Before using software to reorganize your company, determine your goals first. Here is a cost-effective way to do this quickly.
Why implement change?
Companies looking to grow must ensure their processes and procedures are robust, repeatable, and scalable. Owner-managers should position themselves to work on the business organization rather than being a central part of it. Both of these issues can be addressed through the correct use of workflows and workflow automation.
Why workflow automation projects fail?
Research why workflow automation projects fail, and you will find many fail due to insufficient analysis at the start, particularly in defining the scope and objectives. This leads to:
- Lack of clear goals and strategy
- Incomplete process understanding
- Choosing the wrong process to automate
Define scope in a Requirements Specification
Good practice, therefore, is to define a Requirements Specification defining the scope and objectives before seeking a supplier to provide a solution.
In this you document your 'real' processes. There is often a discrepancy between the perceived and actual processes in use.
However, even a well-prepared Requirements Document may contain errors. We have solved this problem with our Verification Engine technology, which allows companies to verify, test, and demonstrate a workflow is correct as it is captured.
The Intelligent Actions Verification Engine
Processes are quickly captured graphically, and inputs for each task are specified. This data is fed into our verification engine, which builds a model of the process and generates outputs for testing with live data. This allows the team specifying the workflow to ensure it performs as expected. Any issues, such as faulty logic or identified improvements, can be quickly resolved by amending the captured workflow diagram.
Once testing is complete, the fully documented diagram can be provided to suppliers for quotation as it is a detailed tested Requirements Specification.
Take a look at our Verification Engine technology, which allows you to verify your workflow as you capture it.
This will save you time and money.
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