Three Areas of Your Business to Review During Lockdownsubmitted on 30 April 2020
While lockdown and the economic slowdown that it’s precipitated has been damaging for businesses across the country, there have emerged certain benefits for companies looking to make the most of the pause in their operations. In this small window of calm and introspection, businesses can review their internal processes to drive efficiency, onboard new processes, and technologies, and drive a better workflow for the future. In this article, you’ll learn three areas in which you should be looking to improve while your company is slowed due to the lockdown.
IT Infrastructure
Without a doubt, the most essential part of your business to look over in this year of unpredictable events and economic slowdown is your technology suite. With so much of your work based on computers – and with remote workers continuing to contribute to your company from afar – you must get this part of your business spot-on to drive the highest revenues and profits through your business.
So, how do you review your IT solutions? The first step is to take a sweeping overview of all the systems that your business uses and to list the pricing structures that you fall under. Then, contact Kortek Solutions or other IT consultants to help you understand whether you’re using the best services and products for the best prices; from here, you can map out your improvements easily, with the right advice behind you.
Human vs. AI Automation
The next area of your business that it’s wise to review at the start of this new decade is your automation capacity. If you are looking to be a future-facing company that embraces the new world that high-technology is bringing to us, you should already have automated specific working processes and systems. But there’s always so much more that you can do.
Again, an IT consultant – this time one that specializes in business automation – can help you understand how you can change and adapt your business to shift your human labor onto the tasks that really need sentient workers to complete. In contrast, AI and automation can cover the tedious and repetitive jobs that your staff would rather leave behind.
Overheads
One of the main overheads for any business is the cost of their office and the costs associated with renting a place of work, paying the bills, and furnishing it with all of the elements of a workspace that your employees would expect. Whether you’re excited by the prospect of home working into the future, or you’re skeptical as to your workers’ efforts working from home, this is an area where you can save a considerable amount of money.
For instance, if you’re able to drop down to a smaller office space, and you ask your employees to work from home for part of the week every week, you can save thousands of dollars on rent, and you’ll not see a drop in productivity as a result.
All of these tips should be at the forefront of your mind when considering how best to change and alter your business in 2020 and beyond.
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