Business
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Competition – The Best and Worst of AP Automation – 6 Points
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Something I say a lot, when working with a company is, if you talk to 20 different service providers about Accounts Payable Automation you will get 20 different answers (or opinions) on the definition of automation. The definition itself is not the problem, but if you don’t have a common ground (like a definition) then…
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The Outcome and Impact of #APAutomation
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I tell people who are new to Accounts Payable Automation, whether they are a users, evaluator or salesperson the same thing. I tell them the problem with AP Automation is people don’t know what it is, how it works or the impact that it will have on their organization. Then a pause for a minute…
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Can Your Accounts Payable Process Withstand a Vacation? 4 Things
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Well, it’s unofficially summer, and what comes with summer are vacations. My (then) 7-year-old son said that he liked going on long car rides. In my opinion it was a strange thing for a 7-year-old to say so I asked him why he liked long car rides. He said it gave him plenty of time to…
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With AP Automation There Are 4 Things People Realize
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lRealization is a wonderful thing. I remember with my second child was about 10 months old, she couldn’t talk, but she could crawl. She would motor around the living room from end table to end table opening the little boxes that my wife had perfectly decorated. When she opened a box there was, to her,…
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How Many Touches Can An Invoice Take? #APAutomation
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My angle on the title was the old school commercial of how many licks does it take to get to the center…. well you know. Touching paper is nothing I talk with people about, so when I was talking with someone who was already automated in AP and he told me touches was his internal…
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Ups and Downs of #APAutomation Change – !
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In my book The 8 Pitfalls of Accounts Payable Automation, I wrote that the process from decision, purchase, implementation and go live was like riding a roller coaster. In the spirit of this article there are 5 ups and downs during the starting and ending process of change that you will go through with Automating…
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Conference Call Video… Just For Fun
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It has been a long time since I have posted anything that didn’t have to do with Accounts Payable Automation… but today is the day. Check out this video – if a conference call was live: Want to know more? Buy My Books! To buy the book – The Argument to Automate – How Innovation…
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5 Signs You Are Doing Well in #AccountsPayable
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I have been on a stretch lately where I have been writing about the pain that paper brings to an account payable process. I would like to change that by writing about AP departments that are doing well and how you know you doing well. This is my own person crusade, but on occasions I…
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Can Tony Soprano Run An Accounting Department?
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I know… I have written some ridiculous articles in my time, and this one must really looks like it’s out of left field. Well, hang with me. Last year I wrote an eBook called “Could Steve Jobs Run An Accounting Department?” As far as 2014 went the Jobs book was the most requested and second…
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How About Something Funny!
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Corporate American got you down? Imagine working on this project: Want to know more? Buy My Books! To buy the book – The Argument to Automate – How Innovation Can INSPIRE Not Fire – click here to buy (Also) To get your copy of The 8 Pitfalls of Accounts Payable Automation – click here to buy How…