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May 3, 2022 • 22min
158. The Power of Design Thinking with WonderBotz - Part 2
Transformation Requires Out of the Box Thinking
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Technical talent goes a long way when deploying technology, but when you are looking for transformation, it requires the ability to think differently about how you might achieve the outcome, based on what you know about the technology. On this podcast, Xina Seaton speaks with four Blue Prism Community MVPs from Wonderbotz, Devneet Mohanty - Sr. Consultant, Amlan Sahoo - Senior RPA Developer, Tejaskumar Darji - Technical Lead, and MuraliKrishna Kodi Sr. Consultant to explore the role of design thinking and how to approach each automation to ensure the best business outcomes. Step back and take a strategically different approach to further the gains of simply automating yesterday's process.
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Here's what we talked with Devneet, Amlan, Tejaskumar and MuraliKrishna about:
* The role of design thinking in the technical team’s work
* Take a jigsaw puzzle approach to get to better quality, faster
* Using visualization techniques to apply knowledge to the problem at hand
* The evolution over the past 4 years that must be considered in solution design and development
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Apr 28, 2022 • 20min
157. The Power of Design Thinking with WonderBotz - Part 1
Transformation Requires Out of the Box Thinking
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Technical talent goes a long way when deploying technology, but when you are looking for transformation, it requires the ability to think differently about how you might achieve the outcome, based on what you know about the technology. On this podcast, Xina Seaton speaks with four Blue Prism Community MVPs from Wonderbotz, Devneet Mohanty - Sr. Consultant, Amlan Sahoo - Senior RPA Developer, Tejaskumar Darji - Technical Lead, and MuraliKrishna Kodi Sr. Consultant to explore the role of design thinking and how to approach each automation to ensure the best business outcomes. Step back and take a strategically different approach to further the gains of simply automating yesterday's process.
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Here's what we talked with Devneet, Amlan, Tejaskumar and MuraliKrishna about:
* The role of design thinking in the technical team’s work
* Take a jigsaw puzzle approach to get to better quality, faster
* Using visualization techniques to apply knowledge to the problem at hand
* The evolution over the past 4 years that must be considered in solution design and development
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Apr 26, 2022 • 38min
156. Automation is the Catalyst for Change
On this podcast, Brad speaks with Jet Theuerkauf, Chief Customer Strategy and Transformation Officer of Blue Prism, who explains how in his role he is helping Blue Prism build out the IP and technical platform to facilitate customers elevating their automation capability to a much more strategic level and getting exponentially more business value, as a result.
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Here’s what we talked with Jet about:
* What has enabled the significant evolution of RPA
* Why companies need to recognize and utilize digital workers as an alternative labor source
* How automation teams should be positioned organizationally
* How automation programs are handling change management
* The correlation between re-engineering/re-imaging work and enterprise transformation
* How zero-based design is unique and enables transformation
* Some of the innovative/strategic things coming down the road from Blue Prism
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Apr 21, 2022 • 24min
155. The Strategic Role of Automation at Sysco
Automation Is a Strategic Lever at Sysco
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Digital strategy and automation - words we may hear used interchangeably - how do they relate and can you have one with the other? On this podcast, Xina Seaton interviews Kim Meredith with Sysco, to explore the paradigm shift she's helped inspire that's led to automation becoming a key lever the c-suite employs to achieve the business strategy. Having now evolved to the point where automations are seen as digital team members with names, business owners are starting the conversation much earlier on how to structure new job roles around the digital and human workforce. Automation is no longer an afterthought, it's being woven into how work is being defined now.
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Here’s what we talked with Kim about:
* Finding 3-seconds of crazy confidence and seeking out opportunities
* How automation shifted from POC to strategic lever in less than 4 years
* Using automation to change the reality of what people do day to day
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Apr 19, 2022 • 25min
154. Confronting Climate Disclosures With Intelligent Automation
On this podcast, Brad Hairston talks with Chieng Moua, Chief Revenue Officer of GLYNT, who explains how his company can help companies use intelligent automation to address the new regulations and actively manage their climate risk exposure.
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Here’s what we talked with Chieng about:
* Overview of GLYNT, a Blue Prism technology alliance partner
* The new (proposed) SEC climate disclosure reporting requirements and the impact they will have on companies in the US
* What makes the climate disclosures spelled out by these new SEC regulations so complicated to fulfill
* Why climate risk has become a priority for CFOs
* Why it is becoming more important for companies to fully disclose their climate risks and policies
* How climate disclosures are affecting CFOs in other regions of the world
* GLYNT’s solution for climate disclosures – ML Data as a Service – to produce finance-grade carbon emission data
* How GLYNT and Blue Prism work together to make the end-to-end intelligent automation solution for climate disclosures even better
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Apr 15, 2022 • 32min
153. Digital Capabilities Require Rethinking Organizational Design
The Evolution of Automation and Digital Capabilities
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The evolution of intelligent automation and the increase of digital capabilities is requiring organizations to rethink the organizational design. On this podcast, Xina Seaton talks with Amahl Williams, partner at Reveal Group, about the shift the industry has seen over the last 5 years. We explore the criticality of change management as digital colleagues change the job roles and definitions of their human counterparts and how this is influencing the jobs of the future.
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Here’s what we talked with Amahl about:
* The shift in strategic thinking on automation over the past 5 years
* What digital capabilities mean and the impact on organizational design
* How people will interact with digital capability in the company of the future
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Apr 12, 2022 • 29min
152. The Next Generation of BPO and Shared Services
On this podcast, Brad Hairston talks with Sachin Shah and Anup Juneja of Bain & Company, who explain the latest trends in BPO and Shared Services and how this industry is going through significant reinvention.
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Here’s what we talked with Sachin and Anup about:
* The major trends in Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) and Shared Services
* How Bain supports clients in their automation and BPO/Shared Services journey
* Exploring automation as an alternative to traditional outsourcing/offshoring
* The drive toward more agility in centralized services
* How increased automation potential impacts the trend towards reshoring
* The required capabilities for BPO and Shared Services staff in today’s business environment
* What companies are looking for in BPO providers
* The move toward outcome-based contracts for offshore centers
* What’s next for BPO and Shared Services
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Apr 8, 2022 • 18min
151. Insights from a Process Implementation and Optimization Developer
Automation is an Excellent Place to Build a Career
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The key to a successful transformation project is to transform attitudes towards automation and transition from automating as-is to optimizing first. On this podcast, Vipul Tiwari, process implementation and optimization developer discusses his successful career in automation and how he approaches the business. The methodology for successful transformation requires taking the whole company on your transformation journey and getting business buy in to optimize then automate. By going through clear stages that explore key milestones to transformation focused on business outcomes, he builds trust across the business in digital capabilities. And if you are considering a role in automation, he shares some tips for people on how to jump into a role like his, how to get support and build an exciting future.
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Here’s what we talked with Vipul about:
* How to approach transformation with each automated process
* Methodology that works to build trust and engage the business
* Top tips for anyone looking to kickstart a career in automation
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Apr 5, 2022 • 33min
150. Intelligent Automation is Now Transformational
On this podcast, Brad Hairston talks with Lee Coulter, Senior Transformation Advisor at Blue Prism, who explains many organizations are now embracing automation as they've learned how integral it is to enterprise transformation.
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Here’s what we talked with Lee about:
* Key trends in intelligent automation over the past two years
* Why many companies are not scaling their automation capability
* Big changes taking place in the workforce
* How most companies view RPA today
* The impact of digital native disrupters
* How intelligent automation plays a key role in digital transformation
* Digital labor’s relationship to offshoring/BPO
* Automation’s seat at the c-suite table
* A high-level teaser on the strategic work Blue Prism is doing
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Apr 1, 2022 • 36min
149. Intelligent Digital Workers Transform Supply Chain Status Quo
On this podcast, Xina Seaton interviews Kim Meredith with Sysco, Margarita Marengo with The Hershey Company, and Vandana Khanna with Unilever to understand how they are leveraging digital workers across their supply chains and the benefits they are realizing.
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Here’s what we talked with Kim, Margarita and Vandana about:
* How organizations are transforming the way the supply chains functions
* Accelerating transformation by applying successful outcomes in one factory into a global rollout
* The need for trust and therefore audits, rules and ethics surrounding everything that digital workers do
* How peer to peer sharing can help new employees foster trust in their new digital colleagues
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