Have You Heard of a Corporate Disorganizer?
With new roles like the Corporate Disorganizer predicted for 2025, Neil Kinson, Vice President EMEA at Redwood Software, looks at next-generation jobs and why it’s time to get automated and organize...
View ArticleCities of the Future Embrace Automation
Neil Kinson, Vice President EMEA at Redwood Software discusses architect Jacque Fresco’s vision of a future city; one ‘where material possessions are unnecessary, where buildings are created in...
View ArticleIT Innovation for Growth Starts Now
Most organizations rely on IT more than they realize. Neil Kinson, Vice President EMEA at Redwood Software discusses why CIOs need to invest in innovative, long-term IT projects to drive business...
View ArticleAvoid High-Profile Technical ‘Glitches’
Jeff Rauscher, Director of Solutions Design at Redwood Software, discusses the recent NASDAQ “glitch” and how the collaboration of process automation and human intelligence can avoid these scenarios...
View ArticleBuild an Adaptive Enterprise
Jeff Brown, Director, Solution Architecture at Redwood Software discusses the importance of creating an adaptive enterprise, one that is capable of handling change without disrupting the business, and...
View ArticleRetailers Raise the Bar for Customer Service
Neil Kinson, Vice President EMEA at Redwood Software, explains the extremes retailers are going to and how process automation can help. The retail market has never been more competitive. Consumers...
View ArticleTake Stock of Tesco’s Troubles and Learn
With news that Tesco overstated its financial figures by £250m, Neil Kinson, vice president, EMEA, Redwood Software discuss the importance of automating critical processes to achieve the right figures...
View ArticleAn End to Compromise
Neil Kinson, vice president, EMEA, at Redwood Software discusses how to avoid compromises in the financial close. Last month George Osborne unveiled his sixth budget as Chancellor of the Exchequer in...
View ArticleSkilled ignorance –“la politique de l’autruche”
I had the pleasure of going for lunch with Professor Leslie Willcocks, Professor of Technology, Work and Globalisation at LSE the other day. As an expert in business and IT strategy, outsourcing and...
View ArticleIs Cybershoring™ the new Onshoring?
Money, money, money. Must be funny. In a rich man’s world. Or a rich woman’s world for that matter too. Those were the immortal words penned and sung by Swedish super group ABBA, and they are words...
View ArticleRobotics – too good to be true? Exploring the power of the possible
As Mariah Carey once belted out – there can be miracles, when you believe. Though she may not have had technology in mind, belief and vison are behind the greatest technological developments we have...
View ArticleKey steps to implementing robotics and choosing the appropriate vendor
Unless you’ve joined a mission in Eastern Borneo – in which case you probably wouldn’t be reading this – taken a long sabbatical on the European Space Station, or just had your head buried in the sand...
View ArticleA robot, is a robot, is a robot, right?
Wrong! They are not the same at all. But having said that, let us first be abundantly clear on one thing. Here we are not attempting to draw comparisons between physical mechanical robots. You know the...
View ArticleTHE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM
Everyone is talking about automation, but as we are all individuals, it’s not a major surprise that we all approach it from different angles. It’s a bit like the story of the blind Indians that are...
View ArticleRedwood RPA – The best kept secret
With winds of over 100 MPH, Hurricane Matthew has just battered the Florida coastline. That after leaving a trail of devastation in its wake across Haiti. Many meteorologists would call it the perfect...
View ArticleJust another brick in the wall?
Ever heard the expression the more things change, the more they stay the same? My simple interpretation is that it means that the one thing that we can be sure of, the only thing that is consistent in...
View ArticleMost automation is not about intelligence, but ‘automated stupidity’
Humans is back on our screens for Series 2, prompting many a water cooler debate and philosophical question over the blurring line between humans and technology. When does AI become sentient, and what...
View ArticleWorkplace automation – a board level discussion
Robotics and automation made it to the top of the agenda in several major speeches and events last week. Chancellor Philip Hammond announced a major increase in research and development funding for...
View ArticleThe year ahead – a look at business automation
A shift to talk about process rather than people As the conversation around robotics and automation becomes more sophisticated, we expect to see a shift in focus from talking about how people can be...
View ArticleTimeo Danaos et dona ferentes
You remember the age-old story of The Trojan horse? It’s where the Greeks used a massive wooden horse to trick their way into the City of Troy. Broken down further, the true meaning of the story is...
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