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Agility, innovation and collaboration are three terms widely discussed today in corporate environments. This is because they are the ones that characterize high-performance teams, which really generate value for organizations inserted in today's complex and competitive environment. But to collaborate, be agile and innovate, team members need to rely on technologies that simplify their routine.
And this is not possible with old and obsolete tools, which do not allow systems to be integrated and end up hindering the exchange of information and data within a business. With them, instead of generating value for the business, the team ends up causing losses, even though this was not their intention. In today's post, we will show how the lack of integration of systems and tools can harm the team's performance and, consequently, the company's. Check out:
Not integrating systems makes collaboration and data sharing impossible
Old systems, created 7, 10 or 15 years ago, usually act in isolation and do not allow integration with other tools. Accounting software , for example, does not integrate with the finance control system. And this ends up forcing the accounting and finance departments to work separately, sending each other physical spreadsheets and reports with the data to be worked on.
Not integrating systems is highly detrimental to a business's productivity, as it requires professionals to spend more time writing or entering data into spreadsheets than focusing on activities that truly generate value for the business. The lack of information sharing, in turn, prevents departments from going hand in hand and acting together to generate better results.
Increasing the chances of errors and rework occurring
If the members of a team or the different departments of the company do not speak the same language, the chances of them making mistakes and generating rework increase drastically. And these reworks make them perform the same task or process two or more times and waste a large part of their time, thus reducing their performance and compromising business results.
These errors usually occur when transferring data manually. If an employee enters incorrect data into a spreadsheet and sends it to a professional in another department, the latter will also make a mistake. In other words, a single error will impact several departments. Only with integrated systems can manual data transfer be avoided, allowing error-free data sharing.
Preventing team members from innovating
Collaboration and constant exchange of information, in real time, are two factors that contribute to the team gaining greater capacity for innovation and creating better products or services. And as the lack of integration does not allow for collaboration or the quick sharing of information, the team ends up not innovating as it should and preventing the company from gaining a better position in the market.
If the IT team, for example, does not have access to data related to the experience of current customers and the desires of potential ones, collected by the support and sales teams, it ends up not knowing what the public wants. And without this information, it will not be able to innovate to create something that really exceeds the expectations of current and future customers, nor contribute to the generation of value and increase the company's revenue.
To avoid all these problems, the company must resort to integration through cloud computing, which guarantees the integration of systems and applications. With this technology, data flows securely between applications, without any interruptions. This prevents the company from having to manually pass on information and gives it more time to innovate and focus on tasks that will truly generate value.
And your company's systems and applications, are they already properly integrated? Tell us in the comments.
