Boost agility and manage costs with the DIY approach to innovation
Daily, there are stories in the news about how people are leveraging cutting-edge technology to achieve exceptional things. While these stories are inspiring, they often feel out of reach, especially for businesses who do not believe they have the budget, tools or skills associated with ground-breaking innovation.
But in a landscape of publicly available AI, rapid technological advancements and low-code development, innovation has never been so accessible. Businesses no longer need teams of technological geniuses or unlimited budgets to evolve their operations and overshadow their competitors.
Microsoft’s Power Platform allows you to leverage automation, custom app development, data storytelling and AI for a manageable cost and without expert skill. This newsletter examines how it all works.
Automate manual processes and save time
In business, time is precious. Most of us have limited time, and we want to spend that time doing things that will grant us the biggest rewards.
Unfortunately, it feels like most of your time is spent on the mundane tasks needed to keep things going. However, automation takes care of this, giving you more time to do work that fuels your passion and skills, and drives performance.
Power Automate enables you to easily build your own automated workflows to boost productivity and improve your capacity. See examples of how it can be used in our blog.?
Let your business data go further
Many businesses have access to vast stores of data regarding their performance, customers, finances and so on. This data can tell thousands of stories – yet it often sits buried in the business for nobody to see.
Power BI uses visualisation to make your data more actionable. Using it, you can craft compelling narratives around your insights which make it easier to engage other stakeholders and drive intelligent decision making. With better data intelligence, you can also boost performance across your organisation.
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Build your own custom solutions to niche challenges
Every business has unique obstacles to overcome, specific to your processes and people. But most out-of-the-box applications are generalised to multiple businesses.
Power Apps enables you to create custom solutions that are tailored to your challenges and extend the functionality of your core systems. Better yet, these solutions can be created by your staff, with no development experience needed.
It’s the easiest way to bring your innovative ideas to life.
Our top tips for encouraging innovation
We know that innovation is a huge buzz word, but what does it mean for businesses in real life? How can you encourage it across your teams as they go about their daily jobs?
At Infinity Group, we built our very own Innovation Lab to ensure innovation for our clients and our internal teams. By doing so, we’ve learnt a few things about how to do it right and (most importantly) practically.
Building the foundations for ERP innovation
Even the most traditional areas, like finance, are open for innovation. But it works best when it’s formed on strong foundations, with processes you know are working.
We’ve carefully crafted our Finance Health Check, led by our experts, to help you review the health of ERP system and identify opportunities to streamline and evolve.