After reading an article on e-Clippings about IBM and all the technology that their staff is using, I just had to share the data with my supervisor. Immediately our minds race with how can we generate that kind of buy-in and use from our employees. Then I often snap back to reality (and rather abruptly too) that I’m in the heathcare industry and does that mean something different for our staff?
Of our 2500+ staff, only 500 currently have inhouse email (that has got to change!). Of that 500 staff not all of them are at or near a computer every day. Perhaps only 300 are actual desk-jockeys. As Angela White queried early this week…how do I get any of them involved in this technology movement? How do I get excited to use it or even look at it? But then even more stumbling of a thought, do healthcare workers need it (I think so) or do they even have any time to look at it?
I’m become concerned that perhaps I am thinking too corporately with many of the ideas floating in my head that I would like to work on and develop. Perhaps I need to find an entire new model to go after. One that is certainly more geared to the staff member that will only be at a mobile unit or after hours at home. Then one more question develops…after a 12 hours shift how to you get someone to go home and elearn, read the daily news of the organization, blog, wiki, anything.
Maybe my focus should only be on the 300 with computers. Maybe the other 2200 just get left behind, but of course that too seems unreasonable.
What an awful series of questions to post to myself before a long weekend.