Integrate software automation for business growth

In the last six months, I received many requests for software automation projects compared to other types of software development - web applications and mobile applications. The reasons may vary from business to business but, business software automation is necessary for business growth nowadays.

Your business is running successfully, and you are creating an optimal profit margin. On the other hand, your competitor is growing faster than your business growth and attracting your customers despite having minimum human resources.

You ask yourself, "Why and how is his business growing without much effort?"

I couldn't reason about how your competitor's business is growing. But I could tell you about why he is growing. The answer is Software Automation.

Software automation allows your business to have concrete decisions without human intervention. It follows written business rules and therefore finds better solutions rather humans. Humans are great for creative decisions but, software automation is good for rule-based decisions.

There are two options left for you either keep pushing yourself and find very creative ideas for business growth or keep losing your customers against competitors. One of your creative ideas may start attracting your customers in the end. But what next? How will you protect your business afterward?

Again the solution is, integrating software automation in the business processes so that you won't need to engage yourself in monotonous decisions. You are supposed to find creative ideas for business.

In those hard years of mine, I did finish many automation projects and found the following steps for starting software automation in any business unit.

Find a decision-graph

An automation program takes decisions according to a decision graph. And your job is to find out all steps that you follow for deciding anything. It takes great effort from you and your team. 

You should, however, know the importance of the decision-making process. Suppose you and your team need mental energy or creative thinking for your decisions, then my advice is to stop further. Your business requires creative energy, and you can't hand over its decision-making process to any automation tool.

I can't trust machines for creative thinking and therefore advise my clients for the same.

On the other hand, you could start automating those tasks that need the written rules and constraints, simple calculations, or logical thinking. Machines are good at it.

Now, you have to find out complete decision trees and decision joints - where different people need to provide their inputs.

Create business rules

Your decision tree allows you to write complex business roles. Sometimes, I found clients aren't aware of those rules, and they have not written them anywhere. And all business decisions are taken abruptly.

You could start writing the rules so that an automated tool can use those rules. Those rules go into a machine thinking process. All logical units start working on input data and then perform logical steps based on the written rules and generate results.

One thing to remember, if decision rules have some problems, then the machine result will also be inconsistent. 

My advice is to follow these two steps even if you are not going for software automation. Because these are abstract and you can see how your business makes decisions.

Hire software automation team

This step requires special attention. Because here onwards, third party vendor or your automation team starts learning about business.

There are different ways to find the right software automation team or IT outsourcing team. I won't go into the detail of it. Though you should remember development team can make or break your systems.

And you could take special precautions over it. Software automation is not easy, and experience in the field is rare.

Push software automation gradually in the business

Now, things are getting very tough onward. You started integrating the software automation, and your development team is creating the tools. How are you going to push the changes?

Remember, human nature resists the changes. And your customers may not take automation naturally. You should, however, divide your business into different sections and then start pushing software automation gradually.

Doing so, they won't feel the changes. 

In my own business, I created many automated tools that are doing my works; finding architecture failure during development, managing internal reports during code reviews, finding schedule slippage during development, and many more. And these tools allowed me to keep my team size small and gave me enough time to come up with many other creative ideas.

And one of the ideas is to start hardware automation because hardware and software automation is the future.

Looking at prospective clients' requests, I am creating a small team for software automation so that my other team can still provide support for IT outsourcing services - website application development, mobile application development.

At last, if you are looking to get started with software automation or any other IT outsourcing service, then it is the right time to get your free quotation from here.