Automated Workflows Help You Maximize Preventive Maintenance Benefits
Maintaining the equipment your business uses is an excellent way to reduce waste and extract the most value from your equipment. Yet we can come up for any number of excuses not to practice preventive maintenance – excuses mostly related to “not having the time.” But in reality, practicing preventive maintenance frees up time over […]
Manage Office Safety with Online Forms and Automated Workflows
In some work environments, it’s obvious why safety training and procedures must be extensive and frequently updated. Heavy equipment, potentially hazardous chemicals, and tools that operate at high temperatures necessitate extensive and constant attention to worker safety. But even if your business takes place in an air-conditioned office where the only “heavy equipment” is a […]
Your Online Forms Should Be Easy to Integrate with Other Systems
The benefits of transitioning from using paper forms filled out by hand to using electronic forms can be revolutionary for business. Beyond this transition, however, lie many additional benefits that come from integrating online forms with other business systems and processes. Moving away from paper-based forms is one of the most important first steps in […]
No-Code BPM: Don’t Think of It as ‘Less-Than’
There’s no such thing as “one size fits all” when it comes to business process management (BPM). Analyzing business processes from end to end involves knowing how each step connects to the next, making improvements, testing, and monitoring to ensure quality, consistency, and efficiency. These steps are done differently by different organizations. Likewise, the BPM […]
Workflow vs. Process: How Are They Different?
Every business has processes, whether or not they call them that. If you operate a florist service, you have processes for getting inventory in, processes for creating flower arrangements, and processes for delivering them to people. If you run a medical clinic, you have processes for registering new patients, performing and documenting exams, and for […]
5 Ways to Maximize Value of Your Online Forms to e-Commerce Clients
Online forms are part of the e-commerce experience, though some e-commerce providers put much of the form experience behind the scenes with options like one-click ordering. But even if you don’t offer one-click ordering, you should do what you can to minimize the “friction” between the customer and the “complete order” button. You can minimize […]
5 Use Cases for Automated Workflows You May Not Have Considered
Don’t you want to get the most out of your workflow software? If your workflow software is agile enough, you can use it for far more than the typical HR and document management tasks that so many companies use it for. Automated workflows aren’t just about doing things faster, but about doing things better. Well-designed […]
Overview of How Automated Workflows Work
Workflows (sometimes called processes) occur in every workplace, whether we label them or not. Think about average tasks you do at work. Usually, something triggers a task or series of tasks. Perhaps a form is received, or an email arrives, and that prompts you to schedule something on a calendar, search out a product or […]
Non-Workflow Practices That Make Automated Workflows Better
Defined workflows make sense in every business. Even in creative businesses, there are many tasks that benefit from being turned into repeatable processes. And if those processes can be partially or fully automated, so much the better. From appointment scheduling to keeping the books to getting deliverables out the door, countless business tasks benefit greatly […]
Web Forms and Why They Should Integrate with Your Form Software
Twenty or so years ago, when the internet really started to gain traction with individuals and businesses, we could only imagine some of the ways we use it today. Business visionaries knew that the web could be a tool for transmitting information like no other, and over time we started ordering products and services online, […]