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Hear Directly from a Digital Finance Transformation Leader . In this episode of Transform Now, Xina Seaton talks with Vandana Khanna, digital finance transformation director from Unilever about her career and how she got to where she is today. She shares how passion for doing routine things differently has been a huge motivator to merge her MBA education with her technical acumen to become a leader in tech. If you are interested in how to grow a #career in a constantly changing and evolving environment such as Intelligent Automation and #transform your career, then this is the podcast for you. . Here’s what we talked with Vandana about: * Where she started and how she grew her career to where she is today * Critical skillset you need today to be a business leader in a STEM career * What we all can do to encourage more girls to take on STEM careers * What's exciting about a career in IA and why you should consider one . To ensure that you never miss an episode of Transform NOW, be sure to subscribe!

On this podcast, Brad Hairston talks with Rob Kennedy, Director of Automation and Artificial Intelligence at Capgemini, who explains how his consultancy plans to change this by helping companies take their automation capability to the next level through the addition of intelligent document processing. . Here’s what we talked with Rob about: * The importance of intelligent automation and AI to Capgemini * Why helping companies add or enhance their IDP capability is a priority for Capgemini * How IDP elevates the automation value across the organization * Why Capgemini is leveraging Decipher, Blue Prism’s native capability for IDP * How Decipher works * Great use cases for IDP that are common across organizations * Capgemini’s approach to helping companies adopt IDP * An IDP customer success story . To ensure that you never miss an episode of Transform NOW, be sure to subscribe!

Intelligent Automation is Working for Mass General Brigham . Two years ago, as Benjamin Berkowitz (then Director of Revenue Cycle Operations at Mass General Brigham) was doing the budget for Mass General's 700-strong revenue cycle team, he realized they had a lot of talented and knowledgeable people doing really menial tasks. He thought: "there must be a better way to do the work that we do". Now, two years later, Mass General Brigham uses intelligent automation to release thousands of hours of staff time to focus on more valuable and rewarding tasks. This has resulted in $10,000,000 worth of cost savings. Listen to the full session now to understand how they've been able to achieve such impressive results, and what the future holds for automation at Mass General Brigham. . Here’s what we talked with Benjamin about: * Enterprise-wide processes, such as payroll and supply chain leveraging digital workers across ten different functional areas * Getting employees to see their digital counterparts as coworkers rather than a threat, cultural adoption is key * How they have seen savings increase from a few hundred thousand dollars to over $10 million with 35 processes now in place . To ensure that you never miss an episode of Transform NOW, be sure to subscribe!

In this episode, Michael Marchuk talks with Dr. Anthony Wheeler, Dean of the School of Business Administration at Widener University, about the impact of technologies like automation, artificial intelligence, and machine learning on businesses. Dr. Wheeler discusses the challenges that many organizations face when implementing advanced technologies while offering new perspectives on the opportunities that companies can embrace to enhance the value of their employees. . Here’s what we talked with Anthony about: * How global implementations of automaton, AI, and machine learning may be impacted by geography and culture * Why some industries may be more apt to adopt automation than others * How these new technologies affect the relationships between the organization and its employees and customers . To ensure that you never miss an episode of Transform NOW, be sure to subscribe!

Using Automation to Build a Resilient Business . The "Great Resignation" has affected businesses in all industries, with attrition rates we haven't seen for decades. In this episode, Michael Marchuk speaks with Jon Walden, CTO for Blue Prism, about how automation can reduce the risk for organizations who are experiencing the impact of labor shortages and build a more resilient business model using human and digital labor. . Here’s what we talked with Jon about: * How the Great Resignation is impacting both employees and customers * Why the Great Resignation may affect generational groups differently * How organizations can build a more resilient business model using a combination of human labor and automation . To ensure that you never miss an episode of Transform NOW, be sure to subscribe!

On this podcast, Brad Hairston talks with Matt Williams, Healthcare Industry Lead at ABBYY, and Bruce Mazza, GM Process Intelligence at Blue Prism, who explain how process intelligence is a key inflection point in the intelligent automation space. . Here’s what we talked with Matt and Bruce about: * The definition of process intelligence * Why ABBYY was selected as the technology partner to provide this capability * The difference between process mining and task mining * How process intelligence improves the process automation development cycle * Where machine learning and predictive analytics come into play in process intelligence * Examples ofindustry-specific use cases that benefit from process intelligence * Customer success stories demonstrating the power of process intelligence combined with intelligent automation * How Blue Prism is helping existing and new customers get familiar with process intelligence * What the typical ramp-up looks like with process and task mining * How Process Intelligence is a major inflection point for Blue Prism intelligent automation * What is unique about the Blue Prism and ABBYY Timeline solution . To ensure that you never miss an episode of Transform NOW, be sure to subscribe!

Intelligent Automation Helps Pfizer Speed Time to Market . Making Work Faster, Easier, and Driving Better Patient Outcomes with Automation. Back in 2017, Vivek Khurana, Head of Automation Services at Pfizer, set out on the mission to make breakthrough changes to patient outcomes by making work faster and easier for those working behind the scenes. This mission included using a host of AI and Automation technologies to streamline processes, making them more efficient and enabling staff to focus on more rewarding tasks. Fast forward four years and Pfizer has completely reimagined how work is done and the relationship between human and digital worker teams, while saving more than 30,000 hours annually. . Here’s what we talked with Vivek about: * The success story that is intelligent automation at Pfizer * How digital workers help get medicines to market faster * How Pfizer is delivering better patient outcomes with intelligent automation . To ensure that you never miss an episode of Transform NOW, be sure to subscribe!

On this podcast, Brad Hairston talks with Mike Kiser, Senior Identity Strategist at SailPoint Technologies, who explains why it's critically important for companies in the digital economy to think a step ahead with identity management, not just catch up to where they should have been all along. . Here’s what we talked with Mike about: * How identity is defined * The meaning of "identity is the new blue" * Where most companies are falling short in identity access management and cybersecurity * How SailPoint helps companies address it blind spots related to identity * How the integration of SailPoint and Blue Prism gives enterprises visibility into governing digital workers like their human counterparts * How organizations benefit the most by using SailPoint and Blue Prism together * Customer success stories involving SailPoint and Blue Prism * What the future holds for Identity Access Management . To ensure that you never miss an episode of Transform NOW, be sure to subscribe!

On this podcast, Brad Hairston talks with Clayton Gammill, Managing Director at KPMG, who explains how companies can effectively intertwine digital and cultural transformation in a way that improves the success of these large-scale change initiatives. . Here’s what we talked with Clayton about: * The biggest factors in the current economy driving companies toward transformation * How the current wave of transformation is creating more anxiety for the average worker * How people typically view transformation initiatives * The relationship between digital transformation and cultural transformation * How leaders can address the human aspect more effectively during transformation initiatives * Moving past the fear of digital workforce replacing the human workforce * How reinventing oneself is the new normal * How understaffing will accelerate the adoption of digital labor * What the enterprise of the future will look like * How organizations should begin their digital transformation journey . To ensure that you never miss an episode of Transform NOW, be sure to subscribe!

Taking a Digital-First Strategy for RPA . On this episode, goto.energy shares how to follow a digital-first strategy for successfully implementing RPA and intelligent automation in utilities. Evan Salway, CFO of goto.energy, joins Jason Burton from Blue Prism to talk about how following a digital-first strategy allowed goto.energy to take a new approach within the utilities sector with a focus on being a ‘greentech’ company rather than just a green energy company.  . Here’s what we talked with Evan about:  * How goto.energy has deployed digital workers across their organization * Delivering a better customer experience with a digital-first strategy * Attracting investors and raising profit margins with intelligent automation . To ensure that you never miss an episode of Transform NOW, be sure to subscribe!