Could Digital Process Improvement Increase Productivity in Your Business?
Paperless business solutions seem to have been talked about for a while – but digital process improvement has now reached a stage where the paperless office really is a thing that can be achieved, and to your business’s benefit.
Business management apps can simply and seamlessly render time-consuming work processes more streamlined – and your staff more productive.
We’ve all experienced the “that’s just how we’ve always done it” process: the laborious, inefficient and repetitive tasks that always seem to exist … but which take up time and energy that could be better spent elsewhere.
App development makes these a thing of the past for your business, improving your operational efficiency, providing you with valuable insights and saving your business money.
Why Should I Digitise My Business Processes?
From here in our Coventry app development HQ, we speak with a lot of businesses. We get to know each of them well, and understand how they do business. In our experience, every company has at least one regular task that would benefit from digitisation.
What do we mean by that? Well digitisation is the process by which an app development company develops software that improves how a task is done. The aim is to achieve greater efficiency, more consistency and more control.
We’ve worked with car manufacturers to help them keep track of their parked stock, with coffee vendors to help rationalise remote orders, and construction firms to help them more traceably record on-site issues and inspection data. Every business is different – but they can all benefit from the digitisation of a core task.
Sometimes, of course, many more than one task needs digitising but a good place to start is with a single core job that takes up disproportionate hours, or creates a lot of extra work.
Paperless Business Solutions: A Simple Guide
Imagine you have a form that you use within your business to collect data – maybe it’s essential that the data is collected within a certain timeframe, or shared with specific teams. Maybe you are relying on your staff to remember to collect the data and fill it in accurately, with a certain level of information.
It’s not rocket science to figure out that there must be a better way. But it can be difficult to know where to start: this is how you’ve always done it, right? And who in your business knows how to translate this process into an effective app?
At ImagePlus, we’re not just experts at creating apps and websites – we have a team of people here in Coventry who are experienced with digital process transformation. They get to know your business and its processes – and arrive at an understanding with you of where some digital know-how might help.
For example, when it comes to paper forms our team often comes across some common problems:
- The form can get misplaced or forgotten to be filled in;
- There’s often no consistency with how a form is filled in;
- To analyse any data on the form, it may need to be put into a different format
- And, to create meaningful insights, it needs to be combined with other data.
All of this is work. And in each case, there are digital processes and functionality we can implement to solve each of these problems so that:
- You free up employee time spent on manual processes, enabling you to increase productivity elsewhere;
- You reduce human errors and maximise quality output;
- You create a better experience for your staff – not as frustrating, and never as fiddly.
Business Management Apps: Take The Plunge
As we spoke about recently in our blog Digital Transformation is About Evolution not Revolution, in order to stay competitive businesses need to keep evolving. Transforming repetitive, disjointed, processes into efficient new digital processes can boost productivity, cut costs, and provide valuable insights. And crucially, the barriers to entry are very low.
By partnering with an app development company you can access experts in digitisation instantly. And because so many businesses often encounter the same issues, we can often offer an effective lower cost app based on our previous learnings.
That said, every firm is different, and every team has different needs. The trick with business digitisation is to identify them and then meet them, since the more seamless the solution the easier – and more beneficial – it will be.
In other words, we can propose solutions that suit your needs, and deliver them at the pace of change that works for you. One thing you can be sure of: once you realise the benefits of a new digital process, you’ll not want to go back!
Stop drowning in paper: we’ll design paperless business solutions that deliver ROI … and business management apps that turn onerous tasks into simple jobs. And you’ll save your business time and money. That’s the power of bespoke software and business app development! Drop us a line today to begin your digital process project.
