Putting AI to Work: What does It Mean?
Work automation means using AI technologies to take over low-value, repetitive, and mundane tasks. Doing so frees employees to focus on more valuable tasks matching their abilities and talents. It’s about streamlining workflows by augmenting human labour with advanced digital capabilities.
“50% of all tasks performed by employees can and should be automated.”
Ultimately, work automation cuts operational costs, speeds up business processes, boosts productivity, improves customer and employee experiences, increases business agility, and enhances the bottom line.
“Work automation saves 50% of your time and results in between 70% and 80% savings in costs.”
Experts at SIA Innovations share a wealth of knowledge on what it takes to implement work automation and realize the numerous benefits of working with AI.
The 5 stages of Work Automation
Work automation is a methodical process. This eBook guides you through the five key stages of successful work automation.
Stage #1: Discovering Opportunities for Automation — Figure out the processes, tasks, workflows, or activities you need to automate and the outcomes to expect.
Stage #2: Automating Decisions — Develop an accurate, reliable, and flexible decisioning mechanism based on dynamic business rules and data.
Stage #3: Implementing Bots — Build and deploy efficient bots to do all the heavy lifting when automating various tasks.
Stage #4: Upgrading to Event-Driven Workflows — Configure your system to listen for event commands and respond appropriately to event triggers.
Stage #5: Getting AI to Do the Work — Incorporate AI (human-like decisioning, reasoning, judgement, and learning) into your workflows.