automation

An eCommerce business thrives when it controls the customer relationship, turns customer data into useful decisions, keeps delivery promises, reduces product uncertainty, makes buying convenient, and gives its team clear operating procedures. These six effective tips help you decide which operating improvement deserves attention first. Start with the bottleneck that customers and employees feel most […]

In any business, marketing automation tools can help your business and can even be crucial for its success. This is mainly because they add to the marketing effort, which speeds up the business’s performance. Nowadays, consumer buying behaviors and the online marketing landscape keep changing. As a result, it becomes challenging to keep up with […]

As a manufacturer, you likely have to deal with large investments and the high costs of production. Part of that cost is the Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ): scrap, rework, returns and the time spent fixing problems, which often represents one of the biggest issues in the industry. If that is the case, finding new, […]

Digital transformation is a popular term that gets tossed around a lot these days in virtual meetings and around conference tables. It is definitely a factor affecting business growth, which means it is not something you should ignore. You need to take these new digital trends seriously. What is the impact of digital transformation on […]

You are not a machine, and you cannot be expected to operate at 100% every single day without being stressed. We all make mistakes, we feel overwhelmed and burnt out, and sometimes we simply cannot find the drive or the focus to be productive. What has changed is the shape of the pressure. Work is […]

There are three major costs associated with every document management system: hard costs, soft costs, and opportunity costs. Use this worksheet to estimate them.

Large-scale manufacturers rarely lose efficiency in one dramatic event. They lose it in five ordinary places: unplanned downtime after a workplace injury, a line that stops when the only trained operator is away, manual quality checks that people cannot sustain, faults nobody sees until the line halts, and machinery run to failure. Each of those […]

Many business owners grew up wanting to become entrepreneurs, not paper-pushers. They dreamed of creating products, taking financial risks, and perhaps making the cover of Forbes. They did not dream about cash flow management problems such as chasing late payments, printing invoices, and moving money in and out of bank accounts. Automation can improve business […]