Content<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The first New Year's resolution is something you may have noticed that we repeat over and over again because we are convinced it's the key to success: DIGITALIZATION. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Moving to digital records will allow you to save time and space, ensure better protection and availability of your data, simplify and speed up communication, collaboration, and improve the transparency and accessibility of your company's important records. <\/p>\n\n\n\n How about this? For digitizing records, you can use cloud-based document management solutions like Microsoft SharePoint. If you're just starting with digitization, OneDrive will also suffice. Digitizing records of orders, tasks, documents, and lists specific to your business will help the company progress faster and distribute information more effectively within the team. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Have you ever asked yourself what the foundation of your business is? It's your processes. Therefore, it is essential that you continuously monitor and improve them. Analyze your key processes and identify where the company's weaknesses are, where waste occurs, what unnecessary mistakes to avoid, and how to find opportunities that will move you forward. This way, you will increase efficiency and productivity, quality and satisfaction, and last but not least, competitiveness and innovation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n You can use various methods to analyze key processes, such as process mapping and then integrating them into your business applications. How is your sales process? What process do you use for order execution? How do employees access process systems? Are they accessible from mobile? Proper analysis of your processes and their incorporation into a user-friendly business application will move your company forward by leaps and bounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Everything under one roof. Eliminate chaos and provide employees with company news, documents, and the ability to communicate with other employees in a single location. This \u201csingle source of truth\" will help you improve the quality and integrity of information, the availability and accessibility of your data, and accelerate your teams' analytical, decision-making, and communication capabilities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Do you know what the most valuable commodity is? Your data. It is a valuable source of information that helps you in making decisions and managing your business. Therefore, it is important that you create a single \u201cplace of truth,\" which means a single intranet or source database, that will contain all your important data and will be constantly updated and synchronized with all your applications and systems. <\/p>\n\n\n\n ,Your company's \u201csource of truth\u201c could be Microsoft Teams, for example. You can quickly and easily integrate various applications into Teams, including SharePoint, which is ideal for sharing news, regulations, or project updates. It's also the perfect place for filling out forms or for a clear overview of orders, projects, and documents. And the best part? Employees can keep the window open, communicate, or search for information and files without constant clicking back and forth. A company intranet as a \"source of truth\" will provide everyone in your company with clarity and eliminate office gossip during smoke breaks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n First and foremost, clarify what your company's most important asset is. Or rather, who. It's your valuable employees. Therefore, it's important that you provide them with an optimal start and end to their employment. Improve onboarding and offboarding, and thereby increase your employees' motivation, loyalty, and performance. You will also reduce turnover, costs, and risks associated with staff changes. It will also help you ensure compliance with legal and ethical standards. <\/p>\n\n\n\n To improve employee onboarding and offboarding, an ideal HR solution would be built (once again) on the SharePoint platform (yes, we love this tool because it's cleverly multifunctional). <\/p>\n\n\n\n If you need to let an employee go, the system automatically revokes their access to internal systems and deactivates their user account without having to wait for the IT department. Easy! <\/p>\n\n\n\n This point probably won\u2019t come as a complete surprise. We live in an era where we automate every possible process to the fullest extent. After all, process automation saves us not only money but also time. It also increases accuracy, improves security, and allows people to focus on more creative and valuable tasks instead of manual labor and repetitive tasks. Want to get the most out of automation? Use RPA tools (robotic process automation). <\/p>\n\n\n\n Asking what can be automated in your company? Almost everything. Digital document workflow, warehouse processes, sales processes, order automation, signing or approval, or processes specific to your company. You can also automate HR processes, financial processes, document extraction, or marketing activities. You just need to choose the right platform and processes to start with in your company. If it seems like you don't quite know which way is up or which direction to go, we will help you find the most suitable process for automation in your company through a process audit and analysis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cyberattacks aren\u2019t just the stuff of action movies. Even as we speak, someone somewhere in the world is trying to force their way into another person\u2019s virtual space. How do you know your company won\u2019t be the next target? Do you have any idea how to protect your data, systems, and networks from attacks, breaches, theft, or damage? <\/p>\n\n\n\n Next year, we recommend focusing on your company's cybersecurity. The number of attacks, data losses, and thefts is increasing, and you don't need to be a Nostradamus to predict that 2024 will bring even more attacks on corporate infrastructures and information systems. Properly configured cybersecurity processes will enable you to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your information, prevent financial losses, reputational damage, or legal issues. <\/p>\n\n\n\n What can you do? Review the security settings in your company, from antivirus solutions, firewalls, VPNs, encryption, authentication, and monitoring, to the security of your business applications, internal systems, and cloud data storage. Don't take this as a warning or recommendation. More or less, it's a mandatory journey if you want to keep your company alive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n What about hiring an employee for your company who can learn on their own? Do they work non-stop? Can they perform tasks automatically and follow precisely defined procedures and processes? \u201cHire\" artificial intelligence and improve your products or services, increase your competitiveness, and create new opportunities and value. <\/p>\n\n\n\n We are not talking about generating texts through ChatGPT now. Rather, we are concerned with deploying artificial intelligence for your processes, record-keeping, and business applications. Solutions like SharePoint Premium with Syntex will enable you to extract data from documents, make decisions about process workflows, or write personalized marketing or sales messages for your customers. The sooner you integrate an AI employee, the sooner you will get ahead of the competition. A simple equation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
Digitization of records<\/strong> <\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Key Process Analysis<\/strong> <\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Create one \u201cplace of truth\"<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Enhance employee onboarding and offboarding<\/strong>\u202f<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Cybersecurity is a "must-have"\u201c<\/strong> <\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Artificial intelligence for business processes<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n