Workflow Improvement

Achieving full-scale automation or transformation is a massive undertaking for any organization. Rethinking business processes – from simple tasks to wide-scale workflows – requires that organizations overcome internal resistance, identify best technologies and almost rebuild business processes from the ground up.

A pressing issue across businesses is the continual need to do more with less, particularly without increasing costs! We have found that this can be achieved with the magical help of a cost-free tool called Power Query.

Automating business processes has become a common thread across industries. The idea is simple: identify non-essential, manual, repetitive processes, and implement a discipline of automating these processes.

Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), sometimes called Managed Services, was a $200B market in 2018.

Last week I laid out that making businesses run better requires three essential elements: real-time analytics, improved workflows, and innovation.

As companies begin developing post-COVID business strategies, many are making decisions to move systems and processes to the cloud, digitize more, and create remote work environments.

Recently, our E&P client acquired assets and as part of that acquisition needed to migrate data from one system to another.

Since Digital Transformation is so broad, delving into how it can help companies requires the process to be broken down to its stages.

To help stay competitive and maximize employee productivity, organizations should continually ensure that their teams are up to speed with the latest Excel functionalities and are routinely seeking to enhance efficiency in Excel analyses.

Companies are in different phases of their Agile journey. Some are well versed in Agile, some are still studying Agile methodologies, some are venturing into an Agile transformation, some are broadly ‘going Agile,’ and for others, Agile is not something they are considering.

The COVID-19 public health crisis continues to deliver unprecedented disruption to businesses around the world. For some companies, the financial impact has been catastrophic.

As we begin to re-open businesses and re-shape goals and future needs for organizations, it’s the perfect time to focus on ways to think efficiently, streamline processes, and work smarter, not harder!

The future of many companies in the oil and gas industry rests on their ability to manage cash. In this time of crisis, now is the time for companies to focus on optimizing and implementing best practices around their entire Order-to-Cash processes.

A Roadmap to Restarting Business: Many process companies shut down regularly.  Auto assembly lines and oil refineries, for example, retool, and do maintenance and repairs during such periods of inactivity. They have elaborate plans and drilled protocols for shutdown and restart. But this time, things are different for everyone.

How We Work.  The New Norms. The world as we knew it has changed forever.  At the start of the year, we expected the future of work would eventually include a mobile, flexible workforce operating on digitalized, secure workflows.  

When doing an SAP Ariba P2P implementation, it is easy to focus on the procurement system design and lose focus on the Ariba Network Supplier Enablement workstream. One of the biggest benefits of SAP Ariba is the automation and control