Digital Transformation at Desktop Enterprises

Advance Your Business with a Digital Transformation

Successful business owners and managers know that companies need to continuously evolve to stay competitive. This constant progress is the key to developing an effective business strategy, expanding profitability, and providing clients with relevant products and services. But with new technologies and processes constantly available, how do you prevent your business from becoming stagnant, and worse, getting left behind? The answer is Digital Transformation. What is Digital Transformation? Digital Transformation refers to using IT to modernize your current processes and practices, improving overall performance. With a Digital Transformation, your company will be able to integrate the latest technology into every
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pushing the processes

Does your business need systems?

How hard do you work to make your systems work? Systems are the life blood of a company, from answering the phone to getting Mabel’s tea just right, systems dictate how the company’s processes and interactions will be carried out. Without systems in place, it would be a free for all and Mabel may not get a decent cup of tea all day. A system can be as simple as a checklist showing the essential tasks to carry out. NHS Cleaners use them to ensure an area is cleaned to a suitable standard. Pilots use them before take-off and here
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The Value of a Dashboard

Data is critical in determining where a business is on its journey towards its current goals and ultimate success. Business metrics must be measured and tracked to determine performance and show where extra action is required. Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are the usual tool to measure these values and give an accurate picture of the business’s performance.   The question then becomes: how easy is it to collect and collate this information? Getting this data can be a time consuming task, using up valuable resources and often leading to not actively measuring the numbers because it just takes too much
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Life gets easy

Take your business to the next level, remove the humans

Workplace mistakes are more likely to emanate from people than computers. Computers are often blamed, but the problem almost always begins with the quality of information entered. The computer is only a tool, and to maximise the efficacy of any tool it must be used in ways which play to its strengths. Computers are great at data handling and processing, but less good at distinguishing the quality of data being fed to them. The automation of processes can minimise the chance of bad data entering the system. This is especially so where computers are able to talk directly to other
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Too many versions of the same spreadsheet?

Companies always seem to end up with multiple versions of the same spreadsheet. This is often down to multiple users editing and saving the same spreadsheet. If another user has it open, the system saves it as a new version. If this has happened to you,  Read on, there is a better way… Spreadsheets are good for testing a theory, they are very cost effective and they can be used almost immediately. They get overused and the temporary model they offer all too often becomes the default application for the business. Spreadsheets do run into problems where multiple users want
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