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What is workflow management?

Workflow management is currently a term that is used widely across many industries. Whether you are in accounting, legal services, real estate or mortgage broking everyone has been looking at how they can automate routine tasks, speed things up or improve the overall customer experience.

The COVID-19...

6 Tips for Remote Onboarding

Businesses are being forced to reinvent their onboarding processes due to the current coronavirus pandemic and subsequent stay at home directions.  

I decided to head out, ‘virtually’ of course, to find out what has changed.  I interviewed some new starters during the pandemic to see how we...

Virtual Process Improvement

Like many businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic we have been faced with the challenge of how to continue delivering our services without any face to face contact with our clients.  Our process improvement workshops have traditionally been delivered through co-design sessions using whiteboards...

The 3 Key Steps to Going Paperless

I’m just going to throw a few statistics at you to give you an idea of the current sad state of affairs in offices in Australia and around the world. Okay here we go…

  • Did you know that by March 2018 only 4% of Australian offices had successfully transitioned to a ‘paper-free’ working environment?...
The Future of Law

The legal industry is not usually synonymous with the word innovation. It is notoriously regimented and has remained largely unchanged in today’s rapidly evolving digital world.


But time is up and the COVID-19 global pandemic might be the tipping point.  Working remotely has been changing the th...

What is a business analyst anyway? And why it’s more important than ever.

After posting my last Reflections of a Business Analyst blog, a business associate said he shared it in his monthly company newsletter. He then commented that he still didn’t actually know what a business analyst does but it sounded really cool. I realised this is actually a question that I am asked...

Legal Process Improvement and Remote Working: What’s the Connection?

In the current climate of sudden change, many legal firms will find it challenging to transition their current paper-based processes to a remote working environment. Being that remote working will be the new normal for a while, legal firms need to reassess their legal processes in order to become mo...

Reflections of a Business Analyst

I’m starting to understand how integral the role of the business analyst will be in the shaping of this new world saturated with technology and choices and I thought I’d share a few little nuggets of my insights from client projects and conferences in 2019.

I also think it’s a testament to how import...

How to write a good user story
With new technology, changing customer expectations and the need to offer more value for money businesses have been forced to think more about their processes and systems. Many of our clients have the problem of not knowing where to start in a technology project. It can all seem so overwhelming with...
Backlog refinement - Do you groom your user stories?
Sometimes words make us feel a little uncomfortable. I have found in my position as a business analyst going into different types of organisations who are embarking on technology projects for the first time, that “grooming” tends to be one of those words. Whether or not you like the word, it has a v...