Business Systems Health Check

Business Systems Health Check2025-03-26T14:05:42+00:00

Is it time for a Business Systems Heath Check?

When you hear the word Health Check, it’s natural to think of a visit to your GP, clinic or hospital for a check up in order to get an overview of your current health.  After various tests and examinations, you then get feedback to confirm if all is well, you need to make lifestyle changes or maybe there are some priority issues to pay attention to.

The same can be said for your business information systems. Over time, unchecked, they can easily become less than fit for purpose.  Your systems will not automatically update to reflect changes in your business.

Neglecting your systems will leave them out of alignment with your overall business strategy and unable to respond to the needs of your customers.

Our unique Business Systems Health Check has three steps:

  • Step 1: Preparation

    We will carry out a strategic review to gain an understanding of your business, and its challenges and opportunities. Alongside this, a system review will cover licences, modules, upgrades, disaster recovery etc. to give us a full picture of your business. Business systems might typically include ERP, CRM, HR or just Finance.

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  • Step 2: Inspection

    Your employees who use the business systems will be invited to complete a comprehensive questionnaire. Although this is wide ranging, it is by no means daunting. The purpose of this exercise is to gather full feedback on how they currently use the software as well as any off-system work that has sprung up.

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  • Step 3: Results

    This step focuses on creating a summary, but thorough report based on the findings from the detailed work in the first two steps. We suggest achievable ‘next step’ actions that deliver a benefit or address identified issues, and move you forward on your Digital Transformation journey

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Our Business Systems Health Check presents you with a summary action plan proposing steps needed to ensure your business information systems meet your objectives, remove inefficiencies and safeguard your investment.

These are presented in a format that can be used to support internal justifications or board papers, etc.

Telltale signs it’s time for your Business Systems Health Check

As businesses and markets evolve, business systems will start to show signs of diverging from alignment and becomes less and less of a business enabler. Using the latest lean thinking, Gradient’s consultants can help you streamline your processes and working practices and integrate them with your system. Taking a look at the questions and statements below is the start of the process to getting your Business Systems Health Check

  • There is still a reliance on separate bits of software

  • We waste time entering data

  • You’re using a variety of different systems

  • Re-entry of data occurs within my business

  • We ask multiple people for one piece of information

  • How easy is it to know the state of the business?

  • How difficult is it to produce accurate forecasts?

  • Ultimately, could my business be more competitive?

  • Do we have department/function specific databases?

  • Do we have multiple versions of the truth?

We’ll help you make an informed decision:

March 26th, 2025|

Almac return to Gradient to get further System Selection support from Gradient. The Almac Group had already previously worked with Gradient on a System Selection for a finance system. This time a HR system was needed for their expanding workforce.

Contact us or call Gradient now on: +44 (0)1282 463 710

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