Task manager: managing activities in the retail world
04/05/2023
Tasks, tasks, tasks – and more tasks! Our lives are always full of activities to complete, remember, or jot down before the day ends.
But what are they and how do we organise them? How do we note down the activities to be done?
Tasks are assignments we record in various ways: on scraps of paper, in a notebook, on a napkin at the end of lunch – each of us with our own order and on whatever medium is at hand.
Very often, these methods cause unnecessary paper waste in our daily lives and, at the same time, we risk forgetting an important activity… perhaps because we accidentally threw that napkin in the bin.
At the same time, we collect an indescribable amount of data across different systems: Word, Excel, notes, txt files, or uploaded to Google Drive – or we simply forget that the file converted into a PDF is in a colleague’s folder, which has been accidentally deleted.
At Aton, we started from these very principles to design a new module for the .onRetail store management application. This module not only digitalises all those everyday operations we carry out on paper, but also brings everything together in a single tool, enabling different company stakeholders to consult the collected data.
I like presenting this module because, even from an initial discussion with various organisations, multiple usage ideas emerge. Here are a few examples:
.onRetail easily adapts to different business needs and therefore makes it possible to:
.onRetail is a single, highly flexible system that opens the door to collecting various types of data (numbers, text, images, videos, questionnaires, etc.) in multiple ways.
Operations previously carried out on paper and across different systems are now digitalised, tracked, and stored in one place – a significant advantage both in terms of the quality of store operators’ work and from an environmental sustainability perspective, in line with the 3Ps of our manifesto: People, Planet, and Prosperity.
We are committed to designing digital innovation solutions and services that help our clients make their businesses increasingly efficient and sustainable – first as a Benefit Corporation and, since February 2023, as a certified B Corp, part of a community of over 6,500 companies worldwide that meet high standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency.
In light of this, I can confidently say that .onRetail aggregates, unites, and paves the way to a new world and a new way of collecting and managing data, placing at the centre the People, who will be guided in their work, and the Planet, which will see a few less scraps of paper flying around.
