The six IT trends that will drive your organisation this year. As your organisation faces up to the impact of the year that was 2020 and now looks ahead, I believe these are the six IT themes, or strategies, that will drive us to a successful 2021 and beyond. I have noted as I have…
Is it time for RPA to RIP? Trends and fashion are a fickle beast, yesterday’s news is today’s fish and chip wrapper. Yesterday, everyone wanted to jump on the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) bandwagon. RPA was attracting huge market valuations and every CIO or CTO was engaging with their ‘favourite SI’ (is that an oxymoron?)…
How to make employees happy – replace their jobs with a robot! … What? Yes, replace all their boring repetitive jobs with a robot. A recent survey showed that only 1% of employees were unhappy after their companies had deployed Robotic Process Automation. In fact, 93% of firms reported an uplift in employee satisfaction. This…
Brexit Bots Adding in virtual staff by using software robots has been proven to improve customer and staff satisfaction, but increasingly organisations are using them to help keep compliant. One area that is very fluid at the moment is all the changes that may occur due to Brexit. For example, why not get a…
7 Ways to succeed in 2019 Over the last 20 years I have read time and again the analysts’ reports of which technology is going to be the big new thing for the year ahead. Whilst many of these trends have come and gone or crossed their chasm (or fallen to their peril), there are…
The Grimm fairy tale of the shoemaker and the robotic elves Unless you have been living in a hole in the ground, you simply can’t have avoided all the hype surrounding the onward march of Robots gunning for your jobs. Just like robots are now prevalent in manufacturing, a new breed of software robot can…
The Accounts Payable Association Annual Conference 2018 – The Rise of the Robots Having spent nearly 30 years in the Accounts Payable industry, it was great to attend the second annual conference to meet all the AP Ninjas (their term!) and see just what is going on. It was fascinating to see a room of over…
Which Robotic Automation Platform is best? Perhaps the number one question I get asked is; “which platform should we choose for our automation needs?” Now, those of you that know me, will no doubt expect me to immediately name a vendor or technology, but that isn’t what I feel is the right answer to this…
Enterprise software – Buy or Build? Traditional IT departments are having a very tough time at the moment, and in many companies, the level of satisfaction in IT is at an all time low. One of the problems is that for years, business process owners have had to go through the rigmarole of working with…
Flip a coin to choose which software to buy Study after study shows us that the chances of getting value from your document management system is 50/50. That’s right 50% of people get it right, and 50% choose the wrong solution. Now, if you have just spent a King’s ransom deploying, coding and rolling out…
Has your No.1 priority changed? Part One Have your business priorities changed in 2018? In a recent survey of IT executives conducted by a very well known global consulting firm, the top priority cited by nearly a quarter of over 2,000 leading executives is growth. This was followed shortly by business transformation or digital transformation.…
Imagine your whole accounts team being replaced by robots! Does this fill you full of dread or delight? Ironically, when you chat about this in a company, it is often the accounts team themselves that say that this would be great news, whilst other departments feign mock horror. Most people then joke that you couldn’t…
The spreadsheet has run accounting departments for 50 years and seen off ERPs, accounting systems and paper. The real beauty of the spreadsheet is that it is authored, updated, changed and published by us. We don’t need IT or an external consultant we just open up a fresh page and have 1,048,576 rows and 16,384…
Are your Accounting Processes out of date? Over the years I have worked with many accounting professionals with ICAEW, ACCA and CIMA qualifications, and I have discovered the following trends with regards to their accounting processes. Majority of firms are here Robotic Process Automation and Artificial intelligence is sweeping through accounts departments…
An 8 Point Guide to deciding which processes to give to your robot So many organisations are looking at, or have started to implement Robotic Process Automation, but not all robots are created equal, and not all processes are ideal to be replaced. So how do you know which tools to use, and what processes…
Understanding the risks – the four key areas Many of our Twofold customers ask us how we can help them meet their GDPR requirements. The good news is that the same set of solutions that you use to make your processes more efficient can also be used to help you meet the regulations. First…
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Issac Asimov formulated the 3 laws which governed robots and the very first said that a Robot must not harm a human. But he didn’t say anything about it taking our jobs!