Author Archives: Steve Flick

How Do You Train Your Employees on Your Procedures?

Here’s a scenario: A new employee has to be trained on a particular procedure.  The person who normally conducts the training (the area supervisor) is unexpectedly out of the office for a couple of days, due to illness. You, the Human Resources director, prefer not to have the new employee sitting around while waiting to be trained. They ought to be able to familiarize themselves with the procedure; you believe this will help speed up the training.

You go to the work area to ask about getting a copy of the procedure; two employees volunteer their copies. You glance through their copies and find that (uh-oh!) they’re not in agreement. Parts of the procedure have been lined through and comments handwritten on them. “What about a master copy?”, you ask. (more…)

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7 Frequently Asked Questions about OnPolicy™ SaaS

During the “beta test” phase of developing our OnPolicy™ document management software, our beta testers have been coming up with great questions, some of which we thought we’d share with you in advance of our formal launch. For example:

1. What document formats are supported by OnPolicy™?

The OpenSource code behind OnPolicy will support many common document formats, such as: (more…)

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Software-as-a-Service Document Management and Control

Everyone is familiar with legacy documentation systems that use paper documents and manual filing systems for document control, because the up-front cost is low and we’re accustomed to them, so they don’t need a great deal of explanation. In fact, paper-based document management is not very secure, it doesn’t lend itself well to frequent backups, and it requires an enormous amount of time and physical space.

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10 Reasons Why SaaS Is Great for Your Business

It’s probably safe to say, given that “software-as-a-service” (SaaS) has been around in one or another form for as long as two decades (depending on where you look), that we’re all using SaaS somewhere in our organizations.  Web-based computing, cloud computing, hosted applications, or whatever you want to call it…there’s little doubt that somewhere in your company, someone is making good use of SaaS.

You could easily be using SaaS without knowing it: SaaS has become nearly ubiquitous. Policies and procedures, order processing, and many more requirements are being served by SaaS. (more…)

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Writing Procedures: The 10-Step Program

When many of us see change coming, we’re not sure what to do.  We sometimes fear or mistrust change, or we put off big problems because they’re “too much all at once”, and we stick with outdated, inefficient tools, methods, and processes.

Better the devil you know than the one you don’t.
Anon.

We sense that the way we go about developing policies and procedures isn’t producing satisfactory results, yet we keep at it. We can’t afford to continue doing what we’ve been doing if we’re to remain competitive. (more…)

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Why You Need a Policy Management System

Why do we bother documenting processes, tasks, and events? What purpose does documentation serve? And, if we’re going to do it, shouldn’t we do it right?

For years, Bizmanualz has offered policy and procedure manuals covering most of the business essentials — accounting, human resources, IT, and so on. We’ve done all the research, writing and organizing and provided you with valuable content.

And we delivered this information in Microsoft Word format, used by more organizations than any other kind of document processing software. (more…)

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7 Things You’ll Like About Cloud Computing

For large and small businesses, there’s much to like about cloud computing.  Cloud computing — basically, hosted services delivered across the Internet — is associated with “software as a service“, or SaaS. Cloud computing offers your organization a great deal of flexibility — you can readily adapt to momentary spikes in demand without investing enormous amounts of time, people power, and money. Here’s what else I like about cloud computing: (more…)

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