Automating your business

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Automating Your Business Automating your business seems to be a popular catch phrase of the modern business world, but what exactly does it mean? And, perhaps more importantly for business owners, how do you accomplish automation in your business? The definition of automating processes of the business is simple enough to understand but can be more difficult to implement into a company’s day to day operation. Automating aspects of the business means transferring manual processes performed by employees to automated methods that complete the same task.

Overly Simplified Automation An overly simplified example of automation in business that nearly all companies have already instituted can be seen through the use of email. In the past, companies and managers issued written or typed memos that would inform employees of important information, but now the days of handwritten memos or hard copy memos of any kind are long gone as business have adopted inner office email or instant messaging to accomplish the same task. Again, the above example is perhaps too simple to point to the overall benefit that automation can have on a business, but nonetheless one can see how automating such routine tasks as inter-office memos can boost efficiency. But what are some other ways to implement additional automation into the office?

Organizing Automated Advancements First, it is vitally important to take the time to plan and organize automated advancements before launching them directly into the office. Taking the time to plan and think through automations to your workplace will help you to focus only on those services and technologies that will actually improve your business instead of simply automating the workplace for automations sake. To do this you will need to consider thoroughly what aspects to your business could be improved through the implementation of an automated tool. Each business will be different, but to get you thinking consider your manufacture, order fulfillment, and billing processes and what aspects to those actions cause headaches and issues; then all that is left is to consider which automated process could be used as a substitute or aid in completing those processes more effectively.


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