Business Process & Workflow
As the automation of physical and knowledge work advances, many jobs will be redefined rather than eliminated—at least in the short term, according to Michael Chui, James Manyika, and Mehdi Miremadi, analysts at the McKinsey Global Institute in Chicago
Nuance Communications Australia has announced the availability of Dragon Professional Group, its enterprise-ready speech recognition software for professionals across multiple industries.
If your most valuable team member resigned tomorrow, would you know where to find the reports, project updates or files your colleague had been working on? If you’ve ever tried to retrieve a document that has been saved to someone else’s desktop, or buried in an electronic system only the owner understands, you’ll know how time consuming this can be. An effective intranet can save you time, money and administrative headaches by ensuring that your corporate information is easily retrievable and useful.
Marc Kerremans, Gartner research director, shares his insights into some of the challenges that business process leaders are facing.
More than 35 years have passed since British-American information scientist, Frederick Wilfrid, first envisioned a ‘paperless office’ in 1978. Today, the reality is that the physical page continues to be a central part of daily office life.
Brother International Australia has launched its PocketJet 7 series, an A4 portable thermal printing solution engineered to offer new levels of freedom to mobile workers spanning any industry including healthcare, transportation, public safety, pest management and professional field service organisations.
News Corp is rolling out Dropbox across the organization to provide its 25,000-plus employees globally the tools to better work together.
A three year, $A5.4M program to implement electronic record-keeping at the Department of Health has failed to provide “an effective and efficient records management system which delivered identified business needs,” according to a report by the Australian National Audit Office.
This scathing ANAO Audit of Australia’s Health Department highlights many issues of concern, however it does seem to embody a fundamentally old school interpretation of record-keeping which places documents at its foundation.
I read an article recently about how the paperless push in the Victorian Government was apparently failing. My immediate thought was “not surprised” given the way most organisations (including government agencies) approach the transition to a paperless office.
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