www.automatingsuccess.com Automate Business Processes The eventual goals of business automation are reduced costs, increased business, and enhanced profits. But, how do you get there? Remember that you do not magically automate your entire business. You will dissect your business and automate business processes one at a time. And, if your goal is to automate business processes, what is the best approach? Review your business. Pick the most time consuming and labor intensive tasks as your first choices to automate business processes. Then consider tasks that are prone to human error and replace people with computer programs. And finally use the rapid processing of a smart computer program to spot errors, deal with problems, and take advantage of opportunities before a human could ever spot the issues. Your Business Virtually any business can take advantage of available programs to automate business processes. But, as we have mentioned before, you need to take a look at what your business does, what it does well, and where it needs improvement. If you have great products and services but are not making sales you may want to look for help with marketing, customer support, and how you deal with customer complaints. If you have a rapidly growing business you need to look at how your current systems will handle more work, more data, and increasingly complex problems to solve. For example, a small business CRM program may or may not be scalable for an expanding business …
