With all the software tools available to us, it's still hard to figure out how work moves in large organizations, the status of projects, and the degree to which personal, team, and company goals are being met. Asana, which is based on a working graph, has that knowledge, and The company has announced a new set of dashboards to give managers the data they need to ensure projects stay on budget and on target.
Alex Hood, Product Manager at Asana, says that reporting capabilities put a wealth of information at the managers' fingertips that previously had to be pulled manually from multiple systems. “We have created executive reports that can live at any height of the company. So no matter [your job], you can have your set of dashboards of things that matter to you instantly just by selecting [in Asana] which teams and projects and portfolios matter to you,” Hood said.
In practice, it's about providing a single view of strategic initiatives, team capacity and budgets.. Hood says it's based on the graphical model that underlies the entire Asana platform, but the company is working to add intelligence. artificial to the process to make it even smarter. “The next step will be to use AI to generate the portfolios of the things you care about instantly. So they're going to be getting smarter, but the fact that they can be at any level across an organization, that's part of this new release.", Dijo.
In addition, the platform now helps people understand the workload for any given skill across the organization to see who has bandwidth and who is overloaded to help businesses more evenly distribute workloads, which Asana refers to as “resource intelligence.” "We're shipping the ability to see anyone's workload across the entire domain or organization... We display [this data] in a very graphical format, so you can see who's burning, who's under capacity, and you can balance the burden between them through an organization that doesn't even share a hierarchy," he said.
Lastly, the company offers a new tool called workflow packages, which is based on what it calls "execution intelligence." It is about providing workflow templates that a company can use to build their own workflows. “We've had workflows in our product for some time, but we're making workflow packages very easy to pull off of the platform. So we're going to have best practice, pre-built workflows where you just plug the pieces in,” he explains.
While none of these tools have AI built in yet, Hood says the next iteration of these tools will. “So we have these three new features that are not AI-based yet. But they are features that point towards the kinds of problems we want to solve with AI, because the next generation that lives on them will be driven by AI.", Dijo.
