Use Case: Duplicate Work
Unlocking Efficiency With GainX AI-Powered Duplicate Work Detection
Overview
The GainX Platform is an innovative product that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to identify duplicate work efforts within organizations. Whether it’s redundant projects, overlapping initiatives, or unintentional replication, GainX helps you uncover hidden inefficiencies.
Approach and Value
Advanced Data Integration: GainX seamlessly integrates with various data sources including project management systems, collaboration tools, and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. This holistic data integration provides a comprehensive view of all ongoing tasks, projects, and initiatives.
AI-Driven: GainX employs sophisticated AI algorithms to analyze vast amounts of data and identify patterns that indicate redundancy. By comparing project scopes, timelines, resources, and outputs, the platform can pinpoint areas where similar tasks or projects are being executed independently within different departments or teams.
Organizational Behavior Insights: GainX’s ability to analyze organizational behavior and communication networks allows it to detect informal and formal workflows that might not be documented officially. This includes identifying shadow networks and informal groups that might be duplicating efforts without
realizing it.
Real-Time Monitoring and Reporting: GainX provides real-time monitoring and reporting of ongoing activities. This continuous oversight enables the early detection of duplicate efforts, allowing companies to address these issues promptly before they escalate into significant inefficiencies.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: GainX facilitates cross-functional collaboration by providing insights into how different departments or teams are working on similar tasks. By fostering communication and coordination across the organization, GainX helps eliminate silos that often lead to duplicate work.
Continuous Improvement Loop: GainX creates a feedback loop that continuously refines and improves its detection algorithms based on new or evolving organizational data. This ensures that the platform remains effective in identifying duplicate work as the organization grows and changes.
Summary
GainX’s unique approach is designed to be simple, inexpensive, fast and powerful. For example, for a Top 20 Global Bank, GainX surfaced £31M in duplicate work across 600 projects within days of ingesting data.
Data Requirements
Org Chart, People connectivity scores.*
Project content –or– communications data, Project resourcing data.
Other data sources such as collaboration tools, emails, ERP, are optional.
* For example, the relevancy scores that are easily downloaded from M365.