Efficiency, productivity and modern day work satisfaction driving automation

Stephen Gill, Academic Head, School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, heriot watt university dubai.
Stephen Gill, Academic Head, School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University Dubai.
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4 years ago

Modern employees are increasingly looking for meaning in their jobs – which cannot be found in routine, repetitive tasks. The demand for process automation has increased as an employee-facing tool not just as a customer-facing tool. For the digitally savvy worker, business process automation is a means of achieving efficiency, productivity and job satisfaction.

Moreover, businesses that understand the value of digital transformation recognise that automation allows them to get more done in less time, using less resources, and with less chances of manual error. As a result, the business realises significant time and cost savings, which ultimately improves customer satisfaction and the company’s bottom line.

Businesses that understand digital transformation recognise that automation allows them to get more done in less time.

The integration of various systems and tools can be tricky at times. Automation that occurs across multiple systems is incredibly useful but is also an incredibly complex process. Process standardisation is one of the most challenging aspects of implementing automation.

Integration of various systems and tools can be tricky at times.

In other words, the more complex the process, the more challenging and costly it is to implement automation. Hence, this requires working with an experienced IT consultancy that can help find the right solutions that talk to each other and that will allow you to capitalise on the many advantages of business process automation.

Automation that occurs across multiple systems is incredibly useful but is also incredibly complex .

Business process automation use cases include employee onboarding eliminating the need for endless paperwork; invoice processing solving delayed PO approvals; and provisioning new users saving highly skilled IT talent the time spent on manual, repetitive tasks. Besides HR, Finance, and IT, many other functional departments such as sales and marketing can also benefit from business process automation.

Modern employees are looking for meaning in their jobs, which cannot be found in routine, repetitive tasks.

One such example is sales automation that helps users manage all aspects of the sales cycle through a streamlined sales process so that business leads can be effectively converted into new customers by automating the important yet repetitive, time consuming tasks.


For the digitally savvy worker, business process automation is a means of achieving efficiency, productivity and increasingly important, job satisfaction.

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