Boosting employee productivity is as simple as swiping right

Standing on a street corner waiting for the light to change the other day, I immediately looked down at my smartphone and noted that virtually everyone around me was doing the same. I realized that this is a fundamental shift in how people walk around town these days, with heads bowed, staring at their phones instead of looking up at the world around them.

This is just one in a long list of examples of how mobile phones have changed the way we live our lives. Not surprisingly, they are also beginning to change the way we work. Nothing illustrates this better than a recent survey by HR Review magazine (in the UK), which found that 70% of employees work from their mobile phones. Unfortunately, nearly half the respondents recognized that this practice negatively impacts their productivity. On the bright side, one-third of those said that what hinders their productivity is a lack of relevant smartphone apps.

Productivity on a mobile phone? Absolutely.

While employees won’t stop trying to use their smartphones for work, you can at least make sure they’re as productive as possible when doing so. In fact, the open, real-time nature of mobile communication provides a perfect environment for boosting employee productivity. Mobile apps that are seamlessly integrated and aligned with enterprise processes provide real-time access to information and enhanced collaboration, enabling faster decision-making, simplified tasks, and increased employee engagement.

If you have no current plans to modernize your enterprise legacy applications, extending them with the right mobile apps is a good mid-term solution for ensuring productive mobile usage without interfering with your existing systems.

Getting the most out of mobility

Maximizing mobile productivity requires apps that are designed with features and workflows tailored to a company’s unique business needs. For example, custom mobile apps can integrate seamlessly with ERP systems, CRM systems, HR software, and other internal systems. This decreases bottlenecks for employees by giving them instant access to up-to-date data and facilitating real-time interaction, enabling them to complete tasks from anywhere with minimal friction.

When employees can do things like retrieve previously siloed information, report their expenses, or manage inventory through mobile apps, operational efficiency increases, which can boost business growth. A more modern and satisfying user experience also increases employee engagement and provides a more attractive environment for new talent.

If you have no current plans to modernize your enterprise legacy applications, extending them with the right mobile apps is a good mid-term solution for ensuring productive mobile usage without interfering with your existing systems.

Swipe right for a competitive advantage

Customized mobile apps can make performing tasks as easy as swiping right or sending a text, and companies that empower employees on mobile will gain a competitive advantage. But the shift to mobile is happening fast, and developing the right apps can be complex and expensive. The question is, how can you get it done quickly with the resources you have?

No-code, cloud-native development tools allow you to quickly take advantage of mobile channels without having to rely on specialized development expertise or scores of developers you don’t have. As the name implies, no-code development allows even business users, or “citizen developers,” to build mobile applications without having to type a single line of code. Instead, it provides visual interfaces and drag-and-drop components to configure advanced workflows.

Using a no-code development tool such as Rappit Composer, business users, and developers can build and run fully integrated, highly configurable, cloud-native mobile apps for performing internal tasks in minutes. Productivity-boosting workflow apps that automate unique internal business processes can be fully realized in days instead of weeks. With automated cloud deployment, the apps offer seamless, real-time access to information and cloud services that maximize security and scalability for mobile environments.

Rappit’s no-code mobile app development gives employees the tooling they need to outperform the competition.

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