We all love a Top 10 list, don’t we? It’s a great way to get a fast overview of a subject without actually delving into it too in-depth. Snackable insight for a fast-paced life!
We have pulled together our team of Customer Success Agents, Sales Engineers, Territory Managers, and anyone else in the company to compile a list of the top examples of BPA software questions we get asked by customers who are embarking on their journey of process automation. We want to share what the biggest concerns are of companies right now and we wanted to give a view on what senior managers and owners are trying to understand, as they look to transform their business and future-proof their offering.
We are not trying to be a local radio DJ – this list is not a countdown! The list below could have been ten times longer, but we have tried to cover off the most interesting and challenging questions our team are asked on a daily basis.
You would be surprised about how many senior, intelligent, and reasonably well informed people don’t know what business process automation is, never mind how it works. When we answer this question, we tend to ask the client to “imagine a world where business processes are easily managed, where data flows exactly as it should, where bottlenecks are identified quickly, and you make better decisions.”. At the start, it is best not to take a very high-level view of what you are trying to achieve. Imagine the new utopia and aim for that.
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This is one of the top examples of BPA software questions we get asked daily! Too many companies have meetings about meetings about meetings when it comes to initiating change. The key to initiating the change to automate your business processes is to just get started!
Just get moving on it. The more you get going, the more you will uncover as to what needs doing.
Yes. If you speak to most of the top agencies in business process automation, you will hear them talking about a “Process First” approach to transforming your business and automating your processes. This approach effectively sees you the business owner, map out your processes as the business requires them to be, rather than as dictated by your current technology stack. The first iteration of your processes should be built out in this fashion, allowing you to ascertain which technologies you need to integrate into your Business Process Automation solution and which you would be better to ignore and deprecate.
This approach typically sees more robust results and more effective processes than trying to integrate everything first.
Yes, you can. As part of our customer onboarding process we have a SureStart program, which is designed to enable us to work with you to deliver your first process into production, making onboarding as smooth as possible for our new customers. After the SureStart program, if you do not have the resources to build out additional processes, our Professional Services Team can build the processes for you.
First get started. If this is seen as a fanciful project, people will be reluctant to get involved. This should be seen as a new dawn. It should be seen as a momentous moment as when the first website was created, or the first emails distributed. This is going to be how we all do business now. Next, get them involved, ask for more processes and encourage training. Reward those who take the initiative and who want to change.
We do a session called a Proof of Value Workshop with some of our potential clients to write a number against this request. We look at one process, and we look at the man-hours and resources needed to run that process currently and then we create a POV calculation for that one process over the course of a year. Typically, we see the cost of our license dwarfed by this cost on just one process.
“I am fine the way I am thanks”. I get it. Your business is working just fine, and you don’t feel you have the time to work on it now. I would just ask – can you work without email? Can you work without a website? Could you return to work on just paper?
Not all companies are innovators, but the older we become, the more we realize the things we should have got on with earlier. The top investment houses in the world are backing process automation and no code in a big way. It’s happening. Your choice is to either do it now or kick that can down the road a bit more. Either way, you will be doing it.
Well guys, that’s your top 10 examples of BPA software FAQs. Typically, most businesses we speak to are starting their automation journey now. COVID-19 was a tipping point for them, and the need is now greater than ever. Our advice remains the same, choose no code, pick a process, get going, in the words of Seneca; “The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately”.