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What is IT Transformation? + 8 Examples
It would be easy to write IT transformation as just another buzz phrase - but it’d be a big mistake too. You see, the IT department is the core of your operations, right across the rest of your organization. We talk a lot these days about digital transformation, but you won’t get far without the right tools, people, expertise, capabilities, and capacity. IT transformation helps you to achieve exactly that.
Ronan McQuillan
Feb 9, 2023
3 Types of Workflow | In-Depth Guide
When it comes to building efficient internal operations, understanding the logic that governs common tasks is crucial. However, this is nearly impossible if we don’t have a firm grasp of the core types of workflow. That’s just what we’re covering today. You see, workflow is an incredibly broad term. We could be talking about just about anything - from simple vacation approvals to highly complex automated replenishment tasks. This presents us with a few major challenges.
Ronan McQuillan
Jan 3, 2023
8 Steps to Create & Optimize a Workflow Model
An effective workflow model is the foundation of all sorts of change, transformation, and optimization projects. Therefore, you’d expect this to be something that’s widely understood. The reality is that many businesses don’t have such a clear idea of what workflow modeling is, what it achieves, or how to go about it in the real world. In turn, this undermines their efforts to improve their workflows - since they’re missing a crucial first step.
Ronan McQuillan
Jan 3, 2023
Business Process Management | Ultimate Guide
Business process management is the cornerstone of any successful organization. From early-stage startups to massive enterprises, BPM is the key to efficient, robust, and consistent operations. However, process management is also widely misunderstood. Part of the problem here is that BPM is so ubiquitous. In fact, it touches on just about every aspect of your business, including ops, IT, HR, finances, marketing, sales, legal, and much, much more. Because of this, there’s a huge market for products that want to bill themselves as one-stop-shop BPM platforms.
Ronan McQuillan
Nov 29, 2022
Business Process Management Tools | 2025 Guide + 5 Picks
Choosing business process management tools can be a bit of a minefield. There are a lot of vendors and SaaS tools out there promising the world. Then, we have a corresponding number of companies struggling to achieve the results they expect. If this sounds familiar, you’re in the right place. Today, we’re going to be clearing up some misconceptions around business process management tools. And there’s a lot of ground to cover too.
Ronan McQuillan
Nov 29, 2022
Business Process Analysis | 6-Step Guide
Business process analysis is a critical part of any transformation, improvement, or optimization project. No matter the specific process you’re targeting, thorough analysis is the key to setting effective goals and developing the right strategies to meet them. Despite this, process analysis is something that countless businesses get wrong. In minor cases, this will lead to your efforts falling short of your expected results. In more extreme cases, you might fail to achieve anything at all - or even suffer unintended consequences like avoidable costs, disruption, and wasted time.
Ronan McQuillan
Nov 28, 2022
What is Business Process Optimization? + 5 Tips
Business process optimization is a hot topic these days. In the age of remote workforces, ever-expanding digitalization, and difficult economic pressures, efficiency, transparency, and consistency have never been more important. Today, we’re diving deep into everything you need to know about achieving this across your entire business. The trouble is that, as a term, process optimization is typically used pretty loosely. So, if we want to be successful, we need to start with a clear definition and framework for BPO.
Ronan McQuillan
Nov 28, 2022
How to Build a Firebase GUI
A Firestore Firebase GUI is the easiest way to interact with your database without coding. Firebase is a versatile tool for app developers. It can completely replace the back end of your app, so you can focus on its front end and features. But all this versatility comes with a cost. Firestore Firebase is widely used by developers, but interacting with it can be quite hard - in particular, if you need to perform admin actions.
Ronan McQuillan
Nov 21, 2022