Calculating the Cost of Day-to-day IT Tasks
Automation is a great way to help optimize your business processes, provide consistent customer service, and allows your team to get time back in the day to focus on more strategic tasks, all while reducing the chance of errors. There are huge benefits to leveraging automation, but what is the cost of not automating?
Instead of repetitive, mundane tasks, team members are freed up to focus on high-value work. To figure out whether a process is worth automating, start by understanding what it costs you not to solve the problem. We have broken day-to-day tasks down into three cost categories.
1. Time
If you or your team were to breakdown the time you spent on different tasks each day, likely some of them aren’t worth the time you’re spending on them. Automation allows employees to shift their focus from reactive to proactive, strategic work, which adds more value to the business.
What are the manual tasks you do frequently and/or on a scheduled recurrence? What could you clear off your plate?
2. Money
You can calculate a dollar amount for these day-to-day tasks by multiplying the number of people and hours the task takes to complete, the cost per hour for each team member involved, and then multiply that by the number of times you complete the process in a year. The results may shock you!
What are tasks you’re spending time on that need to be done but aren’t strategic or don’t move the business forward? Every minute you spend doing a task that could be automated is less time you are investing in projects that can positively impact the business.
3. Effort
Who doesn’t want to do more with less? Especially when doing less doesn’t mean you are sacrificing quality, instead, automation is reducing the chance of error.
Spend more time doing what you want to be doing, and less time doing what you don’t. This seems obvious but a lot of times we get into routines and don’t stop and look at the time we spend on tasks. Should you trade short term effort to get automation set up for long term gain? The answer is probably yes.
By understanding the cost of not automating these processes, it can help you and your teams understand the benefits it brings and how they can utilize their tools more effectively to streamline operations.
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