Overview

The Big Mix Up, Email and Business Process Automation

I work with companies every day that use email not only as a business communications tool but to initiate work processes. Is your company using emails to kick off manual back office processes? I am willing to bet that a majority of companies have adopted email as a means to trigger processes.

There are several problems that companies face when using email as a way to manage workflow in the back office, including:

Visibility -Once an email is sent it is hard to keep track of what is going on with that piece of work. Someone will have to manually [...]

Your Customers Are Talking, But Are You Listening?

Each morning, I visit a few of my favorite business sites online to see what’s taking shape in the world. While going through my rounds the other day, I came across an article about the impact of bad customer service and how it can end up costing you in the long-run. Novel concept I know!

The article focused on a large media company and how years of bad service has cost the company many of its subscribers. Today, the company is undergoing a $50 million ad campaign in an attempt win back old customers and gain new ones, while trying to [...]

How to Become a Now Organization

It’s important that companies recognize that their reputation can be made or broken in real time.  There should be no worse feeling than that of not knowing how your customers actually feel about your business.  As Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO once stated, “If you make customers unhappy in the physical world, they might each tell 6 friends. If you make customers unhappy on the Internet, they can each tell 6,000 friends.”  As pointed out by Jeff, in the internet age an unhappy customer will post their experience on Twitter, Facebook, their blog or another form of social media.  And [...]

Getting Ahead with Workforce Optimization

When I was younger, I would always ask my dad, why he used the same shaving cream. Why did he only use Crest Toothpaste.  Or why he wouldn’t look for a new job after experiencing difficult times at work.  And each time his answer was simple: loyalty.  That was just how his generation was built, if you find something good, you stick with it.  Unfortunately, loyalty is no longer a common practice in the 21st century.

So what exactly does this mean?  It means that we’re in a new era, an era of information, the web, social media and [...]