There are five key challenges businesses leaders face when automating and unifying their digital ecosystem.
1. Lack of structured data
At the onset of digital transformation, it is hard for all business processes to be fully automated. Success in automating and unifying the digital ecosystem has a strong reliance on structured data. Lack of structured data creates hindrances and reduces productivity.
2. Resistance
Automation changes the way businesses conduct daily processes and oftentimes, key stakeholders struggle to adapt as they were used to doing tasks in a certain way. Business leaders should provide incentives for adopting new systems and educating employees to understand how the system will help avoid repetitive work, increase accuracy in tasks, and encourage them to focus on high-value activities.
3. Fear of job displacement
The employees will be anxious that automation will risk their position. Leadership must clarify that automation's objective is to build robust processes and create opportunities for better, more productive projects.
4. Automation awareness
Automation is still evolving. As a result, there is an intelligence gap between automation capabilities and prospects and operatives knowledge of automation.
5. Lack of planning
Most companies adopt automation solutions to achieve business goals. However, unless there is cross-functional alignment, a siloed organizational approach leads to unexpected, uncoordinated applications and unnecessary expenses that hinder automation in delivering optimum value across various functions enterprisewide.
Automation is creating enormous opportunities for enterprises
Automation allows businesses to evolve from current challenges and achieve the most efficient operations and effective customer service. The typical benefit of RPA is that robots can perform routine processes using repetitive features, data prediction, and follow simple rules to make decisions. Moreover, robot-based process performance is designed to deliver financial benefits besides consistent and fewer operational errors than human processes.
Business leaders leverage RPA to achieve operational efficiencies more than cost reduction. Some of these benefits are:
1. Decreased cycle times and improved throughput
Automatons are intended to accomplish tasks quicker than human activity
2. Flexibility and scalability
When the foundation instructions allow scheduling of tasks that can be rapidly reassigned, each robot can perform many types of procedures simultaneously
3. Improved precision
Robots are re-calibrated to keep up with the rules and not make mistakes
4. Improved employee assurance
Employees are relocated from repetitive tasks being automated to focus on value creation and rewarding positions