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Zero B.S. announces key strategic partnership with bpm’online
17 September 2018 Sydney – Zero B.S. is delighted to announce its partnership with bpm’online, a global business software company leading in the space of business process automation and CRM.
RPA Nation Podcast – Interview of Alex Zarate on BPM and RPA
Voice Prompt: This is RPA Nation, the world's first robotics process automation podcast. Host: Hello, everybody. Welcome to RPA Nation, I'm here with Alex Zarate of ZERO B.S. How are you doing there, Alex? Alex Zarate: Good, mate. How are you? Host: Not too bad....
Our Top Ten Productivity Tools
Productivity tools are certainly not in short supply. And everyone has their own preferences based on their individual requirements. There are literally thousands of solutions in all shapes and colours for you to choose. Our recommendation that before you start...
Why Change Management can make or break your Transformation Project
Most companies struggle with transformation because of ineffective change management strategies. When change management goes smoothly, the expected benefits will be realized. However, if the structured strategy a business has in place fails, it could break a...
3 Strategies to Improve Employee Experience Through Business Automation
Are you struggling with business automation taking hold within your organization? The right process automations can be created with the best of intentions but without a commitment to the employee experience, your new ideas will not be part of the company culture....
Why Retail CEOs Need to Have a Serious Look at the Health of Their Business Processes for the Sake of Their Customers
With the threat of severe market changes appearing on the horizon it is becoming essential for businesses in the retail sector to optimize their processes with regards to sourcing, customer relations, and research operations. CEOs stand at the forefront of this...
How Small and Mid-Sized Financial Services Businesses are Exposing Themselves by Running Too Many Manual Processes
Nearly 84 percent of businesses rely on manual processes for key business operations throughout the work day.(1) These processes, while rooted in the comfort of familiarity, pose a grave risk to businesses seeking to improve efficiency and reduce human resource...
How General Managers and Operations Heads can Supercharge Their Careers by Employing These 7 Strategies
Your role as a manager simultaneously ensures that your skills determine results alongside the productivity of those working under you. Thus, it is imperative that you determine the best ways to maximize current and future productivity in a way that guarantees the employees have the opportunity to support you in furthering your career.
Don’t Pay For That IT Consultancy Before You Have a Strategy in Place
Hiring an IT consultant can be a major asset to your company. By better understanding your business strategy and your needs, you’ll be in a better place to bring on a consultant and understand what you’ll need to look for in order to find the right consultant for you.
Phase 5: Build (the vision)
By this stage of the process the planning team will be a little stretched and looking get the Strategic Planning exercise over and done with. Please resist that temptation of taking shortcuts in this phase. This final phase of the journey is where the rubber hits the...
Phase 4: Assemble (the tools)
This phase is usually Day #2 of the offsite (remember your offsite maybe longer depending on the size of your business) so this is just a baseline you can use as a guide. I named this phase of the process “Assemble” because your focus will turn from defining the path...
Phase 3: Architect (the future)
This phase of Strategic Planning is focused on defining what the future looks like. Here is where you get specific about which strategies you will employ to achieve your objectives.
Phase 2: Audit (the present)
Okay, so you have done the groundwork and now you are ready to get your hands dirty. Good! This part requires lots of analysis, research and surveying. I called this phase “Audit”, because that’s exactly what you will be doing. You are auditing the environment around...
Phase 1: Groundwork
Overview The process is divided into five logical stages as you can appreciate below. Each stage has a number of steps that we recommend get completed for a thorough and effective Strategic Planning exercise. Below is a suggested plan across a four-week period....