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24/09/2024

Have you ever heard the term "sweatshops"?

Sweatshops first emerged during the industrial revolution in the 19th century when factories relied on cheap labor to produce goods quickly and at low cost. These workplaces were notorious for poor conditions—long hours, low pay, and unsafe environments. Workers, including children and immigrants, were often exploited due to a lack of better job opportunities. The term "sweatshop" refers to how workers were "sweated" or overworked to maximize output with little regard for their well-being.

You might think sweatshops are a relic of the past, but what if I told you they have a modern-day equivalent in today’s digital world?

Consider these eye-opening statistics:
- Over 3 hours per day are spent on manual, repetitive computer tasks, on average.
- 67% of employees struggle to finish their work on time due to the burden of repetitive digital administrative tasks.
- Around 50% find such tasks boring and a poor use of their skills.
- 40% of employees don’t look forward to going to work in the morning.

Is it any surprise that employee morale and engagement suffers under these conditions? This digital drudgery mirrors the sweatshop model, raising concerns about both productivity and employee mental well-being.

But there’s a better way. For example, more than 80% of workers say they would be attracted to companies that embrace automation. With rapid advances in AI, the workforce of the future will likely consist of humans, robots, and intelligent agents working together.

Are you ready to embrace this workforce of the future?

17/09/2024

According to ABBYY’s State of Intelligent Automation Report 2024, companies are already investing heavily in AI with FOMO (fear of missing out) being a key driver — 63% of global IT leaders are worried their company will fall behind if they don't adopt AI.

In fact, many are doubling down on their investments — a whopping 96% plan to increase AI investment in the next year. Of these, 40% plan to raise their budget by as much as 30%.

Notwithstanding the obvious business benefits such as increased productivity, enhanced decision making and greater customer satisfaction, concerns about AI persists. These concerns include:
- Potential for AI being misused in the company
- The cost of implementation
- Potential for AI hallucinations leading to inaccurate information
- Technical complexity
- Lack of talent/expertise
- Concerns about copyright and data protection
- Legal and Compliance risks
- The amount of data required to train models
- Lack of internal governance capacity
- Risk of a negative impact on our reputation

With potential misuse by staff being the biggest concern (35%), it is vital that companies have their own AI policies in place to govern the responsible use of AI.

For example, given the proliferation of Gen AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, all companies ought to have a corporate policy in place to ensure its usage within the organization is ethical, and in compliance with all applicable laws, regulations, and company policies.

If you have not yet put in place such a policy, fear not. Simply submit a request using the link below to receive an editable template which you can freely customize based on your needs:
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10/09/2024

In today’s fast-paced digital world, delivering exceptional customer service is no longer optional — it’s essential. According to a recent study by Harvard Business Review Analytic Services, 93% of organizations agree that every interaction with a customer directly impacts their overall experience — for better or worse. And what’s the key to optimizing those interactions? Automation and Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Automation and AI are revolutionizing how businesses approach customer service, providing a wide range of benefits, including:
- Improved customer satisfaction
- Greater data-driven customer insights
- Reduced/optimized operating costs
- Improved agent efficiency/productivity
- Increased sales/revenue
- 24/7 customer service availability
- Improved agent satisfaction

But here’s the catch: implementing AI comes with its own challenges. Many organizations struggle with fragmented tools, skills gaps, and data security concerns. However, for those who have already embraced AI, the results are clear — 71% of businesses report that the value AI brings is worth the investment.

The time to start is now. Click on the link below if you would like to see a demo of our AI Customer Service Agent solution and learn how automation and AI can transform your customer service:
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04/09/2024

Gartner has recently released the Magic Quadrant for Robotic Process Automation (RPA) for 2024.

Some observations:
- The leaders are Automation Anywhere, Microsoft, SS&C Blue Prism and UiPath (in alphabetical order). Interestingly, the number of vendors under evaluation has declined even though the RPA market itself grew 22% in 2023.
- Given the hype around AI, many RPA vendors are actively embedding AI into their automation platform and marketing it as an AI-powered automation platform.
- In particular, notwithstanding the fact that most RPA platforms are already low-code, many RPA vendors are investing heavily in co-pilots that can translate natural language into automation workflows. If successful, this will help make RPA software more accessible to a larger audience and boost its appeal.
- The RPA industry itself may be on the verge of a seismic shift. By combining automation with AI, it is possible to overcome some of the inherent limitations of the RPA technology such as the need for structured, well-defined processes and data sources. The emergence of AI agents and agentic workflows might just herald a new era or RPA v2.0.

What do you think?

28/08/2024

Amidst the current AI hype, industry analysts are starting to sound the alarm bells. For example, Gartner predicts that at least 30% of generative AI (GenAI) projects will be abandoned after proof of concept (PoC) by the end of 2025.

Some of the common challenges encountered include:

• Misalignment with business goals — Many projects fail because they aren’t tied to specific business objectives. Without a clear connection to improving efficiency, reducing costs, or driving revenue, GenAI initiatives struggle to demonstrate value.
• Technical complexity — GenAI is not a simple solution. It requires significant expertise to develop, train, and deploy models. Organizations often underestimate these complexities, leading to frustration and project abandonment.
• Data issues — High-quality, diverse data is crucial for GenAI success. Poor data quality or lack of access can result in inaccurate outputs, diminishing the project’s perceived value.
• Unrealistic expectations — The hype around GenAI often leads to inflated expectations. When results fall short, organizations may lose faith and abandon the project.

To avoid these pitfalls and getting struck in PoC purgatory, companies should instead start small, and then scale fast. Similar to other technology rollouts, the choice of the initial use case is critical to the success or failure of the GenAI initiative. Fortunately, there are now a ton of resources on GenAI use cases depending on your industry or business function.

For example, in customer service, the top GenAI use cases include:

• Personalization
• Agent Assist
• Report Generation
• Employee Assistant
• Chatbots and Virtual Assistants
• Conversional Analytics
• B2B Omnichannel Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS)
• AI-Enabled Contact Center
• Media Intelligence
• Customer Care Agent Assist — Live Call and Post Call Analytics

Are you ready to embark on your own generative AI journey?

21/08/2024

According to Section’s AI Proficiency Report, there are 4 types of adopters when it comes to AI:

• AI Class — They use AI for everything, and would be very disappointed if they no longer could (88%). They’re saving as much as 12 hours a week by using AI – in part because they’re very good at using it.
• AI Experimenters — They haven’t fully integrated AI into their daily work, but use it once a week and report small productivity gains (a few hours a week).
• AI Newcomers — They use AI a few times a month at most, have received no formal training, and haven’t unlocked significant productivity gains yet.
• AI Skeptics — They almost never use AI and they’re not saving any time with it. They haven’t received training, and their prompting skills are the worst of the bunch.

While it may seem like everyone is using AI (e.g. ChatGPT) these days, in fact, the so-called ‘AI Class’ only constitute 7% of the knowledge workers. But the benefits that this ‘AI Class’ are getting out of AI are outsized: more than a third report saving more than 30% of their time at work each week.

For organizations who are looking to ‘nudge’ their employees to adopt AI and boost productivity and innovation, consider the following recommendations:

• Integrate AI into your employee’s everyday routines and workflows
• Get your employees to learn the basics of good prompting (i.e. provide context, clear instructions and well-structured instructions)
• Go beyond standard AI use cases: besides using AI as an assistant, AI can be used as a content creator, a personal mentor, a researcher, and more
• Invest in AI tools that bring immediate value to your employees, e.g. an AI Customer Service agent that can help to respond to routine customer inquiries

The Age of AI is truly upon us. As the saying goes, the journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. What is the step that you are taking towards AI enlightenment?

14/08/2024

The recent CrowdStrike incident is a timely reminder that lightning does strike. In today’s highly digitalized and connected world, ensuring digital resiliency should be a key tenet of every organization’s business continuity plans. This would start with identifying and evaluating critical IT systems that are vulnerable to outages and disruptions, with a significant operational impact.

In recent years, many companies have embraced Robotic Process Automation (RPA) as a means to automate mundane, menial tasks, allowing their employees to focus on higher value work. While the ability for RPA to improve productivity and reduce costs is undoubted, not enough attention is being paid to the risks inherent in RPA.

Indeed, the RPA bots’ ability to perform thousands of read, write, and deletion actions at high rates of speed poses unique risks to enterprises’ systems and data. For one, this can make it difficult to identify logic and processing errors—and their associated consequences—before serious damage is done.

Back at the start of 2024, we made the following bold prediction:

“The proliferation of citizen-developed bots is raising concerns around governance, compliance and security. Citizen developers, while well-intentioned, may inadvertently introduced logic flaws and security vulnerabilities that may compromise entire systems. Also, the rise of shadow IT is reducing the visibility of IT and security teams of the various threat vectors that are lurking within the organization. We expect the outbreak of a major RPA security breach to be the trigger for an industry rethink on how to discover, mitigate and monitor such threats.”

Case in point: The General Services Administration’s (GSA) Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently released a report that recommended GSA to strengthen the security of its RPA programs. Some of the findings made included:

• GSA’s RPA program did not comply with its own IT security requirements to ensure that bots are operating securely and properly
• GSA did not consistently update system security plans to address access by bots
• GSA’s RPA program did not establish an access removal process for decommissioned bots, resulting in prolonged, unnecessary access that placed GSA systems and data at risk of exposure

We believe this presents merely the tip of the iceberg, and more needs to be done to enhance the security posture of RPA bots.

If you would like to receive implementable recommendations on how to improve the security and resilience of your RPA program (including vendor-specific ones), get in touch with us now for a complimentary discussion.

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07/08/2024

Selecting the right use cases for enterprise AI agents is crucial for successful implementation and achieving desired business outcomes. Unlike traditional RPA bots, AI agents can reason, make decisions, collaborate, and take actions to pursue goals, enabling them to automate a wide range of business processes. Choosing the right use cases maximizes the impact of AI agents and secures organizational buy-in.

Here are a few ideas on where to start identifying potential use cases for AI agents within your business:

- Evaluate your existing RPA pipeline to identify processes which may be more suitable for AI agents than RPA bots.
- Review your existing RPA processes, in particular the upstream and downstream activities, to identify opportunities to increase the automation scope with AI agents.
- Business processes that are well-documented and have available Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are ideal use cases to train the AI agents on.
- Adopt an inside-out approach: focus on internal back-office processes first before looking at the client-facing, front-office tasks. This will enable you to achieve a good balance between risks and rewards.
- Start with the proven, popular use cases such as Invoice Processing Agent, Employee Onboarding/Offboarding Agent, Customer Success Agent, Digital Marketing Agent, etc

Still unsure about where to get started? Get in touch with us now to schedule a free demo of some of the AI agents that we have implemented.
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31/07/2024

The pace of technological advancement today is simply relentless. For example, it seems almost as though a new state-of-the-art large language foundational model gets released every other week.

Amidst this constant barrage, how do business leaders make sense of all the different technologies and more importantly, identify and implement those capabilities that will truly bring a sustainable competitive advantage to their businesses?

For executives that are focused on hyperautomation, Gartner’s Emerging Tech Impact Radar is one useful guide. For the uninitiated, hyperautomation is a management philosophy that everything that can be automated should be, typically through the application of AI and automation technologies to business processes and workflows.

The guide reviews the key hyperautomation technologies including:
- Computer Vision
- Intelligent Document Processing (IDP)
- Advanced Virtual Assistants
- Digital Twins, Graph Technologies
- IoT Platforms
- Process Mining/Task Mining
- Process Orchestrators
- Blockchain for Business
- Decision Intelligence
- Intelligence Business Applications
- Smart Robots
- AI-Generated Composite Applications
- Bio-Inspired Algorithms
- Brain-Machine Interfaces
- Data Fabrics
The technologies are evaluated based on their time to adoption, as well as the estimated scale of impact on existing businesses.

One key takeaway?

Companies would do well to prioritize investments in IDP given that the range and mass of impact is estimated as “now” and “high” respectively. In Gartner’s words, “IDP is gaining in adoption as a catalyst of transformation for modern enterprises by automating data extraction and document processing projects. Having exhausted low-value, text-based automation capabilities, organizations will eventually move to implement high-value, efficiency-driving and cost-saving-oriented next-generation end-to-end document processing solutions.”

To learn more about IDP, please visit the link below:
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24/07/2024

The rapid emergence of generative AI and large language models have alarmed many traditionists. Among other concerns, many are worried that AI might displace and replace existing workers and lead to mass unemployment.

As the saying goes, “history doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” Such anxieties and fears over technological advancements are not new.

Take automobiles as an example. Cars were invented and made widely available in the late 19th and early 20th century. With more than 100 years of hindsight, the utility and benefits of the motor car is indisputable. But this was not always the case.

For example, in 1896, Washington DC banned these “horseless carriages” (as cars were commonly known then) on the grounds that they threatened the livelihoods of horses.

But that’s not the main point here. The thing to realize is that the world is messy and complex which makes it extremely challenging to make any predictions reliably. Consider the equine industry today.

Do you know that the annual economic impact of the equine industry is significant — involving some $300 billion dollars and 1.6 million full-time jobs. Most people outside (and many within) have no idea of the global scale and significance of the equine industry.

Not many people would have predicted this, but the equine industry is in fact thriving. The automobile industry didn't annihilate the equine sector; it diversified it. Horses transitioned from being the primary mode of transport to being used in sports, leisure, and therapy.

Hence, as we stand on the cusp of an AI revolution, it is important to remember that technology in itself is not a zero-sum game. AI can reshape the future of work without eliminating it.

17/07/2024

Sustainability reporting has become a critical aspect of corporate governance, driven by increasing stakeholder demands for transparency and accountability. Unfortunately, the need to identify, collect, process, report and monitor large volumes of complex data can overwhelm even the most dedicated teams.

For example, according to a Deloitte survey, 57% of senior executives highlighted that data availability and quality remain their biggest impediment with respect to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) data for disclosure. Other challenges in sustainability reporting include:

- Aggregation of Data: Gathering consistent data from various business units is complex and prone to inconsistencies.
- Diverse Reporting Standards: Multiple reporting frameworks make it challenging to produce uniform and comprehensive reports.
- Stakeholder Expectations: Meeting the diverse demands of stakeholders for detailed and tailored disclosures.
- Staffing: Currently staffing levels are inadequate to meet the demands of increased ESG disclosures.

To address these challenges, many organizations are now turning to technologies like Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) to transform what has been hitherto a manual, time-consuming process. Some of the ways where RPA and IDP can help to improve the efficiency and quality of the data management and reporting process include:

- Automating the collection of data from diverse sources, applications and systems (both internal and external)
- Extracting ESG data from a variety of document types, including structured, semi-structured and unstructured documents
- Compiling the ESG data into the required reporting formats and templates
- Performing checks to identify and eliminate errors in data entry and calculation
- Tracking and reporting on progress against specific environment targets, e.g. carbon emissions

As companies continue to prioritize ESG objectives, leveraging technologies like RPA and IDP can go a long way to ensure that the data management and reporting process are themselves sustainable.

10/07/2024

What's the difference between RPA and AI?

On the most fundamental level, RPA is associated with “doing” whereas AI and ML is concerned with “thinking” and “learning” respectively. Or brawn versus brains, if you like. In addition, RPA projects tend to be process-driven, whereas AI projects is highly dependent on data.

Despite their differences, it is important to realize that RPA and AI are nothing but different ends of a continuum known as Intelligent Automation. Indeed, with the rapid emergence of generative AI, you can now have the best of both worlds: With stand-alone large language models, you have access to a powerful brain, while RPA bots add the arms and legs.

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