What speaks for your cloud?

Grow or shrink?

How many companies do you know that still use typewriters? And how do you assess the market for riding whips over the last 100 years?

When there is a technological breakthrough, the quick ones not only win, but they can also reach heights that previously seemed unrealistic.

Well, such a breakthrough has happened through the virtualization of hardware. In the future, for example, you will no longer have to struggle with hardware problems. But more importantly, it is the development that followed.

The foreseeable end result will be artificial intelligence running your business, controlled by you. But there's still a long way to go until then.

First, all your data and processes must be digitized. This alone already provides an incredible competitive advantage, giving you a market lead that amazes me every time.

That's exactly what we should talk about if your company doesn’t want to be left behind due to productivity disadvantages.

The future of your company doesn’t depend on whether you are willing to work 80 hours a week or whether your employees are motivated or what salary class they are in. The future of your company depends on whether you are willing to recognize, accept, and implement the signs of the times.

If you are, the real goal of being an entrepreneur will once again take center stage: More freedom and leisure with higher monetization.

The implementation

·   Virtualize hardware
·   Digitize data
·   Define processes
·   Choose or code software
·   Automate processes
·   Implement control layer
·   Build dashboard

Implementing these steps has taken years in our company because we had no one to show us the way. Nevertheless, it was worth it from the first moment. The savings immediately exceeded the costs.

The implementation

What problems could arise?

"We’ve always done it this way"
As an entrepreneur, you should be naturally willing to change. To what extent this applies to your employees and, for example, your accountant, and how we can make the necessary changes appealing, needs to be discussed.

If your employees realize that all repetitive, meaningless tasks disappear and their work becomes more interesting as a result, it’s an easy sell. But you must decide whether to use the newly available productivity in your company or prefer to save costs.

This is actually the only significant problem in this transformation.

Case Study 1

Before:
Two full-time employees handled accounts receivable and payable in a company with 15 employees. Still, it wasn’t enough. Unpaid overtime, declining morale, and lack of motivation were the result.

After:
The effort for total bookkeeping was reduced to 1/2 a working day per week. Increased, not decreased.
Due to other productivity gains, the entrepreneur can now handle the bookkeeping themselves and has more control.
Savings: €84,000 p. a.

Case Study 2

In times of skill shortages and lack of motivation, it is difficult, if not impossible, to build a team of highly motivated A-level employees. Countless hours and resources are wasted on demotivated applicants. If your company enters a growth phase (see Case Study 3), it is usually hindered or even counteracted by the acute staff shortage.

Through a predefined process, the initiative is transferred to the applicants, and the first steps are automated. This ensures that only motivated applicants, who have already proven that they truly want the job, enter your recruitment process. You are then left to choose the right applicants or reject them with a click. It’s like diving into an almost inexhaustible pool of qualified candidates and picking out the best.
Productivity increase: priceless

Case Study 3

Your new customer acquisition, whether B2B or B2C, should be 95% online. If your numbers are below that, you still have enormous growth potential.

Getting there will take a lot of time and effort, but once you succeed, the door to worldwide distribution and new business connections will open. You have the means to finance it (Case Study 1), the ambitious staff (Case Study 2), and now you can face this challenge with open eyes.

Once you have clearly defined the respective processes and established a working method, you should specialize in controlling and let your employees do the work. People grow with their responsibilities.
More revenue, less effort