Process Street is the Compliance Operations Platform for teams that need workflows to run in the right order, with the right people, and with proof that every required step was completed. Teams use it for everything from employee onboarding to content promotion workflows.
Some processes are too delicate to run as a free-for-all checklist. Stop tasks give you more control over the order tasks are completed by pausing a workflow run until the blocking task is done.
There’s a lot of advice on the internet. Some of it is good, some of it is terrible, and some sits in the gray area between.
Within the fields of tech and startups, a lot of what people do day to day is influenced by what they’ve learned online; I doubt many people reading this article learned in school how to effectively market a product over Instagram!
Sorting the good from the bad is a challenge we all face, and one we have to become better at as individuals and as a society.
Improving our ability to analyze information doesn’t just mean identifying fake news, though we will look briefly at it. It also means being able to take a second look at informative journalism and the reporting of research; the kind of information which you might use to inform big business decisions. We’ll look at:
At the end I’ll follow up with the 10 step process you can use to improve your analysis. This process is pulled from the recommendations of Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman, and Michael Shermer, and repurposed for your professional needs.
But first, let me tell you a little story…
With today’s fast pace of living, it’s vital to have on-the-go access to everything that’s important to your work.
Rather than staring blankly out of a window on your train or bus to work, you could then instead be planning your day and organizing meetings, or commenting on tasks and sorting through your inbox to avoid getting distracted at the office.
However, with the sheer variety of technology on offer it’s also difficult to know what mobile apps you should be using.
That’s why I asked the Process Street team to share the best mobile apps for business they have installed and how they use them.
From the most valuable apps across our entire company to one-off niche cases that could do with a little more exposure, in this article I’ll highlight the apps that let our team stay productive and make every moment count.
Are you ready to market your SaaS product to enterprises? Do you know what makes or breaks a million dollar deal?
There’s a huge segment of SaaS companies that target only SMBs, and an increasingly well-funded bunch that go after the enterprise market from the outset. Some, like Dropbox, Asana, and HubSpot, have gradually scaled their products to meet the needs of enterprise customers. By looking at their enterprise-specific landing pages, we can isolate the key factors these companies have chosen to persuade enterprises, and find out what works.
What connects a 75% drop in infection rates, a 48% increase in home rebuilding speeds, and an extra 400 hungry families receiving the supplies they need to get by?
Have you guessed yet?
That’s right. Effective process analysis and implementation. Specifically, the Toyota Production System process analysis and implementation.
In this article, we’re going to look at some of the heartwarming success stories of process implementation carried out by the Toyota team.
The human side of organizational systems demonstrate the importance and effectiveness of learning and understanding how to create continuous improvement in your processes.
Throughout these examples we’ll see a number of key Toyota concepts employed and how they worked in practice:
From disaster relief to pediatric hospitals, the benefits of strong process analysis are clear for all to see.
On August 25th, we launched a library of 1000+ real sales and emails from the top 280 SaaS companies.
The library was hosted on a microsite, Inside SaaS Sales, which allows users to browse the full sales cadences, organized in the order the message or voicemail was sent.
The launch landed us almost 800 votes on Product Hunt, 10,000+ site visits, a mention in Hiten Shah‘s SaaS Weekly, and publicity from the SaaS and VC community.
Launching a website can be a huge undertaking. A successful launch requires managing many moving parts including content, design, marketing and the technical side. That’s why we have created this handy checklist for you to use on your next website launch or redesign.
And don’t forget, you can get this as an interactive checklist that you and your team can collaborate around. Just create a free account with Process Street and grab it from the examples section.
A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of GDPR.
It seems to be the one thing everyone in the data security industry is talking about, Equifax aside…
Articles are being written, consultancy firms are popping up, and businesses are quietly panicking.
Yet, like so many grand legislative changes, many people are unsure what GDPR is, how it could affect their business, or whether they should even be worried about it at all.
In this article, we’ll be looking to clear up some of those misconceptions while presenting actionable steps for how companies can go about adjusting to the coming changes. We’ve scoured the available resources to find the answers to our concerns about GDPR and now we’re sharing it with you.
(Still employ a consultant though. As you’ll see, there’s too much at stake not to!)
We’ll explore not just the impact on European companies but also companies outside the European market who process or control data which could come under the scrutiny of these EU measures. SaaS companies like Process Street will find themselves needing to adapt their services for their large European clients, and if you work within the SaaS field you might have to do so too.
Before we go further, let me give you a Too Long; Didn’t Read:
The best short summary of the ethos of GDPR I’ve read comes from Wired:
For companies that have more than 250 employees, there’s a need to have documentation of why people’s information is being collected and processed, descriptions of the information that’s held, how long it’s being kept for and descriptions of technical security measures in place
The GDPR broadly sets out:
At the end of this article, you’ll find a free Process Street checklist which uses ICO recommendations and Article 29 Working Party advice to guide you through assessing your company’s GDPR readiness!
Websites are delicate, messy, and hard to manage effectively. Setup might be easy, but a beginner learning to maintain a website will hit a damaging snag sooner or later.
The main problem is that the tech behind any website is complex for beginners. The files that run your site are written in multiple different languages, depend on each other’s fixed locations, and are controlled by config files. In short, there’s a lot to grasp when you’re starting up a website.
To avoid making mistakes you need a basic knowledge of SQL, cPanel, and phpmyadmin, as well as a general idea of why and how websites work. Like I learned the hard way, tiny tweaks or careless uploads can take the entire site offline for days at a time, which is especially damaging when you have a recurring audience of any kind.
In this post, I’m going to go through the methods you’ll need when maintaining a website, and give you processes you can follow for each task.
Dictation software isn’t just something that can save you time by typing out your speech and performing commands. Talking instead of typing can and will help you prevent lasting damage to your hands.
You might think that sounds silly, and so did I.
I’m 23 – way too young to be worried about my joints or work-related injuries (my work isn’t exactly manual labor).
Then my hands seized up. Repetitive strain injury.
