The TCO System helps with each of the steps ensuring the team leader(s) have all the information they need to get the project to a successful conclusion.

With the TCO System it is possible to:

1. Define the result(s) wanted. (vision)
2. Develop a detailed plan of action. Identify the steps and activities required to achieve the objectives.
3. Compile a list of participants and assign responsibilitity.
4. Rough out your schedule of activities. Work out a sequence of what is to be done when.
5. Track the progress of each step and activity. Each participant can contribute to a diary of progress, share information and solicit help from co-workers to ensure the quality and completion of each activity.
6. Verify and sign off on each activity ensuring the agreed success factors. This ensures the quality for each step in the process of completion.
7. Follow through and follow up on action to get the job(s) done. Easily request and obtain updates from each team member.
8. Use the easy tools for administration of meetings and provide status reports on progress to management.
9. Delivery, acceptance and sign off are easily controled clearly indicated in the TCO System so there is no misunderstanding about what is finished and what is not.
10. At the end of each project there is a complete history retained for future reference. Lessons learned can be researched and recalled and used on similar projects in the future.

Reduce operating overhead.
With the TCO System, certain aspects of your overhead can be drastically reduced. The TCO System delivers one comprehensive repository of information retained in a single system. This provides a single point of reference where information supporting a project or program is kept and all team members refer to the same reference material. Considerable time across the whole team is saved by avoiding the need to search in files and directories stored on shared or personal drives and easily subject to deletion or movement.

Licensing costs are for what you use. No hidden back door costs or add on fees. The TCO System is built on very robust, popular and powerful open source software and databases which eliminates costly licensing fees.

Twice per year a release of upgrades and changes are installed on your system as part of our licensing agreement. If you want specific changes or added features, participate in a TCOS user group with like minded customers and get the changes you think are important and only the things your group want to pay for. By joining a TCO Systems user group you tell us what you want in the next and future releases. You recommend the priorities so we stay on track and deliver what the customer wants.

Team members can communicate with each other using the internal email feature. This feature allows the sender to say what has to be said and automatically provides a quick reference to the source documents including attachments relevant to the subject. This feature enables the recipient to quickly access the necessary background and add relevant new information and quickly respond to the originator. This feature alone will save each team member hours of work while increasing the accuracy of information being referenced by team members.

The TCO System's central repository allows team members to be informed of work in progress and to access historical information quickly. No need to search for documents in shared folders or hard copy files.

With information available to team members from a single source everyone on the team references the same versions of source documents. This greatly reduces the risk of error as well as redundant effort on work already completed by other team members.

The TCO System enables the manager to include their clients, suppliers and all team members in developing high quality solutions.

Managers can allow a little access or a lot of access depending on the role the individual representatives will play on any or all assignments. Inclusive participation can produce fully acceptable solutions by allowing client management to satisfy their concerns earlier in the development process and prevent costly delays or recycling after milestones have been delivered.

Managers can integrate all of their assignments and resources into a single management system. This allows the manager to control the utilization of resources across all their projects and to easily identify where issues are before they become critical. The separation between projects, programs or cases is well defined by the system but allows the manager to oversee and run all of these from a single common set of menus.

Individual team members are also able to manage their work on several assignments with different teams working in different branches from the same single set of menus. The TCO System allows them to oversee all of their responsibilities as well as to navigate back and forth between jobs maintaining a clear and distinct line of separation between each project, program or case.
This feature saves time and effort and allows the team members to provide more energy and quality to the work they are doing.

When required and depending on the organization of allocated work, the manager can easily and quickly transfer an assignment from one work group to another thereby saving considerable ovehead and enabling the new group to quickly grasp the requirement and history and allow them to pick up the ball and complete the process without lengthy delay.

The efficiencies built into the TCO System give the manager control over their assignments and their successful completion.

Managing your teams is easy with the TCO System. Resource utilization reports combined with estimated and actual time reporting allows the manager to see just how busy his resources are, where they are being used and what the gaps are in order to assign new responsibilities or to un-assign responsibilities from team members that are carrying too much of the load.

The advantages that come with an install of the TCO System make it easy for a manager to accomplish more with the same or fewer resources. Work flows are smoother, communication channels are faster, team members are focused on what they have to do and when.

The central repository of information makes it possible to share information rather than duplicate effort getting the same information.

History is just a few clicks away to help plan future activities.

Meetings are a breeze because everyone comes with up to date information. Surprises are reduced along with delays due to oversight.

Managers get the information they need from team members quickly and in writing.

Standard status reporting makes that task so much easier and faster. Executive can look over a project and ask the right questions or give the right compliments. This gives managers and team members the incentives they need to keep going, do more and do great work.

Time is the greatest savings any manager can expect when the TCO System is in place and operating.

Very few people are insulated from the current economic crisis. As the impact of what is going on rapidly spreads across and down the various business sectors we have two choices:

a) Resign ourselves to what happens or
b) Resolve ourselves to survive.

Tough times call for extra effort and a change in habit. If our existing ways of doing work are not producing the results we need then perhaps we need to change. Perhaps our work habits need to be tightened up and our actions require extra exertion of effort and if we need to set aside our feelings and preconceptions in order to succeed, then so be it.

When the job calls for a new level of professionalism then the TCO System is a tool you can use to help you and your team weather this storm. More focus, more effort, increased performance and a greater return for those efforts are what you can expect.

The TCO System empowers management to plan their work, assign responsibility and expect results. The TCO System enables the manager to oversee what is being done and keep the team(s) focused without interfering or disturbing those things that are going well but catching and stopping those things that are taking away from what has to be done.

Being tough on wasted effort and time is something the TCO System really does well.

Now is not the time for mild manners and gentle ways

Now is the time to do what you need to do to stay the course and keep on going.

Tough times call for resolve and everyone needs to do what they are suppose to do in order to keep on going. If team members don’t know what they need to do then management must take the lead and get everyone on task. Management need to make the hard decisions. Decisions based on comprehensive and accurate information they have at hand and then do what needs to be done.

The advantages that come with the TCO System make it possible for management to monitor the vital signs of progress, control and efficiency of a project or program. Managers can easily determine the weak spots and the strong spots and adjust the team and work accordingly.

With the TCO System information is updated in real time and this will help management prevent a crisis rather than react to one.

With the TCO System managers can quickly identify where extra attention is required and apply that attention. Managers can identify the weak links and shore those up or make even harder decisions in order to save the boat and the rest of the crew.

With the TCO System, management have the whole picture. They can look at how things are progressing and see where things might be falling down.

Management can keep their finger on the pulse and monitor progress. With the TCO System management have the tools to keep information current so they can make those tough decisions when necessary.