Category: Workflow Automation

Manual tasks like data entry routing aren’t just tedious and repetitive — they take employees away from more engaging work. Employees waste valuable time when they fill out forms and chase down their managers for signatures.

So how can you streamline these tasks and ensure that you (and your employees) don’t get bogged down by monotonous activities? 

The answer is workflow automation.

If your organization is still doing things manually, it’s time for a change. Automating business processes increases overall productivity and eliminates tedious tasks.

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It’s no surprise that over half of business leaders are showing an interest in workflow automation.

After all, 74% of business leaders and employees believe segments of their jobs could be automated. 

Not only would this speed up workflows, but it would also reduce labor costs and increase workflow scalability.

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Employees spend (and waste) a lot of time on repetitive tasks — routing documents to approvers, entering data into spreadsheets, searching for files, etc.

A process that should only take a few days to complete ends up taking weeks or longer. If your business is still doing things manually, it’s time to modernize your processes. 

This is where business process automation or BPA comes in — using technology to automate processes in your organization.

In this article, we’ll explain what business process automation is and how it improves operational efficiency. We’ll also look at ten real-world use cases for BPA.

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Whether you’re managing them or not, every business has processes.

The problem is that if you’re not taking control over how you manage those processes, you won’t be able to spot the blockages in your pipelines.

The result? Extra costs, unexplained delays, and repeated errors.

If these issues sound familiar, it’s time to take control.

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Most businesses could stand to improve their processes.

It’s not that businesses are purposely choosing to run ineffectively, they just don’t realize where they could boost efficiency.

For example, most organizations don’t realize that at least a third of activities for 60% of jobs could be automated. Just imagine what your company could achieve with all that extra time.

To understand where you could streamline operations, you need to dig into the different processes at play within your firm.

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Businesses today have to do more than build great products. They have to refine their workflows and make their operations more efficient to stay competitive.

Much of what gets done in any organization depends on workflows — approving purchase orders, onboarding new hires, processing expense claims, etc. Effective workflow management improves overall productivity and boosts your bottom line.

But with dozens or even hundreds of workflows, how do you manage all of them? And is there software that lets you create and automate your workflows?

In this article, we’ll look at what workflow management is and best practices for managing workflows. We’ll also cover how you can use workflow management software to automate more of your work.

Click the links below to navigate to the section that interests you most:

• What is Workflow Management?
• What Are the Benefits of Managing Workflows?
• Workflow Management vs. Project Management
• 7 Workflow Management Best Practices
• How to Use Workflow Management Software to Automate Your Workflows

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Assuming you’ve got the basics right, the single most important factor in determining the success of your workflow automation project is user adoption.

No matter how well-designed your workflow is and how quickly you deployed it, if your users find it difficult or unpleasant to use, you’ll end up with shelfware.

On the other hand, if delighting your end users is a project priority from day one, you’ll see rapid adoption, expansion, and measurable gains.

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Picture this. You’re famous for your pasta sauce, yet it’s become so popular that you simply can’t produce enough. So, you hire a team of chefs to help you scale production.

But every batch of sauce tastes different, even though everyone uses the same ingredients.

This is likely due to poor process planning. The ingredients list is only half the recipe — you need a solid step-by-step method to create consistent results.

The same goes for your business processes. 

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