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Process Mapping vs. Documentation: What You Need to Know

Process mapping is critical for efficient operations. These maps offer visual representation of required inputs and outputs, enhancing communication with stakeholders and making it easier to manage processes from start-to-finish. Many organizations use process maps in continuous improvement exercises, following the flow to pinpoint inefficiencies. Business leaders often believe that process

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Eliminating Workflow Bottlenecks From Your Enterprise Processes

Julia Saunders
30th Aug 2017
Workflow

Workflow bottlenecks can mean a significant loss of time, money and resources for your organization. While one person or department is madly rushing to complete an overwhelming workload, staff members responsible for the next step in the process are idle. This lack of efficiency impacts more than payroll costs. Bottlenecks

Dynaforms: What are Dynamic Forms in Workflow Management?

Julia Saunders
17th Aug 2017
DynaForm

Gathering required forms is one of the biggest obstacles to an efficient workflow. Organizational leaders know that the lag time between distributing documents and getting them back from business partners can take weeks, delaying the company’s ability to start on the job. New technology is revolutionizing the process of collecting, sharing

How to Simplify the Contract Management Process

Julia Saunders
20th Jul 2017
Workflow

Negotiating contracts is critical to business success, as the terms of the agreement spell out the details of high-value transactions. A single misstep can result in serious financial loss. Historically, the contract management process has been ad-hoc, with various areas of the organization following different guidelines. Most final documents were

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Important Features of Document Workflow Management Systems

Julia Saunders
21st Jun 2017
Workflow

Important Features of Document Workflow Management Systems Record-keeping has long been an expensive and time-consuming part of doing business. Every company has a collection of documents that have to be organized and stored. Heavily-regulated industries face an even bigger burden than similar-sized peers in other lines of work. Electronic documents are

Benefits of Automating your Engineering Change Order Process

Julia Saunders
8th Sep 2017
Automation

Tracking engineering change requests and ensuring successful implementation is a complex endeavor for businesses of every size. There are a variety of stakeholders involved in requesting, approving and executing change requests, making it simple for details to fall through the cracks. Fortunately, advanced business process management technology offers an opportunity

Getting Started With Business Process Reengineering

Incremental process improvements play an important role in keeping production flowing smoothly. However, when an entire system has become obsolete, it is time for complete business process reengineering (BPR). The purpose of business process reengineering is to completely overhaul existing methods. Business processes are redesigned from the ground up with a

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HR Onboarding Solutions: Top Benefits of Using HR Process Automation

Brian Reale
9th Aug 2017
Automation

Employee turnover is becoming a major obstacle for organizations focused on innovation, productivity and overall profitability. The recruiting expense of replacing skilled workers is just the beginning. Ramp-up time, training and department-wide disengagement all add to the cost of an employee resignation. A recent research report from the Aberdeen Group

Top 5 Signs Your Organization Needs a BPM and Workflow Management System

Julia Saunders
6th Jul 2017
BPM

Do you have the feeling that you never know the status of processes and workflows in your business? Wish you had greater control and visibility on all those pesky paperwork or excel related process forms? Ever get emails for purchase requests or leave requests and wonder – “what do I

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The difference between Business Decision Management and Business Process Management

Most companies are familiar with the theories of business process management (BPM). New tools are making it possible to automate process flow to maximize efficiency and increase outputs. However, business decision management (BDM) is not implemented as broadly. These two concepts are entirely separate yet complementary. Innovative organizations use both to

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