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Accsys, winner of the Management of Innovation Award in the medium enterprise category  <\/p>\n\n\n

Now, why didn\u2019t I think of that?<\/h1>\n\n\n

Keep your eyes open, try different things and do the research. This in a nutshell is the innovation ethos that has kept software company Accsys on top of its game for 40 years. <\/p>\n\n\n

That\u2019s no mean feat considering how many companies birthed in a pre-digital era have quietly faded away as their products or services become obsolete. Think overhead projectors, video cassettes, compact disks, phone books and fax machines \u2013 all products that were standard business issue not that long ago. <\/p>\n\n\n

Accsys has been a leader in payroll and people management software for so long because it knows very well that having a market edge today does not guarantee you\u2019ll still have one tomorrow. <\/p>\n\n\n

\u201cYou need to be looking all the time at what you can do differently to keep current. That means being open to new ideas and keeping your eyes open for ways either to serve a need or create a need people didn\u2019t even know they had,\u201d says Teryl Schroenn, director at Accsys. <\/p>\n\n\n

Many urban drivers, for example, consider parking ticket machines at office blocks and shopping malls to be a necessary evil. Teryl used to be one of them until a few years ago, when she noticed a sign up for Admyt, a pay-to-park app that gets rid of parking tickets. \u201cNever having to worry about losing a ticket is a key part of my happiness,\u201d she says, adding that there are countless inconvenient aspects of modern life and business just waiting to be transformed in this way. <\/p>\n\n\n

Something that Accsys is seriously looking into in the access control part of its business, for instance, is padlocks that can be software-controlled so that companies no longer need to have keys for them. Teryl read about this concept somewhere in her quest for new ideas and then alerted the organisation to start working on it. <\/p>\n\n\n

But being constantly on the lookout for new ideas is not just the task of people at the top. \u201cIn smaller companies especially, everybody needs to think about what we can do to add to a solution or make it more stable, or to get systems talking to each other better.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n

While innovation is often perceived as developing something completely from scratch, the ability to tweak and tailor something that already exists is a key element of being innovative, says Teryl. <\/p>\n\n\n

A good example was how Accsys and one of its partners, ZKTeco, partnered to move their offering from tactile  biometric readers into state-of-the-art thermal detector readers to assist clients in safely managing access to their premises when the Covid-19 pandemic broke out.  <\/p>\n\n\n

Whether an innovation is brand new or an adaptation, it has to be backed by proper research, lots of conversations with clients, and a good, solid business case. \u201cThere has to be innovation with stability,\u201d says Teryl. \u201cIf you are running a payroll and you can\u2019t trust the results, all the innovation in the world won\u2019t help you.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n

Finally, a company must be willing to invest in innovation, she says. \u201cGood ideas take money to create.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n

Ends <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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