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What is Workflow?
Workflow is the movement of documents and tasks through a work process. Most often, workflow includes documents that need to be distributed through a task or process because documents are the vehicle by which information moves through your organisation.
The concept of workflow is simple to understand, but difficult to implement without the right tool. Automation of workflow is handled through various software types.
Workflow Optimisation
The first way to increase operational efficiency through workflow optimisation is to move consecutive processes to simultaneous processes. Building a process that will require former consecutive steps to occur at the same time is a simple and effective way to incorporate process improvement into most business processes.
The second way to increase operational efficiency through workflow optimisation is to automate manual processes. Not all manual processes can be automated and many automated processes will still require manual intervention, but something as simple as automating the distributing of documents after a manual step can reduce time in processing documents thus increasing workflow efficiency. The increase in workflow efficiency can often equate directly to higher profits as labour costs are reduced.
One of the most effective ways to increase operational efficiency through workflow optimisation is to take manual, consecutive processes and convert them to automated, simultaneous processes. This allows each process opportunity to be combined to provide the highest level of process improvement.
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