It\u2019s a beautiful Saturday morning in October. The air is crisp and smells like autumn, evoking childhood memories of jumping into the big pile of leaves your parents raked in the middle of your lush, green lawn.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, you\u2019re the parent now, and last night\u2019s wind blew all the leaves off the Sugar Maple tree onto your yard. You\u2019ve got a full day of work in front of you.<\/p>\n
First, you rake. Then, you bag. Rinse and repeat for hours. When that\u2019s finally done, you get out your old push mower and walk back and forth across the lawn for 10 minutes. Next, it\u2019s weed-whacking time \u2013 followed by 45 minutes left of lugging your old, heavy trimmer around, cleaning up stray limbs.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s a better way: Get the tools you need to improve the process.<\/strong> Buy a 48-inch, zero-turn riding mower, a backpack leaf-blower and a battery-powered trimmer. You\u2019ll still have work to do, but these tools will make it easier and faster.<\/p>\n Just like you need a better way to manage your yard, businesses need a better way to manage tasks.<\/p>\n Almost all businesses have solved the big, common tasks (raking leaves, mowing the lawn) with enterprise resource planning<\/a> (ERPs), customer relationship management (CRMs), and the like. But the smaller, manual, custom tasks continue to pile up. Many of our clients have dozens of jobs available to help complete these tasks, and they are becoming harder and harder to fill. Regularly accomplishing these tasks on the backs of our people is unsustainable.<\/p>\n Enter enterprise automation, a concept becoming more and more common as companies are no longer settling for hiring people to do manual tasks.<\/strong> Enterprise automation is a methodology of addressing all the automation gaps not already automated within an ERP, CRM, billing and invoicing program or other applications.<\/p>\n Technologies like robotic process automation<\/a> (RPA) and low- or no-code platforms called business process management software (BPMS) can enable enterprise automation. Over the course of this blog series, we\u2019ll dive deeper into exploring the differences between and benefits of RPA, BPM and other enterprise automation solutions. In order to enjoy the benefits of fully enabled enterprise automation, first, you\u2019ll need a plan.<\/p>\n To achieve enterprise automation maturity, which is the long-term goal of eliminating manual tasks, you need to:<\/p>\n Some soft or qualitative savings to keep in mind:<\/strong><\/p>\n These four steps listed above are dependent on your automation maturity. Keep in mind enterprise automation maturity is not always a linear journey.<\/strong> You may be starting out and exploring new low-code tools to run a POC on, or you might be deep in your fourth year of running an RPA COE. In this series, we\u2019re going to walk you through these stages of maturity:<\/p>\n After fully automating your day-to-day work tasks, you can dream up building a robot that will take care of all your yard projects, and then you can sit back and enjoy it all. While you might not have what it takes to build an entire crew of yard care robots, you do have the capabilities to drive enterprise automation. No matter where you may be along the path to maturity, we\u2019ll show you what it takes to close those automation gaps and achieve an optimized organization.<\/p>\n\n What is Enterprise Automation?<\/h2>\n
4 Steps to Achieving Enterprise Automation Maturity<\/h2>\n
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