Whilst revenue and costs should be easy to measure in a business, the hidden cost of ownership of IT solutions, business processes or repetitive tasks can be hard to quantify and business leaders can often be surprised by the time and money that is spent on business functions that could be vastly improved.
Inefficiency is a vicious circle that continues to serve itself as a business scales. By this we mean that if a process is inefficient, it only becomes more unwieldly as more is required of it and as such the costs to support it increase disproportionately as the volume of work increases.
If this sounds familiar you’re not alone, because most businesses have these processes that have been designed organically and are essential to the operation but cost too much to run, often with a high staffing expense.
PCs and Laptops are now very common in most business contexts and desktop tools such as Microsoft Excel and Access are available to most people with an Office 365 license.
With some definition, skill and determination desktop tasks can be handled in Excel workbooks and/or local Microsoft Access databases. However the problems of this approach are lurking in the future and only become apparent when you get to that point.
The simple problem is that desktop solutions do not scale.
Typically the problems with labour intensive processes start in the following sequence
The ability to integrate custom solutions with existing SaaS platforms has never been more readily available, delivering software architectures that leverage existing products in the context of bespoke solutions.
kwiboo’s software consultancy services can address the issues of poor business process performance as we look to create slick and efficient processes that are automated and repeatable.
We have added value to businesses countless times where we have replaced manual desktop processes with IT systems that can scale and reach all users, no matter where they are located.
We generally approach process automation projects will the following approach.
We have excellent examples of a labour intensive unscalable process that kwiboo automated and released to be able to expand dramatically without the associated staff costs.
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