Companies around the world need to save costs and avoid wasting precious time – now, more than ever. While productivity and efficiency will always be something we can improve on, technology will play a key part in improving company efficiency and streamlining the way we do work.
Here’s five ways we can save costs, improve productivity, and do better work overall.
1. Implementing innovative technology
Technologies such as blockchain technology, artificial intelligence, machine learning and automation are key to the process of work. They help us by doing the parts of jobs that are monotonous, time consuming and repetitive.
Artificial intelligence, for example, can do many of the analytic and monotonous tasks that managers and executives currently do. This then frees up time for those employees to spend more time on things that are directly involved in the improvement of the company.
This doesn’t mean having an in-house team, either. It can mean merely implementing one of the variety of platforms available on the market that are backed by artificial intelligence and machine learning.
2. Ensuring that you have a solid strategy
A section of saving costs is having a solid strategy in place. This is particularly important when it comes to your company’s digital strategy. Some strategies and technologies may not apply to your company at all. Implementing them would be a waste of time and effort.
Choosing specific technologies that are valuable to your business will help you to understand how digitalisation can help you. It will also ensure that your company has a strategy in place, as well as a deeper understanding of digital implementation, and do not lose unnecessary time and costs due to disorganised implementation.
3. Creating good relationships
Customer and partner relationships sit at the core of saving costs. When it comes time to budget and to save costs, you want to be an indispensable part of a company’s strategy. Fostering good relationships is key to this. Delivering the best service and ongoing support is a sure way to create and continue these relationships as well.
Partner relationships is also incredibly important. Maintaining good professional relationships with your suppliers and vendors, whether upstream or downstream, will be key to maintaining efficiency, fostering trust and saving budget.
4. Keep track of your data
Data is important. It’s what helps our companies continue to function, allows us to delivers analytics to support our roles, and provides visibility and transparency over our company value chains.
In mining and transport companies in particular, this is especially important. One key issue with data is a lack of visibility over fuel and supply chain data in global mining companies, which is why we created STAMP Fuel – to deal with the massive amounts of fuel loss in the sector every year.
STAMP Fuel integrates with pre-existing platforms to centralise, secure, and analyse fuel data. This means that all of your data is one place and easy to access, without excessive costs and implementations. Blockhead have also created STAMP Supply, which provides the same data insights but with supply chains.
Companies need to know to know where their data is going. Platforms that are backed by blockchain and/or artificial intelligence can help you get there.
5. De-traditionalising company processes
Many companies still use traditional software and business approaches. While these can have their place, in many cases they set companies behind and prevent ongoing growth. Growth often comes from innovation and holding onto traditional ways can stop us from moving forward.
However, this doesn’t mean that companies should abandon their processes altogether. Moving towards innovation and company improvement by changing smaller parts of the company structure can make a massive difference over time. For example, implementing a new digital software to replace a legacy platform can largely change company processes, save money, and also ensure better efficiency across the entire company.
Blockhead Technologies creates solutions that are designed to secure and analyse your company data while also delivering better efficiency and affordability company-wide. You can find out more here or contact us here or at [email protected] for more information or a demo.