Automating processes for business growth
The use of technology to automate routine, repetitive tasks is transforming just about every industry by helping businesses to perform low-level work faster and more cost effectively.
To help your clients reap the benefits of automation, here five ways your clients can reduce waste, inconsistencies, complexity and the number of processes in their business:
1. Support Business Growth
By investing in automation, business leaders give their employees tools to automate previously manual processes. This allows them to achieve more in the same amount of time or less and supports productivity and ultimately business growth.
2. Increase sophistication and innovation
To keep a step ahead of competitors, organisations need to constantly look for ways to expand and improve their offerings. While this is positive, the reality is that adding something new to an existing business model can result in more complex internal systems and processes. Automation can decrease complexities by taking manual routine processes off employees’ desks and giving them more time to focus on more difficult tasks. This can also lead to greater innovation, as employees spend more time focusing on high-value tasks such as strategy and analysis.
3. Automation improves accuracy
Automation greatly reduces the risk of human error — after all, a machine’s concentration or energy never wavers. There are many tasks, such as data transference, that can be performed by automated technology at much greater speeds and accuracy than humans.
4. Automation prepares for the future
Automation is also key in preparing the business for the future. At the beginning of the automation process, companies are likely to start by automating some of the simpler and more repetitive tasks. This experience makes any future automation attempts far easier as the necessary infrastructure, workflows, and cultural changes have already been set up.
As you can see, automation can have significant benefits if the systems are deployed mindfully and strategically. A key part of success is ensuring that management and staff are clear on the strategic objectives behind the automation efforts, so that they understand the value of the automated process and can ensure the goals are achieved.
Ian Dury - Business Support Manager - Kyocera Document Solutions South Africa
