Future Automation: How to build an enduring competitive edge in a changing world? [Video]

Blog: Future Automation – How to build an enduring competitive edge in a changing world?

Intelligent Automation, Intelligent Process Automation, Hyper Automation, Intelligent Hyper Automation are among many buzzwords used to describe business automation. Behind these confusing terms are dozens of different technologies and ways of using them, which often lead to misconceptions.

This article argues that the buzzwords – or even diving deep into the specific technologies behind them – are not that important to deriving value from automation. But what should you pay attention to?

Future Automation

What is the direction of the road ahead?

From Efficiency to Strategic differentiation

The focus on automation-derived business value quickly morphs from today’s efficiency-led goals to strategic differentiation, business agility, and continuous value realization.

We are past the times of expensive and risky projects such as traditional ERP implementations. The returns on these investments were often questionable, and because all ERP solutions use best practice processes that are very expensive to customize, creating strategic differentiation was …