Sticky Notes and Old Dusty Totes: The Task Management Crisis in Childcare Centers By Jim Shields, Enterprise Architect @enrollsmart It's been quite a while since we've updated our blog. The fall was very busy with implementations, consultations, beta tests and more. In the time since we last posted in this blog, here are some things we've learned about the inner workings of hundreds of childcare centers across America: 1. Task management methods in nearly all of the childcare centers we spoke with are still heavily dependent on paper and face-to-face communication. 2. For nearly all of the projects and tasked we were involved in at childcare centers, there was a significant lack of follow through in a timely manner simply because communication relied so heavily on paper and meetings. For example, we attended weekly staff meetings at a number of centers for which we are engaged in technology projects and, we tracked the progress of projects and duties ass
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