Business Process & Workflow
1. Sorcery - Leaders attempt to change culture with a single magical approach. Whether it is “Lean manufacturing”, “Results based decision making”, “Customer focus” or “Process re-engineering”, leaders attempt to find the silver bullet of changing their culture. Whilst methods of improving quality or focusing on customers or improving efficiency help to give a focus to why we want to change culture, they in themselves, do not change culture.
SharePoint is a word that often elicits a strong reaction; sometimes good and sometimes bad. For some, SharePoint is a solid information management platform that’s widely utilised by major companies around world. For others, SharePoint is a four-letter word, spoken with disdain and frustration.
Symantec and Dropbox have announced an expanded partnership which will address access management and data protection challenges.
Biometrics use is moving front and centre stage in driving trends in mobile consumer retail behaviour, according to Stuart Johnston, Partner and the leader of Deloitte’s Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) group, with one in three smartphone having a fingerprint scanner on their smartphone, and of these almost 70% use this capability regularly.
Organisations will need to prepare now to exploit the enhanced workflow capabilities of PDF 2.0, the first major overhaul of the venerable Portable Document Format (PDF) standard, which is due out in early 2017.
ELMO Talent Management Software, an Australia and New Zealand provider of cloud-based human resources (HR) software, claims to be the first unified HR software provider to integrate with the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) by offering paperless electronic submission of Tax File Number (TFN) Declarations through its onboarding solution.
Alfresco Software is adding extensive data modelling features to its flagship Alfresco Activiti 1.5 BPM platform, promising one-click access to any connected database, and the ability to process, or “model,” that data for use in new corporate applications.
Commonwealth agencies with innovative digital projects are invited to nominate them for the National Archives of Australia 2017 Awards for Digital Excellence.
In a perfect enterprise, all data and content would be entirely integrated throughout all business apps, with workflow and business process management (BPM) systems driving most tasks. However, many of today's organisations are only beginning to make this transition. The Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) is one Australian federal government agency that has taken firm strides in its quest to achieve this ideal.
Sydney’s Waverley Council is accelerating its move to the digital age with the help of esignatures, as part of the 150-year-old council’s Digital Waverley program.
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