siliconindia | | April 20199nevertheless of your size. If automation is time con-suming & costly, you will need to get into calcula-tions, check whether it is worth it, and then take a call. And which is why, a valid question for all busi-nesses to ask is, when is the right time to automate my business.Five Things to Consider for Business AutomationFor you to take a more informed decision regarding business automation, we have listed down five factors, which we are calling as the A, B, C, D & E of business automation. Let us see what these factors are:· Accountability: When you automate, you create an owner for each step of your business processes. All tasks are then bound to one or the other individual who is responsible for that task alone. Enabling that level of information transparency helps you to drive accountability across all stakeholders of your busi-ness. It also allows you to identify certain trends; which tasks are taking the longest, where do things get stuck most often.· Better Usage of Time: Automating your business helps you to identify redundant, unnecessary steps and processes and removes them. It allows you to identify those points where there is wastage of time and resources. Not just that, repetitive tasks like com-piling and re-compiling information, which do not re-quire human skill or expertise can be weeded-out and replaced with automated systems. When you begin to automate your processes, it becomes very clear how much time people in your business spend, running around in circles - just because they don't have the in-formation they need, when they need it. By doing that, you will actually free-up time for yourself and your resources, so that they can focus on strategic aspects related directly to your company's core business. In other words, refocusing their time towards those ac-tivities, where technology cannot replace them.· Communication: An automated approach allows for a more organised communication between your stakeholders and employees. So, the person handling sales will be in sync with the person in inventory so that commitments are not made without the requisite stock being present; the person in charge of inventory will be in sync with the person-handling purchases, so that sufficient inventory levels are maintained at all times, and so on & so forth. What this will allow Tejas Goenka
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