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Business Value

Improves marketability of your product or service - Professionally created documentation improves the product or service image; it demonstrates that you are serious about your business. Technical writing services provide qualitative value: quality perceptions, satisfaction, confidence, and usefulness.

Increases effectiveness of business processes - Documentation assures consistent implementation of processes and procedures by formalizing existing business activities. This facilitates the monitoring and improvement of processes, procedures, and policies.

Supports training of new and experienced employees - Online help files, reference manuals, and user guides provide a means for business personnel to learn independently on how to use the product or service. Computer based training, and other electronic media, supply training for new and experienced personnel. Documented operating procedures reduce the time to train new employees and assist experienced members to consistently execute procedures. 

Transfers documentation tasks from managers and technical personnel - Technical writing services provide a way to offload documentation assignments from supervisory and technical  personnel. This allows key business personnel to concentrate on their core business competencies.

Facilitates changes in business - Providing documentation eases organizational changes that occur during acquisitions, work force reductions, mergers, and reorganizations. Technical writing services create an audit history, provide efficient and consistent documentation processes, and maintain regulatory standards. 

Captures critical business knowledge - By documenting existing operating procedures, the business knowledge is captured, thus reducing the dependence on a few employees. Collaborative documentation provides a way to coordinate activities between departments or within a department. Cross-functional communications standardize how processes are implemented between departments and provide a single resource for geographically dispersed organizations. 

Reduces customer support expenses - Customer support expenses are reduced because customers have a resource that provides solutions to their problems.