Question

How should we deal with automation in modern systems? How do you use automation in your life, and in what ways do you think it makes your digital life more or less secure? Back up your opinion with at least one cite.

Answer 1

1. Eliminate the manipulation of paper documents.
   • Go digital. You can store information on your system and at the same time save money. No more printing and storing paper documents.
   • Optimize time spent looking for information.
2. Utilize employee time better.
   • One of automation’s best feature is that it gives you the opportunity to use talent and do what humans do best: create ingenious business plans to eliminate costs, make important decisions, etc. Creative and innovative methods that an automated system can’t do.
   • Concentrate on the most important tasks.
3. Define business processes.
   • You need to identify what is implicated in your business process before you can configure the automation. This identifying process makes everything visible and gives you a clear idea of what is happening or should be happening in your business!
4. Make better projections
   • A Business Process Automation (BPA) gives you all the tools needed to monitor data, at all times. It gives you much more precise data and projections about your business’ future needs and income.
5. Identify unused resources.
   • More than estimating your future sales or needs, a good BPA will help you detect resources that are no longer used or are underused (for example, an unused mobile phone left by a departing employee). Automation of processes gives you the opportunity to identify and re-affect unused resources.
6. Allow new business opportunities.
   • Automation allows the ability to configure and support assets in fields you couldn’t even have thought about while using only human resources.
7. Save money, even while sleeping.
   • As a human, sleeping is a basic need; you will not be able to function if you don’t get enough sleep. At a certain point, you’ll need to take a break from physically managing your operations and give yourself a well needed rest. Thankfully, your automated systems don’t need to rest. You can configure them to work all day and all night, over and over.
8. Easily manage decentralized teams in different time zones.
   • Sadly, you can only be in one place at a time. You don’t have access to places on the other side of the world. Thanks to automated systems, it’s not always like that. You can manage the tasks of your decentralized teams across multiple time zones.