meet with each staffer individually to review the job description and corresponding duties.
A checklist to rate employee performance and 'time on task' would be used as a point of discussion and a means by which both might access and adapt the job and tasks assigned, as well as the percentage of time allotted for each critical task.
More importantly though, regular reviews will allow employees to provide valuable input to the owner as to ways in which standardized processes might be improved upon or more creative methods might be introduced to improve efficiencies and quality.
Quest's application management products focus in the ERP, Java EE and Microsoft .NET market spaces. Database management tools include support for MySQL, SQL Server, DB2, Sybase, and Oracle. In the field of computer systems management, the Big Brother product[3] monitors and reports on activities across multiple nodes. In the Windows infrastructure management arena, products cater to Active Directory, Exchange, SharePoint, Windows, System Center and directory service migration users.
CEO
Douglas Garn
Chairman of the Board
Vincent Smith
Director
John Dirks
Director
Paul Sallaberry
Director
Augustine Nieto
Director
Raymond Lane
Director
Kevin Klausmeyer
CFO
Scott Davidson
Worldwide Sales
AF
Virtualization & Monitoring
CE
Legal & Secretary
DC
Information Services
CF
Marketing
SK
Human Resources
JG
Public Sector
PG
Worldwide Marketing
AH
Worldwide Support
KK
Create an Organizational Chart
The first step in controlling your management and discretionary time as well as the time your employees spend 'on task' is to create an organizational chart. Your organizational chart should resemble a pyramid. The pyramid would depict the small business owner or entrepreneur at the pentacle and employees and staff further down the pyramid as their responsibilities diminish.
Draft Job Descriptions and Identify Job Tasks
Drafting job descriptions and identifying corresponding job tasks concretize your operation. While the alignment of task assignments and job descriptions vary from organization to organization, they are helpful in assigning responsibilities and holding the owner and the employee accountable for certain tasks.
Prioritize Each Critical Task
To orient you, the entrepreneur and your employees to specified actions and tasks, it is suggested that the business owner identify the order of priority for each critical task listed on each job description. Another recommendation would be to quantify based upon a 100% scale the time an employee should dedicate his 8 hour day to each group of tasks.
Separate Management Tasks from Vocational Tasks
Now that a job description and corresponding duties have been created, scrutinize them. Begin to identify the managerial tasks listed on the CEO or president's job description and those listed for others.
Make a habit of mentally reviewing your daily 'To Do' checklist and highlight any vocational and entry-level tasks you may have completed throughout the day. A reg-flag should alert you when a majority of your day was spent handling entry-level tasks. A sample of vocational duties follow.
o A CEO re-reading an order to check the accuracy of unit cost and final billing,
o A president proofing the final draft of an annual report for typos,
o A sales vice president taking a repeat order over the phone from a returning customer,
o A manager of a retail store taking inventory in the stock room,
o A president operating the 1 hour photo lab machine.
Set Aside Time for Feedback and Review
To gauge the performance and productivity of every employee, the business owner should routinely meet with each staffer individually to review the job description and corresponding duties.
A checklist to rate employee performance and 'time on task' would be used as a point of discussion and a means by which both might access and adapt the job and tasks assigned, as well as the percentage of time allotted for each critical task.
More importantly though, regular reviews will allow employees to provide valuable input to the owner as to ways in which standardized processes might be improved upon or more creative methods might be introduced to improve efficiencies and quality.