From procurement purchases to customer onboarding, many processes have bottlenecks that cause some sort of interruption or delay. It could be a computer, a person, a department or an entire work stage. Don’t let it stop at each point, make sure automated workflows and reminders are in place.

The bigger the organisation, the more complicated the processes get. Approvals from Management could take weeks to confirm. Make sure every Stakeholder gets notified at each relevant stage of the process to keep it moving.  

Mundane, repetitive tasks and actions take very little cognitive functioning, which makes it boring for some. These tasks get left for last, lay forgotten or sometimes even ignored. Automate these tasks – your team will thank you for it and so will your CEO. 

Improving operational awareness is crucial to maintaining a competitive advantage. By managing and analysing a company’s data, you can create strategies to help make better, more effective decisions by mitigating expenses, boosting revenue, increasing efficiency, and identifying sales trends. 

Instead of designing charts and reports, use the natural language features of Power BI to ask questions, getting visualised data in return. You can specify the way the data is presented — ask for “total sales by region by month as a line” — or let Power BI pick a layout that suits the data with a more general question like “what were the sales numbers for last quarter?” 

Without data, how do you know who your customers are, which products are popular, and if your marketing efforts are effective? How do you know how long your products take to go through the manufacturing line and then to the customer, and how much revenue your company is making? Data is key to understanding your customers and your business.