Technology is advancing and so is the way your business is running. Change can be tedious at times, but it’s important you adapt, and adapt quickly in order to keep up with today’s world. You will most likely find yourself or your business using various new technologies whether to test out different aspects of your business or to improve efficiency. 

The top 3 technologies used by most businesses today are:

1. Artificial Intelligence

2. Collaboration and Productivity Resources

3. Data

If you’re using these technologies or are considering taking the next step, then continue reading to learn how they will impact your organization and integrate with the current tools you’re already using. Ensure that these technologies are implemented correctly in order to help your business grow. 

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

AI has been around for a while, but has become increasingly more and more popular amongst today’s tech industry. This is due to technological advancements, such as: speech recognition, machine learning, and image analysis. 

One of the most common uses of AI are automated chatbots for business websites. These chatbots generate quick responses to customer questions in order to assist employees in their daily task work and overall improve the company’s efficiency with their customer relationships.

However, AI can be tailored in various ways besides automated chatbots and services like Alexa or Siri. 

AI benefits

To ensure AI will be a good fit for your business consider what your goals are, how you will succeed and generate ROI.

AI is a great investment and most times, is extremely beneficial for a diverse range of industries. 

Our suggestion would be: before jumping in, maybe try out a few introductory projects and analyze the success factors. If you find it’s helping your business, then take the next step and invest! 

Collaboration and Productivity Resources 

Communication is integral to run any type of business smoothly and efficiently. Even more so with the increase in remote work, especially with COVID-19. It’s no shock then, that collaboration and productivity resources are gaining more of a heavy emphasis for everyday work. 

Apps that help with this are: Yammer, Slack, Microsoft Teams, and so on. Besides collaboration, there are tons of benefits to gain from apps like these. Although, if not properly implemented, there can be a lot of challenges that arise. Instead of increasing productivity, you could end up doing the complete opposite. 

Implementation Notes to Keep in Mind: 

• Choose a tool that can be easily integrated: Any form of feed or messages would be useless if it takes multiple steps to get to where you’re going. (e.g. important conversations in Slack) 

• Structure and Governance: Without this, the employees taking part will get confused in the app and will not be able to be efficient and productive as intended. 

• Research: Besides the tools mentioned above, there are a plethora of available resources to choose from. Ensure you do your research to choose the best possible tool to increase your business’ collaboration and productivity. 

Data

Everything revolves around data. From the base of the organization to the top in terms of research, marketing and developing, data is more significant than ever before. 

However, many companies make the mistake of collecting enormous amounts of data and not setting enough time aside to analyze it in order to properly interpret and incorporate the results from the research. You must make a plan, an outline, in order to make proper use of the data. 

How? 

Be specific! Narrow down your end goal: what are you looking for? If you begin just naively searching, you will get stuck and go down an endless rabbit hole. Ensure the research being conducted and the data being collected is relevant to your business needs. And do not, I repeat, do not over-collect. This will only consume a lot of unnecessary time and take away any form of productivity.

The more you narrow in on your objectives and think about what you want to achieve as an organization, the easier it will be.

Need Help Implementing New Technologies?

We can not only help you come up with a plan to implement the new technologies, we can help you understand them. A lack of knowledge is the biggest factor in failure, if you want to succeed you need to learn. 

We can also go over some custom software ideas for your organization, in order to ensure the technology is specifically tailored towards your business.

Contact us today for more information!