Blog tagged as Business process improvement

3 Steps to Digital Success
Digital transformation is about fundamentally changing the way you operate to deliver value to your customers. Digital transformation involves rethinking how your organisation uses technology, people, and processes to develop new business models and revenue streams. The need for digital business mod...
Visualising your work
The key to any business improvement initiative is to apply a consistent approach. As many organisations are unlikely to have business process improvement specialists employed in-house it is important to adopt an approach that will make sense to anyone performing continuous improvement activities on ...
Adapting your processes to an emerging hybrid workplace
Transitioning to more permanent hybrid working models in 2021 is going to be a challenge for many organisations. Flexible working is here to stay and many businesses will need to adapt their processes to effectively manage some staff working from the office and some working from home.  I’m sure...
The 3 P’s: Policy, Process and Procedure

I am often surprised at the number of organisations that don’t know the difference between a policy, process or procedure, which I will refer to as the ‘three P’s’ in this blog. Security policy, security process, security procedure sounds like the same thing, right? It’s not. There’s a reason w...

8 Tips for Remote Offboarding

This blog is a follow on from my 6 Tips for Remote Onboarding. It would be remiss of me to give you tips for onboarding without giving you tips for offboarding in a remote environment. This is particularly relevant where I am right now in Melbourne, Australia which is experiencing it’s second COVID-...

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 thi...

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...