Workflow Software Helps You Accelerate Recruiting and Hiring
Automated workflows and new employee recruiting go together naturally. The hiring process has a lot of moving parts, but strong workflow management can make sure all the parts work as they should while reducing errors and making the process as efficient as it can be. Other benefits of using automated workflows in the hiring process […]
BPM: Why You Can’t ‘Set It and Forget It’
Business Process Management (BPM) is a broad term that encompasses the many ways we automate and manage business processes to make them as efficient as possible. But sometimes BPM initiatives fall short. There can be many reasons for this. Perhaps the BPM project was driven more by intuition than by hard data. Or maybe the […]
Workflows Help You Manage 3 Critical Elements of Business Reputation
The reputation of your business is an extremely valuable business asset. While it isn’t tangible, or something you could liquidate to raise cash, nonetheless, reputation is essential to sustained success today. In fact, reputation is a key differentiator in a world where consumers have more choices than ever. Reputation also affects the quality of employees […]
Online Forms and Workflows Help Small Businesses Manage Innovation
Innovation has gone from being a “nice extra” for businesses to being essential for success. Competition is fierce, and businesses increasingly set themselves apart through innovation of products, processes, and business models. Rather than pursuing one big idea that will change everything, however, businesses must incorporate innovation into their everyday operations and their corporate culture. […]
How Automated Workflows Can Improve Content Marketing
Content marketing has a lot of moving parts. You have to define your goals, audit your current content to understand what’s performing well, generate new ideas, assign content creation, edit the content, post it, and finally monitor its performance. Automated workflows help companies manage these many tasks while minimizing confusion and keeping the content marketing […]
These Workflow Best Practices Optimize the Purchase Order Process
Purchase orders are documents authorizing a purchase transaction. They include product descriptions, specifications, prices, quantities, dates, terms of payments and other conditions. Using a workflow for purchase orders helps businesses monitor and manage procurement expenses and makes it easy to locate and correct things like duplicate orders. A strong purchase order workflow boosts company efficiency […]
How Automated Workflows Build Success in B2B Sales
B2B buyers typically submit large transactions involving multiple departments and personnel, and these transactions generally take a long time compared to B2C transactions. The B2B seller has processes that B2C businesses don’t have to worry about. For example, the typical B2C e-commerce company doesn’t have to worry about overdue invoices, but they must be tackled […]
BPM or Workflow Software? Why Not a Solution That Does Both?
Workflow management and business process management (BPM) are similar concepts, but they are not exactly the same. Both workflows and BPM address business needs by getting things done more efficiently and with fewer errors, but their roles in a business differ. This naturally leads to the question of whether a business needs separate workflow software […]
IT Asset Management: An Excellent Use for Workflow Software
The term “assets” in the context of an asset management program refers to the tools and equipment that people use to accomplish tasks. For most companies, IT equipment is the most important asset category, but there are other types. For examples, fleet vehicles and tools are assets. In school systems, audio-visual equipment is an asset […]
Great Workflows Help Prevent ‘Shadow Processes’ in Business
So-called shadow processes are ways people accomplish tasks that circumvent standard operating procedures. Sometimes shadow processes emerge because there is no defined process for accomplishing something. Other times, shadow processes enter the picture when official processes are not well thought-out or are antiquated or needlessly bureaucratic. While some shadow processes are more detrimental than others, […]