How Digital Workflows Transform Businesses into Sustainability Champions
Business leaders are prioritising sustainability. Globally, more than 80% see sustainability as an investment to optimise costs and protect their organisations from disruption. In Asia Pacific alone, 52% of surveyed respondents are taking sustainability issues more seriously and with greater urgency.
At the recent 43rd ASEAN Summit, state leaders highlighted digital and green economies as priority sectors to strengthen ASEAN’s position in the global economy. While this ongoing commitment to sustainability shows promise, businesses can still do more to meet global sustainability targets by 2030.
One solution to meet your sustainability goals is implementing digital workflows. Deciding where and how to use digital workflows will be key to a sustainable business strategy.
How Digital Workflows Can Lead to Sustainable Business Growth
Digital workflows use technologies to automate and streamline business processes, facilitate communication, and improve collaboration. This includes digitising workflows, automating manual tasks and using cloud-based software and tools.
It's not only about converting your documents into digital formats, but also about developing workflows that optimise how you use your company's resources and minimise their environmental impact.
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How Digital Workflows Help Businesses Achieve Their Sustainability Goals
- Reduces Dependence on Paper
- Reduces Carbon Footprint
- Improves Employee Productivity and Efficiency
Even in the digital age, global demand for pulp and paper remains high. Shifting to digital workflows can lessen this dependence on paper by digitising and automating previously paper-based processes and transactions, such as archiving documents, filling up forms, and signing contracts.
However, when your business does need paper, you can switch to using certified environmentally friendly paper to make sure you’re sustainably sourcing paper products.
By automating tasks, there will be fewer mistakes due to human error, which often contributes to wasted resources and higher energy consumption. These benefits reduce your company’s overall carbon footprint. In fact, by shifting to digital workflows, companies have reduced their carbon emission by up to 20%.
You can also ramp up your efforts to reduce your carbon emissions by using eco-friendly and energy-efficient devices to support your digital workflows.
As digital workflows are more streamlined and accessible, they help your team become productive, efficient, and engaged. Organisations become 42% more efficient and 74% more productive for every dollar they invest in digital workflows.
This increased productivity and efficiency result in more revenue opportunities, which you can invest in making other business areas more sustainable.
Explore Digital Workflow Processes for Sustainable Business Development
There are many ways you can adopt digital workflows to improve your sustainability efforts. Here are some digital processes you can easily integrate into your workflows today:
- Digitising Data Entries
- Digitising Signatures with e-Signatures
- Digitising Documents Management
- Digitising Management Functions
Data entry may not be the most exciting part of office work, but it still needs to be done – and it’s easy to transform digitally.
Many organisations, especially those in the Financial Services and Insurance (FSI) and medical industries still rely on handwritten forms people have to fill in at the bank or clinic. Now, with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) these handwritten forms can be digitised for streamlined data entry. By digitising data entries, companies can reduce human error and the time it takes to enter the data.
In the current digital age, businesses would still deliver contracts via postal mail, courier and deliver hard copies back and forth. This outdated system causes errors and delays and uses significant resources.
Digital contracts speed up the turnaround time for getting contracts approved. It makes the contracting process more convenient for both you and your clients. With e-signatures, your business doesn’t need to print out multiple document copies as you route them for signatures, cutting back on paper and printing costs.
In the past, keeping important business documents took up significant office space and resources. Think towers of filing cabinets and endless stacks of paper documents. Today, you can keep your records on cloud-based document management platforms.
Using digital working folders will allow your employees access office documents securely from any location, supporting operational efficiency and productivity for any work arrangement.
Digital workflows cover various functions, including accounting and finance, HR, and project management. Digital tools like scheduling software and task dashboards empower project managers to work more efficiently and effectively, regardless of location.
For example, digital colour management is replacing visual colour assessments and physical printed packaging samples. This enables companies involved in printing and packaging to reduce their materials waste and shipping requirements, which can significantly cut their carbon footprint.
Digital Workflows for Efficient and Sustainable Organisations
Realise your sustainability goals, especially if positioned effectively at the heart of your business strategy and operations. By switching to digital workflows, you can reduce your carbon footprint, cut spending on materials, and improve overall productivity and efficiency.
Contact us today to kickstart your digital workflows for sustainable business growth.