Meaningful automation for your business.
Spend more time on value-added activities.
Create value for your customers.
Automating meaningful business processes presents a well-known challenge and opportunity. Whilst automation has a long history, its implementation has frequently fallen short, leading to frustration and failed transformation initiatives.
There is no silver bullet to automating complex things at scale, however through a repeatable process many of the challenges can be overcome, and with the necessary planning, significant business progress can be achieved.
Automation takes practice.
We have worked with large enterprise and cloud-natives at all stages of their automation projects. Each stage presents a specific set of challenges that our experience can help you work through.
1
Building a strategy
Challenges
Getting stakeholders on-side
Finding clarity from the noise in the market
Choosing a suitable technology and approach
2
Getting started
Challenges
Early goals are set and missed creating a crises in confidence
Difficulty in drawing conclusions from the data collected
Project teams often lack the experience to create business plans to unlock long-term future investment
3
Scaling-up
Challenges
Specialist skills in compliance and regulation are required which don’t exist in-house and are hard to hire for
Operational resilience and moving towards a 24/7 business can be a big unknown
Cross-functional solutions may not have clear ownership lines and responsibilities
4
Continuing
Challenges
Finding out what’s next
Justifying ongoing investment into existing solutions so their value doesn’t degrade over time
Retaining key staff is difficult once they have gained valuable real-world experience in a very competitive sector