How a single SaaS platform changed the game for a global health NGO paid Smartsheet
Despite this sense of urgency, the team often found themselves mired in administrative work, sometimes at the expense of more important things. “The most exciting thing about my work is when I go into the communities,” says Stephens. “I get off the plane and I sense that’s where I need to be. Our team wants to be in the field, in the communities. But there’s a lot of administrative work that goes on related to operational research, and we’ve often found ourselves bogged down by these tasks.
In one case, the team needed to find out where they were using a specific diagnostic tool, in how many studies, and with what diseases. “I went to those documents and couldn’t find the information. Then I reached out to two of my coworkers, so there were three of us trying to find something that seemed simple,” says Stephens. “That took us almost three days to do.”
The team uses Smartsheet to track their research portfolio from start to finish. Team members use forms to capture information, then manage projects from beginning to end: executing contracts, scheduling field work, ordering supplies, and more. This has made finding accurate information much faster. “It’s made it a lot easier to just run a report and say, ‘What got completed during this quarter?’ ‘Which projects yielded publications?’ ‘And what are those publications?’” says Toledo.
“Before we had Smartsheet, there was a request from one of our donors to find out what we were doing with a certain tool that we do research on,” says Snyder. “It took three people three days to get the answer. Now it takes me three minutes.” The team also uses dashboards to report on their research findings to partners as well as their donors, in order to define next steps. Says Stephens, “We’re able to extract study details from a sheet and put it into visuals — whether it’s a pie chart, a graph, a map — to demonstrate what we are working on in a visual way.”
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