How Can Automation Help Your Small Business?
We’re sharing our experience in automation in this blog series to help debug the myths around automation and how small businesses, such as yours, can take advantage of the numerous intrinsic & extrinsic benefits.
WHAT IS AUTOMATION?
Artificial intelligence? Machine learning? Robots? Terminator….let’s hope not! According to IBM “Automation is the application of technology, programs, robotics or processes to achieve outcomes with minimal human input.”
To our small business customers, automation is:
- Helping reduce the time and cost of managing their bookkeeping.
- Having peace of mind knowing that the right emails are going to the right customer at the right time
- Making sure they get paid on time
- No longer having to worry about having a customer’s request fall through the gaps
- Removing mundane and boring activities from their team’s workload so they’re happier and more productive
- Guaranteeing workforce stability in a time hardship
The list goes on.
At The Catalysis Group, we help small businesses with intelligent process automation (IPA), specifically the design & application of smart workflow, robotic process automation, integration automation and advanced analytics.
We’re sharing our experiences through this blog series to help debug the myths around automation and how small businesses, such as yours, can take advantage of the numerous intrinsic & extrinsic benefits.
HOW CAN INTELLIGENT PROCESS AUTOMATION HELP YOUR BUSINESS?
Automation has played a significant role in helping business owners do more with less. The most recent trends have been focused on enhancing the value and productivity of employees rather than replacing them. We have seen
Business Process Management (BPM) helps improve visibility, increase efficiency and reduce costs. We helped Stewart Accounting and Advisory implement BPM practices to improve the management and action of daily/weekly/monthly client activity. They were able to grow client volumes by 40% while staying lean and mobile.
Software bots or Robotic process automation removes highly repetitive, routine activity from workloads; reducing human error, increasing throughput and accelerating time to value. We personally feel it also helps improve workplace happiness. Kady & team now spend more time with customers and less on administrative tasks. Follow her @kadycreative so see how she now spends more time at the beach each day.
Smart workflows and integration automation bring together our ever-increasing web of systems and software solutions created by “age of applications”. It removes laborious manual tasks related to transferring and processing data from one platform to another and allows for humans to focus on getting value from the data. We helped our friends at BN Multi save $25,000 in bookkeeping expenses by creating and implementing smart workflows between Shopify & Xero.
Read more about our Case Studies to find out how IPA has helped our clients.
Stay tuned to the next piece in our series to help you learn and understand automation and how to apply it into your business.
