Posted by Mike Raia July 23, 2019
We've put together several resources that cover designing a process from the ground up over the years and thought it made sense to combine them into a single, one-stop shopping post.
Whether you are a beginner or a seasoned professional, these articles will help you understand the basics of the business design process and provide some of the crucial steps in creating an effective… View More
Posted by Mike Raia July 16, 2019
Grab that low-hanging fruit!
Whether you're working on your first-ever large-scale workflow automation project or you've just started another for a new set of stakeholders, it will benefit you to focus on a few quick wins before delivering a large-scale process implementation. The reasons for this are numerous and the benefits can be significant.
Why Are Quick Workflow Wins… View More
Posted by Mike Raia June 19, 2019
Today, we'll dive into the foundations of designing a process from the ground up. Whether you are a beginner or a seasoned professional, this article will help you understand the basics of the business design process and provide some of the crucial steps in creating an effective process. Note: for an even more thorough discussion of process planning and design, check out our free… View More
Posted by Mike Raia June 3, 2019
When we think of Quality Assurance we often think about the manufacturing of cars, toys, food, etc. to meet the expected standards of quality set by a company or regulatory body. However, quality assurance can be applied to a wide variety of business disciplines and is not just limited to the production of a physical good.
What is Quality Assurance
Quality assurance is a practice used to prevent the occurrence of errors… View More
Posted by Mike Raia May 28, 2019
If you’ve been a long-term business owner or even a leader in an established business of any kind, you know how chaotic things can get when most decisions are left to fully-autonomous employees. While there is definitely a role for autonomy as it promotes job satisfaction and can help employees grow as they learn to make decisions to better the business, in most cases, at least a core set of understood rules is critical to help the… View More
Posted by Mike Raia May 7, 2019
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Most organizations experience quite a bit of pain when it comes to submitting, managing, and reporting on approvals. Regardless of the… View More
Posted by Mike Raia April 23, 2019
You know it’s true—your inefficient processes are impacting productivity, efficiency, and perhaps even competitiveness and employee morale.
In all kinds of teams and industries, messy, manual workflows are still surprisingly common, and they're hampering your company's potential. You don't have any more time to struggle through manual, inefficient workflows. It's time to be quicker, more efficient, more competitive, and… View More
Posted by Mike Raia April 12, 2019
Continuous improvement (CI) is an ongoing effort to improve a product, service or process. For example, author Karen J. Fryer describes CI as the process of getting better all the time. The American Society for Quality (ASQ) holds that CI efforts can include incremental improvement where… View More
Posted by Mike Raia March 15, 2019
Integrify is not an Intranet system by design. However, there are aspects of a corporate intranet that can be achieved with Integrify out of the box using dashboards and widgets. Depending on your needs, Integrify can be a replacement for or a supplement to an existing intranet. At a minimum, Integrify's dashboards can act as a front-end for any company or department processes.
In the screenshot below, we'll cover the features and… View More
Posted by Mike Raia February 25, 2019
Despite worker preferences and technological advancements, there are still a surprising number of companies that subscribe to the "butts in seats" philosophy and do little to provide workplace flexibility or telecommuting options. In fact, as per a study by Werk last year, there is a large chasm between what workers want and what they're offered in terms of workplace… View More