Workflow Automation

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There are a lot of different phrases we use to basically say one thing: we are providing a high quality product. At the end of the day, that’s really the most important thing customers care about. But it’s easy to say you’re high quality. Everybody does. What are you doing to ensure that quality in your products?

Quality assurance is one of the most important functions of any company. In people, products and performance we are measured … Continue Reading

The Company
A leading manufacturer of smart cards, security cards, and cell phone data cards. The company owns 75% of the worldwide market for their product line.

The Company Need
This company needed a convenient way to grant information access and permissions to new hires and existing employees who were assigned to new positions. Their existing process involved physically tracking down a series of individuals to obtain different levels of approval. Depending on the subject position and its responsibilities in the organization, that could mean a whole different group of people with each separate hire or job change. … Continue Reading

Heading up a company’s Human Resources Department has to be a lot like being the GM on a pro football team. You’re constantly scouting and recruiting, interviewing, evaluating your current work force, keeping your eyes peeled for additions or improvements in the “free agent” pool and monitoring the next “draft class”. But unlike a football team, which conducts its primary personnel changes in a limited time frame between spring and mid-summer, an HR director is constantly in the mode to bring on new talent.

With all of that year-round responsibility, it can be difficult to track the … Continue Reading

Anyone who has spent any amount of time in an office has experienced the headaches associated with document routing. Beyond the plain hassles of following a document through multiple checkpoints in a busy office, there’s always that one bottleneck guy that throws a hiccup into things. With no inherent accountability, document routing and approval processes are a disaster. Vacations, confusion, complicated steps and just plain old hectic schedules can all throw a monkey wrench in the document approval process. Business process management can help relieve that.

Business process management … Continue Reading

As I mentioned in my first post, workflow automation has not always been available for small business. It just wasn’t cost effective enough to be produced and marketed to a small business budget. But time and technology change things. Now, all business stands to benefit from workflow automation. I am going to talk about the reasons why workflow automation is important to the ultimate success of all companies. If you’re already currently practicing some form of workflow automation, congratulations! Maybe this post will teach you how to take further advantage. If you’re … Continue Reading

Hi! Welcome to the first post at AutomateYourWorkflow.com! This new blog will be 100% focused on topics associated with workflow automation and business process management.

The business world is now faster paced than ever before, largely due to technology. It’s kinda funny that we marvel over how much time each new gadget will save us, and then proceed to cram that “saved time” full of other deadlines and things to keep us busy. The point is, when you’re moving at the pace we are in 2007, mistakes happen and steps get missed. That’s … Continue Reading