Automation articles

Running a small business can feel like a whirlwind—constantly juggling numerous tasks and roles while racing against the clock. What if you could reclaim some of that precious time? Enter task automation: your secret weapon for streamlining workflows and boosting productivity. Small businesses can benefit significantly by automating routine and repetitive tasks, freeing up valuable time and resources. Each minute saved can lead to greater productivity and profitability. This guide will introduce you to the ...

Let's be honest – AI can be overwhelming. The hype is everywhere, promising to revolutionise every aspect of business. Every business we’ve spoken to about including AI in their technology wants to do it but doesn’t know how. As a business leader, how do you cut through the noise and strategically leverage AI to achieve tangible results? This blog post aims to be your no-nonsense guide to AI implementation from a strategic perspective. We'll start ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a potent tool that elevates your workforce's productivity, efficiency, and creativity. However, its implementation comes with challenges and risks that businesses must navigate to harness its benefits effectively. Businesses must set clear ethical guidelines, often called "AI rules," governing staff interaction with AI. This ensures transparency in the use of AI for handling business data. Employees may only utilise AI with established guidelines, leading to missed opportunities for significant time savings.  ...

“Um…well…that’s interesting. The room falls silent. Shock. Did that happen? You thought it was the most wonderful time of the year. Or it was when you walked into the room. But there is always one joker in your team that thinks their gift is hilarious.  While everyone around you is opening up thoughtful gifts like the latest Jamie Oliver cookbook… a pair of scotch glasses, or some Happy Socks…. you're staring at some tea towels. ...

AI technology is advancing at an incredible rate, and it is becoming increasingly difficult to tell the difference between content that is generated by AI and content that is created by humans. AI algorithms are now able to generate highly realistic text, images, and even videos that are indistinguishable from those created by humans. This level of sophistication allows AI to perform a wide range of tasks, from generating personalised responses to customer inquiries to ...

During April, Intuitive IT was working hard on creating more efficiencies and automations in the business. In doing so, we thought it would be a good idea to share four key reasons to automate your business. As a Melbourne IT support company, we have access to skill sets that make the process of developing automation a lot easier than most. You would think that this would mean we're running a Jetsons-like world of bots and ...

Save your staff time and money by automating mundane tasks I wanted to start this month’s update by talking about an internal case study in automation and give you a real-world example of how a very small manual task once automated can provide a very big decrease in costs. This is something small business owners should be talking to their IT provider about regularly. Manual tasks within business cost time and money. Automation through the ...

  Early last week I received a call from a friend who was worried about a scam email he received. Initially, I thought “what’s the big deal?”. How bad can a scam email be? Just mark it as spam, delete it and move on.   He went on to explain that the scam message informed him that they had access to his computer and information on it. They “proved” this by stating they had his ...