Transformational Change Underway


Monumental technology implications for the way we interact and work into the future

By Ken Garen, CPA

Transformational change is all around us, compliments of rapid advancements in technology.  This monumental change is no secret; one does not need to look far beyond the incredible rise in popularity of downloading any of your favorite apps to access or run a business, or reading a daily update on the well-publicized decline of the U.S. Postal Service - which recently announced it could default, while also announcing they were cutting 120,000 jobs and pulling out their health-care plan and the potential stoppage of Saturday mail delivery.

Practitioners need to get infrastructure in place to take advantage of the amazing changes that have begun to impact even the most common workday tasks such as receiving and sending information to and from clients, and searching the Internet given the ongoing browser wars - as search effectiveness can speed or slow business productivity and effect your firms visibility to search engines on the Internet.  By keeping open to new ways of embracing technology and how business gets done, productivity can increase without driving costs up or sacrificing customer service. 

Practitioners should select Payroll and Write Up software that allows them the flexibility to be able to take advantage of new ways of conducting business as they evolve. This includes the ability to easily use the electronic data from clients in the order that the client has sent it in. Your software should be able to automatically "remember" how your clients send you data so the import of that data is a one-step process.  This is critical from a quality control perspective and for getting maximum productivity from your staff.  You need to be able to smoothly adapt to the way that your clients do business rather than asking them to change their information technology or business processes for the purpose of giving you critical information in the way that you need it.   

There are two must-have Payroll and Write Up software capabilities that should be highly sought-after by practitioners, including:

  1. Payroll and Write Up software with the proven ability to immediately adapt to changes as they come up in new operating system platforms, and
  2. Payroll and Write Up software technology that easily interfaces in a straight-forward way (data can be accepted in any order) with other software to allow for electronic cross-data pollination.
This blog posting also appears on Ken Garen's TechWise Bloggers Crew blog, on AccountingWeb, at http://www.accountingweb.com/blogs/kengaren/techwise/transformational-change-underway

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

BMW traps alleged thief by remotely locking him in car

BMW traps alleged thief by remotely locking him in car Stealer's Wheel? Seattle police department quotes "Watchmen" movie in a recap of the recent arrest. Tech Culture by Gael Fashingbauer Cooper December 4, 2016 5:00 PM PST It's maybe the most satisfying arrest we can imagine. Seattle police caught an alleged car thief by enlisting the help of car maker BMW to both track and then remotely lock the luckless criminal in the very car he was trying to steal. Jonah Spangenthal-Lee, deputy director of communications for the Seattle Police Department, posted a witty summary of the event on the SPD's blog on Wednesday. Turns out if you're inside a stolen car, it's perhaps not the best time to take a nap. "A car thief awoke from a sound slumber Sunday morning (Nov. 27) to find he had been remotely locked inside a stolen BMW, just as Seattle police officers were bearing down on him," Spangenthal-Lee wrote. The suspect found a ke...
Read more

Report: World’s 1st remote brain surgery via 5G network performed in China

World’s 1st remote brain surgery via 5G network performed in China Published time: 17 Mar, 2019 13:12 ·           A Chinese surgeon has performed the world’s first remote brain surgery using 5G technology, with the patient 3,000km away from the operating doctor. Dr. Ling Zhipei remotely implanted a neurostimulator into his patient’s brain on Saturday, Chinese state-run media  reports . The surgeon manipulated the instruments in the Beijing-based PLAGH hospital from a clinic subsidiary on the southern Hainan island, located 3,000km away. The surgery is said to have lasted three hours and ended successfully. The patient, suffering from Parkinson’s disease, is said to be feeling well after the pioneering operation. The doctor used a computer connected to the next-generation 5G network developed by Chinese tech giant Huawei. The new device enabled a near real-time connection, according to Dr. Ling.  “You barely feel that th...
Read more

New ATM's: withdraw money with veins in your finger

New cash machines: withdraw money with veins in your finger Cash machine technology that reads the pattern of finger veins is already available in Japan and Poland   By Telegraph Reporters 6:59PM BST 15 May 2014 Cash machines could soon be installed with devices that identify customers by reading the veins in their fingers. The technology is already being rolled out in Poland, where 1,730 cash machines will this year be installed with readers, negating the need for a debit card and Pin. Developed by Hitachi, the Japanese electronics firm, the machines read the patterns of the veins just below the surface of the skin on your finger using infra-red sensors. The light is partially absorbed by haemoglobin in the veins to capture a unique finger vein pattern profile, which is matched to a profile. The technology is used by Japanese banks and also in Turkey, offering “groundbreaking levels of accuracy and speed of authentication”, Hitachi said, which in t...
Read more