Accountability is a key differentiator for success. A strong culture of accountability shifts employees from being reactive to being proactive. The results are consistent performance and high quality production. Lack of accountability will cost your company time and money.

On the most basic level employees are ultimately responsible for two things. Following company rules and completing assigned tasks while acting responsibly and following through with commitments. The most successful companies instill accountability in both areas.

A culture of accountability requires the ability to clarify responsibilities and clearly communicate company rules through policies and procedures.

Thoroughly documenting corporate polices and procedures is a difficult task that few companies complete effectively. Updating this material and keeping it relevant is even more difficult. Company manuals that are maintained in hard copy format require significant resources to update. In some situations an individual or team must be dedicated to the process of making sure each employee has the latest information. When a policy update requires individual compliance in the form of a signature these signature forms must be maintained as well.

KM Executive provides a tool to digitally maintain a complete electronic reference of policies and procedures. This information is input into KMx as documents. Each policy or procedure can be represented by an individual document. Documents can be assigned to the job title you create. After a document is assigned to a job title all employees with that job title are responsible to comply with the document. Compliance is confirmed by a digital signature that is requested when the document is loaded. Each time a document is revised compliance is required again. Users that have been assigned a new or revised document are notified on their dashboard that compliance is required. At any time a user can view their dashboard to see a list of all documents that have been assigned to them. The status of the document is noted in this list so a user can easily identify documents that are under revision or documents that required their compliance.

All versions of a document are archived for future reference and an assigned user may compare versions to see exactly what has changed with a new revision.

A compliance report is also available to easily identify documents that have not been complied with by document number or by specific employee.

These tools decrease the amount of time it takes to ensure employees have the most current information available about company policies and procedures. The result is a stronger culture of accountability within your organization that will allow you to innovate quickly and frequently, bypassing the timely distribution and compliance process required for a hard copy system.

Policies and procedures are integrated into daily workflow with the powerful task and project management #1153 KMX Applications - Manage Projects engine built into KMx. By performing both functions within the same workspace employees can capture discrepancies between the way they work and the way their responsibilities are defined and align the two. Much more than a simple task list, KMX provides tools for assigning tasks with due dates, dependencies, and priorities. Task statistics are tracked to assist managers in following up with task progress and identifying trends.