Automation might be a technical concept, but its application is not technical. In fact, it happens everywhere.
Automation happens everywhere. For example, when you’ve paid for something your bank might send you a notification about your account being debited. When you apply for a job, you get an email confirming your CV has been sent out. This all happens automatically, without you needing to push a button.
With Next Matter you connect a string of tasks that will automatically flow from one person to the next:
You can also automate complex tasks that together create a workflow connecting multiple tools and teams. For example, you can automate:
and hundreds more…
In a nutshell, workflow is a set of steps that gets you from A to B. Come to think of that, even preparing lunch is a workflow starting with getting the bread out and finishing with placing the plate in a dishwasher. Workflows can:
You will be able to create and participate in all kinds of workflows in Next Matter.
Next Matter calculates how much time automation saves you every week.
We assume that each completed step saves you, on average, three minutes.
Not only does the time saved on the activity itself count but also the hidden cost of lost focus and employee overwhelm. Research indicates, that one context switch alone costs 23 minutes and decreases overall employee satisfaction and health.
Indeed, your very own Next Matter use cases might lead to a different minute average per step. Still, looking at the research and having analyzed and discussed this with our customers over and over again we are confident that this figure is conservative.
That’s why the calculation we use is the following: (Steps completed this week x 3 minutes) / 60 = Hours saved this week
Additionally, it’s worth mentioning that each Next Matter step automates many aspects of operations at once: