Improving Productivity

A time-tested way to improve performance of business processes is to increase transparency. A process that everyone can watch is a process people can comment on, suggest improvements, and determine if it even makes sense to be doing in the first place.

One of the ways New Signature can help your organization increase the transparency of its processes is to conduct a through process review with key stakeholders. In it, we will:

1. outline the cyclical processes that take place each day, week and month;
2. identify the review points, potential bottlenecks, and areas that are ill-defined;
3. go over the existing documentation (as well as the process to update said documentation); and
4. suggest potential changes (both on a technology and a process level) to speed changes.

The last point is important.  Often the problems with a process are not simply a technology problem. Some vendors might come in and say “Purchase SharePoint Server!” as a potential solution without fully understanding all the facets of the challenges.  At New Signature, before we make a recommendation we want to ensure that we know all the facts.  Although Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (and soon Microsoft SharePoint 2010) are great solutions, if the real flaw in the existing paper-based process is an overloaded manager, or an ill-defined review system, simply converting that system to a computerized model won’t solve the problem. Instead, we focus on the heart of the problem, and once solved, provide real recommendations for the best problems to fix.
Working with New Signature, what was an opaque process can become completely transparent. With many of the technology solutions in the market today, we can even publish a process to an area where your staff, as well as your clients, can see what stage a project is in, increasing satisfaction throughout.

Technology solutions have been shown to increase productivity, and New Signature continues to lead the way. We have been certified by Microsoft as specialists in both Project Server and SharePoint, and we’ve helped deploy many other project management and productivity enhancement tools (from a range of vendors) for our clients. Call us today to work with New Signature to improve your office productivity.