Back to all BlogsIs Your Business Ready To Go Mobile?
You may have heard of similar businesses in your industry becoming mobile and transforming their traditional paper based methods into digital formats, or you might be a part of a company that is already utilising the cloud in certain divisions. Are you wondering whether a field mobility platform is something that you can use to make your business the most productive and efficient it can be?
Transferring your business from paper based methods to a digital format, does not need to be a difficult process. Most field mobility platforms are quick and easy to implement and take minimal training due to the intuitive user interface and usability. In the long run this can help save your business time and money and increase staff profitability and efficiency – good for everyone, all round! Below are some of the indicators which will help you to decide whether you are ready to make the change to digital:
Do you have employees working in the field or on the move within the workplace?
These employees are able to benefit from using mobile applications to receive tasks and the locations, capture data, view associated documents, notifications and much more. They are able to complete their tasks on a digital format and send the information back to the office in real time. Removing paper based methods, allows for these tasks to be completed in a more efficient and accurate way. In turn, this benefits the business as the employees are able to be more productive and complete more within the time they work.
Do you need to manage these field based staff?
Mobility platforms allow a business to allocate tasks to employees in the field, along with notifications in real time, allowing for updates and information to be sent to guide them with their task. Managers are able to oversee and run projects without having to be on site or present all the time. User permissions also allow a company to be in full control over which employees have access to data – which, from a security point of view, is crucial.
Do you require data capture in the field to be sent back to the office?
Going mobile is the perfect solution for capturing information, images, signatures and sending this information back to the office in real time. It removes the time consuming paper methods of entering and re-data from a manual to a digital format. It also allows images and signatures to be captured and included in the information sent directly to the office. It also reduces the risk of human error and improves the accuracy of the information captured.
Is security important to you?
Within any business, the security of data captured, as well as company information is of high importance. Utilising the cloud for field based processes, ensures that data is securely stored and accessed, with only those with the correct permissions being able to access the data. The company has full control over everything their employees have access to and removes the risky paper based methods where forms can be lost or damaged.
Are you sick of paperwork?
Considering almost 15% of an organisation’s revenue is spent creating, managing and distributing paper files and 50% (around 16 hours a week) of a UK business owners time is spent on paperwork, moving all paper based tasks appeals to businesses of all sizes! By removing the need for paper within an office, not only saves time and money but also the manpower needed for the filing and searching for information which can be stored safely and efficiently in the cloud. It also reduces the chances of error in terms of valuable documents being lost or damaged.
Are you looking to grow your business?
Becoming mobile and improving your business process in the ways discussed above, enables you to have time to grow and develop your business to move it on to the next level from where you are now. Enabling your processes to be smooth and robust leaves room for your staff to progress to reach their full potential.
Using a field mobility application, you can help your employees to become more productive and make the best use of their time. In turn, your business processes will become smoother and more robust and will result in a better service for your customers. The world is going digital, and hopefully some of these points will help you to understand whether you are ready to as well. For any further questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch and speak to a member of our team, we look forward to hearing from you!
