Automated Workflows Help Increase Inventory Turns, Reduce Excesses
Inventory turnover is important for many reasons, with the main one being that so many businesses have so much money tied up in inventory. Excess inventory that isn’t sold cuts into profits. Another problem with excess inventory is that consumer tastes change. What was once a hot item may not be so in six months, […]
The Importance of Documenting Workflow Creation for Sharing
One of the most positive “side effects” of creating an automated workflow to better manage a business process is that it often inspires ideas for creating other helpful automated workflows. Suppose one department creates a workflow for tracking departmental employee training. Other departments, upon seeing the benefits of such a workflow, may conclude that their […]
Your Workflow Software Is the Key to Successful Digital Process Automation
Business process management, or BPM, involves improving a business process by analyzing it, modeling how it might work under various conditions, and ultimately making it better from end to end. BPM may or may not involve automation or making a process “digital.” Digital process automation, or DPA, is about taking business process management to another […]
Online Forms vs. Paper Forms: There’s Simply No Contest
Business and forms go together and have done so for a century or more. It’s easy for businesses, particularly those that have been around for a long time, to stick with tried and true ways of doing things. This may unfortunately mean using paper forms even after significantly better alternatives exist. If your business or […]
Innovation of Form and Innovation of Substance: How Workflows Help
It doesn’t matter how simple your business is. There are a lot of moving parts involved in delivering something to the customer. Not only must you produce the product or service, you have to keep track of supplies and expenses, often maintain a complex supply chain, and listen to both individual customers and the overall […]
Quality Over Quantity: Getting the Most from Your Online Forms
You don’t have to operate an e-commerce business or a B2B business to use online forms. Online forms are a fact of life for real estate businesses, law firms, consultancies, and countless other types of businesses. It’s probably safe to say that most types of businesses with any type of online presence can benefit from […]
How Automated Workflows Build Institutional Archives and Repositories
Over time, businesses and other organizations build up a “knowledge base” from the experiences of the people who work there. This so-called institutional knowledge is apart from the knowledge required to operate the business, and may include things like technical presentations at conferences, help documents created by long-time employees for new people, and publications about […]
Make Forms and Workflows More Powerful by Sharing Data
Think about how much data the typical business collects (or has the potential to collect) every day. Sometimes, data that may seem perfectly mundane may have atypical uses that can take your business operations to the next level. For example, suppose you have a social media advertising team responsible for placing ads on social platforms […]
Relocating? Consider How Workflows Work in Your New Space.
Moving your business into a new space is both exciting and a bit scary. It represents a fundamental change of the physical space in which your business will operate, and you have the potential to make the most of the changes when planning your move. Naturally, you will coordinate with movers, and have a plan […]
Using Workflow Software for Process Mapping
Process mapping is essentially creation of a flowchart. You don’t necessarily have to know what the different shapes of various flowchart elements mean to create a process map, but it can be helpful. Think of a very simple process you use at work, such as the process of admitting a visitor to the workplace. Steps […]
