As businesses strive to stay ahead of the competition, they are now turning to automation technologies to help them remain competitive. In 2023, it will become even more prominent as businesses leverage decision-automation, smart algorithms, AI, and machine learning to streamline processes. From customer service chatbots to automated supply chain optimization, and financial adjudication, business automation is evolving rapidly and new trends are emerging that will shape the future of business operations.

Too often, teams try to take on too many difficult concepts at the same time in their projects. This can lead to confusion, team disconnect, a lack of progress. At worst it can lead to incorrect planning, failed and lost deliverables, even outright project failure.

Business automation is the process of automating business decisions in order to improve efficiency and accuracy. Automating these decisions can yield a number of benefits, such as improved accuracy, speed and consistency including critical ones that impact the bottom line.

What's the difference between strategy and planning? Many people use the two words interchangeably, but they actually have different meanings. Strategy is about making decisions that will achieve your desired outcome, while planning is about putting those strategies into action. We'll discuss the difference between strategy and planning, and why it matters for your business

Discussing speed in business has become synonymous with topics of systems and servers, networks, and devices -- if your technology screams then your business will too. What gets shuffled to the side is the speed of access to accurate, and timely, data, knowledge, and insight for your team, customers, clients, and stakeholders alike.

Speed in business is much more than servers and technology, it's data movement, accuracy, and team support.

Customer Experience Needs to Come from Every Corner of your Business with guest (Communication Coach) Ric Phillips. Your business success is intrinsically linked to your customer's experience with your product or service. Creating a memorable and lasting customer experience should always be your team's one priority.

Today, on digBiz Guest Podcast Appearance we discuss the entrepreneur's journey, challenges, successes, how to embrace failure, working with your team and building a culture ready to strive for excellence.

Your business success is intrinsically linked to your customer's experience with your product or service. Creating a memorable and lasting customer experience should always be your team's one priority.

In order to be successful in today's business climate, it is crucial to be operationally agile. This means that you need to be able to rapidly make decisions in order to adjust the utilization of your supply chain assets. This can manifest itself in a number of ways, such as modifying production lead times, manufacturing cycle times or lot sizes. By being able to react quickly to short-term demand and supply volatility, you can stay competitive in today's market.

Multi-factor authentication (MFA; 2FA…etc) is a digital authenticator process where a user presents 2 or more verification methods to grant access to a website/application with another level of security. 2FA protects your devices, accounts, and data (which may include personal information,  physical location, database or financial assets) from being accessed by an unauthorized user or third party. A single password is not always enough as they can be revealed through other unlawful methods.

A single password is an essential security measure, but often not foolproof.

Automation is the key to growth. By automating simple tasks, businesses can free up employees to do what only they are capable of doing - automation frees them up for more complex work or even allows them to take on new roles and responsibilities within the company.

It's been widely reported, and widely felt, and both for the most unfortunate. A new zero-day exploit has been reported targetting the well-established Log4J2 library allowing an attacker to remotely execute instructions. The vulnerability has been reported with CVE-2021-44228 against the log4j-core jar and has been fixed in Log4J v2.15.0.

The first, in a series of discussions on automation's place in workflow and its ever-evolving effect on business culture and innovation.

I thought our driveway was narrow before. Then we got a new car. I had to rethink my mindset on how to see things -- literally.