Is automation the answer to IT’s question on improving service levels and reducing costs?
In a recent post, I agree why should you avoid calling it automation. If you promise automation, then you’re setting a high bar on expected results, and it becomes an easy target for employees fearful of losing their jobs.
But what about hyperautomation?
How I define hyperautomation
From a recent blog post:
Hyperautomation aims to unify people’s skills with system capabilities for automating repetitive tasks, discovering information from complex data, orchestrating large-scale operational procedures, and implementing rule-based decisions. The goal of hyperautomation and platforms that support it is to make people more successful at their jobs by leveraging, augmenting, and extending their expertise.” Isaac Sacolick in 3 Ways Hyperautomation Enables Breakthrough IT Operations
Hyperautomation has several implications:
It must be tied to business-impacting KPIs
There’s no promise of full automation
Machine learning is used to help people to make smarter, faster decisions
Low-code tools help define the hyperautomation and connect to workflows
Agile processes help teams plan, deliver, and improve hyperautomation
Low-code is central to hyperautomation:
RPAs are useful tools when you want to automate yesterday’s business process. But that’s not digital transformation - that’s just driving efficiencies and sometimes improving operational quality.
Digital transformation is about reinventing toward future business models and intelligent operations. It requires ongoing reinvention and bringing together’s people’s strengths in collaboration, decision-making, and innovation with technology and data capabilities.
Low-code platforms deliver this connection by enabling rapid development and easy support of the connections in the form of applications, integrations, visualizations, and task automations.
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