Where to Start Your Digital Transformation: 20 Processes That Should Be Paper-Free
Thomas LaMonte

By: Thomas LaMonte on October 18th, 2016

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Where to Start Your Digital Transformation: 20 Processes That Should Be Paper-Free

Paperless Office  |  Digital Transformation

Simplicity is an undervalued commodity of modern business, and as seen through efforts to purge paper processes, simplicity has the potential to add real value to many organizations. Efforts to drive out paper are an essential foundation to creating a more simplified, user-friendly, and changeable enterprise, but these efforts must be supported by business technology, process, and leadership, which advocate the same. Most importantly, our mindset needs to change. Simplicity is often synonymous with lesser value. Often complex functionality is what attracts senior management interest and investment dollars to the cause; complex solutions take space at the head of board meetings, while simple solutions often only find room at the kids' table.


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But complexity is not by virtue an asset; often, complexity is just a waste of time. As we move away from legacy mediums like paper and aging technology from the early millennium and take into account the expectations of the modern worker, a balance must be struck between functionality and usability. All secure, efficient, and successful enterprise processes aren’t complex—though they can be—but they can equally be simple, and often there is a unique added value to advocate for lighter and cleaner processes.

In addition, where full-scale ECM/DM systems were traditionally cost prohibitively for many organizations—particularly SMBs—simple enterprise solutions today are increasingly affordable, requiring a fraction of the investment while helping organizations quickly achieve digital transformation and respective ROI.

20 Processes Ripe for Paperless Transformation

Chart: At what rate are you converting key processes to paper-free?

  1. Accounts Payable (invoice processing
  2. Accounts Receivable (customer payments)
  3. Customer on-boarding
  4. Claims processing
  5. Records management
  6. Manufacturing
  7. Logistics
  8. Order fulfillment
  9. HR (recruiting and applicant tracking)
  10. HR (on-boarding, employee management, and off-boarding)
  11. Contract management
  12. Customer loyalty programs
  13. Supply chain management
  14. Legal
  15. Technical documents
  16. New account opening
  17. Mortgage origination
  18. Loan processing
  19. Patient care administration
  20. In-bound mail and forms

Where will you start your digital transformation? In what processes can you ditch the paper?

 

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About Thomas LaMonte

Thomas LaMonte is an AIIM Market Intelligence Analyst well versed and credentialed in the fields of ECM, ERM, and BPM with a heightened focus on solving the operational problems of today’s businesses.