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It’s no secret that remote work or telecommuting was gaining popularity in the United States over the past decade. According to one recent study, about 4.3 million people work remotely at least half the time — a number equivalent to about 3.2% of the entire workforce....
3 Steps to Right-Sizing Your Tech Stack in the New Normal of Remote Work
According to figures, before COVID, only 7% of workers in the U.S. had access to a “flexible workplace” benefit or telework. Now, 64% of US employees are working from home now, according to research conducted by SHRM’s COVID-19 Business Index. This swelling of remote...
Phase 2 of Working from Home Activated
5 Tips for Maintaining Work-life Balance We now have worked from home for months, with varying degrees of freedom to move around. Depending on which country you are based in, you may be totally confined to your home complex or are able to run your errands in the city....
4 Factors that Will Make or Break Your Remote Work Productivity, According to a Major Report
In July, the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) published a policy brief with some tremendous evidence-based information on potential productivity gains from teleworking in the post-COVID-19 era. TL;DR Worker efficiency improves with low...
Ensure Agility and Continuous Process Improvement with BPM
Why do we need to transform business operations? Change is a continuous process. Your business undergoes frequent changes due to market dynamicity, competitive landscape, and futuristic strategies. Standard operating procedures and business processes undergo constant...
How to Measure the Success of Your Maintenance Team and Tell the Story of Its Wins
Maintenance teams do a lot of great things. There’s no debate about that. But what happens when no one hears about it? The answer: Nothing good. When maintenance teams don’t measure their success and promote their wins, it leads to everything from low morale to...
[Infographic] How to Win at Information Lifecycle Management
What Exactly is Information Lifecycle Management (ILM)? From Informatica: “Information lifecycle management (ILM) is the effort to oversee data, from creation through retirement, in order to optimize its utility, lower costs, as well as minimize the legal and...
Digital Records Management for Governments – The Road to Digitization, Compliance, and Beyond
The importance of robust processes and high-level security in managing organizational records and data cannot be overstated, especially for government organizations. Governmental organizations require various security and access control functionalities in order to...
Fiix mobile app: A tool to make your team’s life easier
A common challenge we hear within the Fiix community is convincing all members of your team to abandon their old practices and adopt new technology. Nobody wants to sacrifice wrench time for screen time and sitting at a computer station to manage and track work can...
4 Basics for Effectively Managing your Virtual Accounting Practice
When the world changed in 2020 and workers were sent home to do business just as they would have at the office, professional services firms — like accounting firms — became virtual overnight. It’s safe to say that this situation is decidedly more “unique” than most....
Transform Your Business Relationships with a Vendor Portal!
“Relationships with strategic vendors are increasingly key to business performance.” – Gartner As a business, one of the most important relationships is the one you share with your vendors. Your vendors have varied expectations based on their exposure to different...
Leading Change: How to Successfully Drive CMMS Adoption and Everboarding
Leading change ain’t easy. This is especially true when it comes to getting people to use new technology. Statistics show that almost three-quarters of IT projects fail and the numbers are even worse in maintenance, where 90% of CMMS failures happen because the...
Information Management: Your Secret Weapon for Information Security
According to a study by IBM, 24% of data breaches are caused by human error. Some of these breaches are the result of phishing attacks or poor device protection, while others are the result of routine document mismanagement. In other words, a large chunk of data...
Streamline Your Invoice Processing with Smart Data Extraction Tools
Product filters operate in the background on e-commerce sites to streamline the customer journey. These filters allow users to pick and sort the products they are searching for by using filter options, such as color, size, style, and pattern. This helps to save time...
Visibility and Control: The Cornerstones of Information Management and Security
Businesses have woken up to the reality of information access and management in a remote work situation. There are three immutable factors for remote work: Information is scattered across the enterprise – in network folders, in other archives, either in the cloud or...
RPA on Your Priority List? Embrace it Now to Weather the COVID Storm
When we were chalking out business plans in the board rooms, COVID-19 struck, affecting businesses globally and disrupting manual or partially automated processes. By now, we have learned to live with the pandemic around us. We’ve embraced the new normal of remote...
Webinar Recap: Fiix Forward Blueprint for Future Work
The way in which we all work has changed. For example, Fiix has transformed into a “digital-first” workplace, which has forced us to learn new ways of communicating with our community and each other. What does this mean for your organization? Or your team? Informed by...
5 Huge Reasons Why Business Consulting Companies Love Information Management Technology
If you’re a student of sales and/or marketing, then you know that you must provide value to your customers. And you must do it in terms of how your customers think about value and not how your company thinks about value. What you think are the greatest features and...