workflow management
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- noun
- Specialized
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gestión del flujo de trabajo
- Last month, Autodesk introduced its WorkCenter technical document and workflow management system.
Examples
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Workflow management means incipient designs can pass between pertinent mechanical engineers, analysts, and manufacturing engineers at the proper time in the design cycle.
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Box also integrates the ability to add comments and assign tasks for easy collaboration and workflow management.
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Still, version control and workflow management are the most often cited reasons to house engineering documents on a server.
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Business analysis, document workflow management, process management, and workflow allocation.
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"Basically," says Densmore, "it's fancy domain-specific data management and workflow management, but it's one of the things that this field desperately needs."
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The workflow management functions in Manta enable engineering managers to designate approval and change control procedures using block diagrams.
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Howie advises commercial printers and in-plants on benchmarking performance against industry leaders, increasing productivity through workflow management, adding and integrating new digital services, and adding value through customer research.
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Effective workflow management ensures that all team members know their roles and responsibilities, leading to increased productivity.
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Implementing workflow management systems can streamline communication and reduce errors in project execution.
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Good workflow management practices allow organizations to efficiently allocate resources and time across various projects.
Synonyms
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5.3
Ways and tools that help a company manage and improve its work
How people do tasks in a company or group
How Effective
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a straightforward composition: 'workflow' (how work flows/is organized) + 'management' (the process of organizing or overseeing), so a learner who knows both words can infer it refers to managing or organizing the flow/stages of work. This noun + noun compositional pattern is common cross-linguistically and therefore immediately comprehensible to B1 learners.
Etymology
Workflow management comes from thinking of work as a moving flow and someone watching that flow. The word workflow is like items moving along a belt (each task in order) and management is keeping that flow smooth, so it means 'planning and controlling the steps of work to make them faster and better'.