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7 Process Improvement Steps to Streamline Your Business

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. The same goes for your business and the processes within it.

If one process within your business is lagging, it can have a knock-on effect all the way down the chain. 

Take onboarding, for example. 

If your delivery firm is slow to hire new drivers, you can end up with a pile of undelivered orders, battling with angry customers, and shelling out big bucks to store goods that you can’t get out fast enough.

It’s wise, then, to carefully comb through your business processes to work out where you can improve the flow of operations to boost your overall process productivity.

To do this, you’ll need to know the steps and methodologies to coordinate process improvement, without throwing everything off balance.

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The 6 Step Guide to Performing Business Process Analysis

Organizations of all sizes depend on processes to get work done. These can be as simple as following up with a lead or as complex as sending a purchase order.

Your organization likely already has processes in place for individual activities. But when was the last time you reviewed them? How often do you evaluate whether they’re allowing your employees to focus on important tasks or bogging them down with delays?

Inefficient business processes can lead to financial loss and missed deadlines. But identifying bottlenecks in a process and where it can be improved isn’t always easy.

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A Step-By-Step Guide to Improving Business Processes

Business processes play a vital role in any organization. Effective processes streamline individual activities and improve overall efficiency.

To become and remain successful, there needs to be a continuous focus on improving business processes to increase productivity and maintain a high standard of quality.

Making a process more efficient ultimately reduces your workload and streamlines the delivery of a product or service. But how exactly do you improve a business process and what are the steps involved?

In this article, we’ll cover the exact steps for improving business processes. We’ll also show you how to create automated workflows with frevvo’s business process automation software.

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How to Identify Bottlenecks in a Process

Picture a bottle and think about how it gets narrower at the neck to restrict the flow coming out.

A process bottleneck is no different. It restricts the flow of that process.

The trick to streamlining processes to boost productivity is to identify bottlenecks as soon as possible. Unfortunately, that’s not always as easy as it seems.

The problem is that bottlenecks aren’t always obvious — especially if they’ve been around for a long time. 

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Business Process Automation: Your Complete Guide

The business process automation (BPA) market is ballooning at a rate of 10% year-on-year. And frankly, it’s no surprise. Business processes are the lifeblood of any organization and efficient, electronic processes are a must to successfully compete in the modern world.

The huge costs of manual processing delays, human error, and inefficient business systems can no longer be ignored — it’s costing businesses thousands each year.

But how exactly does a business process automation solution address these issues?

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6 Ingenious Business Process Automation Examples

Manual business processes are slowing down your team and costing you money.

Not only are your staff buried in heaps of paperwork, they’re constantly backtracking to fix mistakes and chasing missing signatures, documents, and forms.

But what’s the solution? The answer to lengthy manual processing and endless errors lies in dynamic business process automation.

By digitizing and automating your business processes, you’ll find that you can improve every aspect of your business — from onboarding to financial processing.

Check out these six business process automation examples to see exactly how real businesses are streamlining internal operations with frevvo’s business process automation software.

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7 Workflow Optimization Tactics to Supercharge Your Business

We should be done with the days of paper trails, overflowing filing cabinets, and endless forms. But many organizations are still manually processing employee data, purchase orders, and other routine paperwork.

By recognizing and eliminating manual processes and bottlenecks in your business’ workflows, you can start focusing on the things that matter.

Want to kick your workflows into overdrive and slash the inefficiencies from your system? This article will walk you through seven workflow optimization tactics for streamlining your business processes.

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Top 10 Office Automation Projects to Tackle This Week

In every office, regardless of industry, plenty of processes can be streamlined or automated entirely to reduce the administrative burden on employees. 

For most employees, it’s difficult to remember exactly which steps and rules to follow for each of these processes, especially if they don’t form part of their day-to-day role. 

For instance, many employees struggle to get expense claims right because they’re not accountants and maybe don’t remember the finer details of the company’s expense policies. 

Automation helps to ensure that every step is followed, every time — and speeds up the time it takes to do so. 

Keep reading to learn about all the ways automation can improve operational efficiency, and for our top 10 automation project picks.

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8 Workflow Examples to Get You Started Today

Companies everywhere are embracing automation technology and transforming their tedious, time-consuming, manual processes into streamlined, easy-to-use, automated workflows

They’re doing this to reap the many benefits of automation technology. These benefits include reduced operational costs and increased productivity, as well as increased availability, reliability, and performance. In turn, this results in more satisfied customers.

Failing to automate your workflows comes at a cost. The average employee spends 20-40% of their time searching for documents and loses around 40% of their productivity to task switching. Meanwhile, CEOs reportedly spend some 25% of their time on tasks that can be easily automated. 

Every company has different goals and therefore different automation needs and priorities. For instance, a manufacturing company that frequently purchases raw materials might benefit from automating purchase order and invoice approval workflows. A temp agency that constantly recruits and onboards new employees may wish to invest in HR workflow automation to make the hiring and onboarding processes more seamless. 

In this post, we’ll dive into eight powerful examples of workflows at the workplace and discuss how to make the most of each workflow for optimal performance and workflow efficiency. With the right business workflow automation software, you can automate these processes – and much, much more. 

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Workflow vs Process: Understanding the Difference (+Examples)

Workflow and process are common words in business process management (BPM). 

They’re similar enough that they’re often used interchangeably, which creates quite a bit of confusion — even among experts in the field. 

So let’s define “workflow” and “process” in a way that’ll help you precisely and clearly communicate your ideas around BPM at work.

Read more: The differences between BPM and workflow and how to choose what’s right for you.

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