Workload Allocation Management
Plan, monitor and manage balanced, equitable workloads.
Simitive WAMS is a unique modelling platform to support the planning, ongoing monitoring and management of balanced, efficient and equitable workloads across your university.
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Manage all workloads
WAMS is completely configurable to support all of the different needs of the university, its faculties, schools, departments and subjects.
Single system
Support all of the variations within a single system.
Roles
Manage and allocate every activity and role.
Control
Control at university, faculty, school, department and subject level.
Diversity
Support multiple frameworks and models each year.
Collaboration
Fully support shared, team, external or fractional delivery.
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Simplify and manage complexity
WAMS enables the calculation of the most complex activities and tariffs within a simple, manageable and transparent process.
- Create as many different calculations as needed.
- Calculate effort required and effort allocated.
- Use standard components for faster creation of calculations.
- Test calculations before using.
- Supports if, else, and, or, but, conditional mathematical and logical calculations.
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Transparency
WAMS provides comparative views of peer groups to enable transparency of equitable workloads.
Group views
Peer group views can be turned on or off at university or department levels.
Options
Fully detailed, anonymous and normalised options.
Accessibility
Graphical and tabular views for accessibility.
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Analytics
Built-in real-time analytics dashboards provide graphical views of progress and outcomes.
- Display both provisional and published allocations.
- Allow comparative views across schools, departments and subject areas.
- View planned versus actual allocations.
- See workload agreement across university, schools, departments and subject areas.
- Analyse workload range distribution.
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Compliance and reporting
WAMS provides the data required for statutory reporting and cost analysis.
- All activities coded correctly for reporting and cost analysis.
- Data for TRAC, FEC reporting as standard.
- Reporting of work against contracted time.
- View allocations against agreed time division for teaching, research or any activity.
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Academic engagement
WAMS gives staff absolute clarity and transparency on their workload and allows them to report errors or changes.
- Workload is published to staff at key points in the year.
- Emails and prompts ensure awareness.
- Staff respond in detail to their allocations.
- Audit trail of publishing, changes and responses.
- Enables staff to compare current and previous workloads.
- Dashboards show who has engaged or not.
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Scenario modelling
WAMS enables the rapid modelling of scenarios to inform strategic decision making.
- Modelling years enable anything to be changed and the resulting impact on resources easily visualised.
- Multi-year student-number modelling supports look-ahead planning.
- Model the impact of curriculum and delivery changes.
- Allow each school to do their own modelling and consolidate for university planning.
In their words
What universities tell us about WAMS.
WAMS makes us data-rich.
We felt it had been created by a development team who listened to universities and really understood the complexity and nuance of academic workload allocation and management.
WAMS has helped us achieve our objectives in a number of ways because we are a data-led institution and use data to make evidence-based decisions.
Modelling using WAMS enables us to do things faster.
Read the full WAMS case studies
Implementation
Get up and running with confidence.
Implementation and support
Whatever stage you are at and whatever challenges you face, the Simitive team is available to help. If you don't know where to start, talk to us about the Resource Planning Maturity Model which provides a clear pathway and milestones to meeting your needs and ambitions.
WAMS is available as a service
If you are worried about time and internal resources, Simitive can administer, manage or completely outsource your workload management. WAMS as a service allows you to realise the benefits quickly, even if you don't have the resource or expertise immediately available.
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