Message of the Week 07 - 11 August 2023
Week 32
Efficiency through automation
Kyocera’s Twelve Management Principles uses the question "What is the right thing to do as a human being?" as the most basic decision-making criteria. These principles ensure that we maintain an ethical and humane approach, while maximising business potential. Number five of these principles, “Maximise revenues and minimise expenses” speaks to how we believe in working smart, an ethos we extend to our customers’ businesses through smart information management systems which reduce paperwork, operational costs and boosts productivity.
When we say we offer efficiency through automation, it sounds like a shopping list of niceties instead of hardcore business benefits. Decreasing manual input errors, increasing speed of delivery, boosting quality, and simplify business processes are key ways to improve productivity and efficiency.
By tailoring the flow of data and documents throughout our customers’ businesses, we not only streamline processes, but we help to build a smart information management system which adds a lot more business benefits, including:
- Cost savings through simplified processes and less paper usage.
- Increased accuracy and fewer lost or misplaced documents.
- Enhanced compliance through clear, transparent audit trails.
- Increased automation of repetitive, boring tasks.
- Reliability and flexibility to accommodate remote and mobile employees.
- Real-time visibility - implementing real-time visibility is the first step toward lowering costs.
- Increased efficiency enables operating at maximum efficiency, keeping all important documents in one place.
- Reduced risks eliminates the risk of human error from many processes.
I personally get a kick out of helping customers to minimise their paper-based processes, centralising and coordinating information flows and minimising human interventions and errors. It is gratifying and rewarding to see how our information management systems help our customers be more time efficient and how productivity is boosted in other areas of their businesses. All of which adds up to achieving, living and sharing our fifth principle “Maximise revenues and minimise expenses”.