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Workflow Management | Ultimate Guide
Workflow management is an essential part of building an efficient, modern business. In fact, defining, implementing, and maintaining robust workflows is one of the most fundamental, far-reaching aspects of how your business operates. And yet, it’s widely underutilized. So, huge numbers of organizations either don’t meet their goals through workflow management, or else they fail to achieve any real coordination and oversight at all. Today, we’re diving deep into everything you need to know.
Ronan McQuillan
Jan 3, 2023
Workflow Management Tools | 2024 Buyer’s Guide
Workflow management tools are a key part of any digitization effort. To regularize and streamline repeated tasks, we need appropriate technology. If you want to be competitive nowadays, this is basically non-optional. The trouble is that this can mean so many different things in different contexts. For example, managing your ecommerce sales won’t have much in common with managing internal HR tasks. This means that workflow management software also has a wide scope, in terms of potential use cases and functionality.
Ronan McQuillan
Jan 3, 2023
Business Process Management | Ultimate Guide
Business process management is the cornerstone of any successful organization. From early-stage startups to massive enterprises, BPM is the key to efficient, robust, and consistent operations. However, process management is also widely misunderstood. Part of the problem here is that BPM is so ubiquitous. In fact, it touches on just about every aspect of your business, including ops, IT, HR, finances, marketing, sales, legal, and much, much more. Because of this, there’s a huge market for products that want to bill themselves as one-stop-shop BPM platforms.
Ronan McQuillan
Nov 29, 2022
Business Process Management Tools | 2024 Guide + 5 Picks
Choosing business process management tools can be a bit of a minefield. There are a lot of vendors and SaaS tools out there promising the world. Then, we have a corresponding number of companies struggling to achieve the results they expect. If this sounds familiar, you’re in the right place. Today, we’re going to be clearing up some misconceptions around business process management tools. And there’s a lot of ground to cover too.
Ronan McQuillan
Nov 29, 2022
Business Process Analysis | 6-Step Guide
Business process analysis is a critical part of any transformation, improvement, or optimization project. No matter the specific process you’re targeting, thorough analysis is the key to setting effective goals and developing the right strategies to meet them. Despite this, process analysis is something that countless businesses get wrong. In minor cases, this will lead to your efforts falling short of your expected results. In more extreme cases, you might fail to achieve anything at all - or even suffer unintended consequences like avoidable costs, disruption, and wasted time.
Ronan McQuillan
Nov 28, 2022
What is Business Process Optimization? + 5 Tips
Business process optimization is a hot topic these days. In the age of remote workforces, ever-expanding digitalization, and difficult economic pressures, efficiency, transparency, and consistency have never been more important. Today, we’re diving deep into everything you need to know about achieving this across your entire business. The trouble is that, as a term, process optimization is typically used pretty loosely. So, if we want to be successful, we need to start with a clear definition and framework for BPO.
Ronan McQuillan
Nov 28, 2022
Business Process Automation | Ultimate Guide
Business process automation (BPA) is the cornerstone of any efficient organization. After all, what business wouldn’t like to do more with less? In an ever-more competitive business environment, automation is central to long-term success. All the same, BPA is widely misunderstood and under-utilized. There are countless misconceptions out there, including that automation is too expensive, complex, and laborious for all but the biggest companies. This couldn’t be any further from the truth.
Ronan McQuillan
Jul 24, 2022
How to Automate Tasks in 6 Steps
These days, automation is a fact of life. Knowing how to automate tasks is a key element of your efficiency strategy. As businesses seek to cut costs and boost profitability, they inevitably turn to different kinds of automation. This can touch just about any aspect of your business. Most employees spend the majority of their time on repetitive, menial work. This includes the likes of basic communications, data entry, information sharing, and other administrative tasks.
Ronan McQuillan
Jul 24, 2022