Management software is growing increasingly essential component in business operations. Offering businesses ways to improve operational efficiency, productivity and generally help with the organisation of daily procedures, tasks and ongoing projects.
The problem these days is the huge selection of management tools that are available to offer help. It is important to understand which one best suits your business requirements and the role you need it to play.
Task management, process management and project management are the three most common ones. Selecting between these three can be confusing without comprehending the fundamental concept differences.
For example, you might have found yourself working with a process management app/tool and wondering why it’s not effective for your project.
Learning the differences between this main management software can help you to select the right tool and maximise the benefit for your business.
Business Goals – Efficiency, Productivity and conformity of tasks.
Business Example – Continuous ongoing management of tasks and business processes. Stop tasks being missed and create steps by step guide for everyone to follow to ensure everything is done properly. Schedule processes to deploy and allocate to the appropriate team member. Help manage time and prioritise workflow.
The benefit to business – Automated Business Processes give consistent results and the ability to share and document tacit knowledge.
Key System Features – Create checklists that offer a guide to get the best results and give customers the best possible experience. Enables trackable audit trail, with the power to analyse processes to increase productivity.
Data Benefits – Traceability, Reduce Mistakes, Accountability, Collaboration, Consistency, and Scalability.
BPM Business Process Management Software – Checkify, Process Street, Kissflow, Tallyfy.
Business Goals – Productivity, Task Organisation, Overview and Reminder
Business Example– Daily Tasks, One-off tasks, and the ability to prioritise tasks.
Benefit to Business – Focus, organise and prioritise tasks to
know exactly what to work on next.
Key System Features – To do list, set daily and weekly goals and free up mental space.
Data Benefits – See progress and productivity.
Task Management Software / Apps – Checkify, todoist, Wrike, Wunderlist. Monday.com, Notion, Teamwork, Asana.
Business Goals – Evolving Project with a set date for completion.
Business Examples – Individual one-off project.
Business Use – One-off project and goal.
Benefit business – Project documents and chat all in one place.
Key System Features – Team Planning, scheduling, collaboration, and tracking chat and discussions for the direction of the project.
Data Benefits – Documented chats, decisions and timescales
Project Management Software / Apps – Trello, Basecamp, Asana, Wrike, Teamwork, Microsoft Project