Automation

Robo-Advice: Time to Re-Boot Delivery?

Posted: 06/26/2018 - 00:24

Author: Joe Woodbury

Robo-advice, also known as ‘automated advice’ refers to the provision of financial advice with as little human interaction as possible. A strand of artificial intelligence, robo-advice offers guidance on the basis of mathematical rules and algorithms rather than human intelligence. Whilst algorithmic trading may have been around for many years, the concept of a ‘robo-adviser’ has only recently become a reality.

Robot Workers and Human Problems: Hiring (and firing) your digital workforce

Posted: 06/07/2018 - 04:38

Author: Kit Cox

Picture the scene: you’re in the middle of hiring for a role in your HR department. At the interview stage, some bright young candidate takes a seat. You ask the classic question, “So why should I hire you?”

The Motivation Factor with Dennis Timpanaro

Posted: 05/23/2018 - 23:10

Author: Dennis Timpanaro

In this episode of the Sourcing Industry Landscape, Dawn Tiura interviews Dennis Timpanaro. Dennis Timpanaro is the Founder and CEO of GOtivation, a fitness technology startup with a messaging platform that utilizes artificial intelligence to help personal trainers and fitness coaches motivate clients. Timpanaro is a world-ranked athlete and was the youngest global director in McDonald's history.

A Spoonful of Digital Helps the Governance Go Down

Posted: 04/12/2018 - 10:33

Author: Betty Cardiel

Businesses today are focused on implementing digital technologies to aid in governance

Let’s face it – many people believe governance is boring. It’s all about compliance, following arcane rules and paying attention to details. There is nothing transformational, customer-experiential or disruptive about it.

Four Phrases to Eliminate Today to Move Procurement Forward

Posted: 03/13/2018 - 01:47

Author: Tim Cronin

Procurement and supply chain management is a process about people.

The SAVO Methodology

Posted: 12/06/2017 - 09:05

Author: Ian Barkin

The SAVO methodology speaks to our origin story as process-focused organization. We set out to emphasize the importance of process as the foundation for any stable and meaningful transformation. What SAVO represents are the following steps to digital transformation:

Simplify

Automate

Virtualize

Orchestrate

Orchestration vs. Integration: Finding the Best Way to Manage Automation

Posted: 11/23/2017 - 01:48

Author: Kit Cox

Using a diverse set of intelligent automation tools together to achieve your business aims isn’t always easy. More often than not, it involves figuring out how to integrate these different tools in what can become a very complex IT project.

Intelligent Automation Inspires New Plans For Onshoring

Posted: 11/04/2017 - 03:01

Author: Chris Niccolls

Offshoring and outsourcing don’t exist in a vacuum. These are processes that take advantage of and are influenced by technology, politics and the larger economy. Look at the last big round of offshoring at the start of the century. It didn’t just “happen” without any reason. Very specific changes facilitated this age of outsourcing.

Automation: An Inevitable Reality for Procurement

Posted: 10/19/2017 - 23:45

Author: Budhaditya Banerjee

The entire source-to-pay spectrum in procurement stares at the eventuality named automation. With automation having the potential to lower procurement costs, generate greater savings and render greater value, its aggressive foray into the source-to-pay spectrum remains only a matter of time.

Back to the Future...of Outsourcing!

Posted: 09/30/2017 - 03:13

Author: Chris Niccolls

To understand the future, it often helps to examine the past. The past may not have all our answers, but we often find useful models that can be repurposed in new ways. Turn back the clock one hundred years, and we will find just such a model for future outsourcing…the modern hospital.

The three stages to back office brilliance: Part three

Posted: 09/08/2017 - 22:30

Author: Kit Cox

In the final installment of our series on achieving automation excellence,

The three stages to back office brilliance: Part two

Posted: 08/18/2017 - 22:30

Author: Kit Cox

‘Overcoming deployment obstacles’

The three stages to back office brilliance: Part one

Posted: 07/20/2017 - 04:26

Author: Kit Cox

Understanding the benefit of RSO

In the first part of a three part series, ‘The three stages to back office brilliance’, Enate CEO, Kit Cox, discusses how businesses can assess and quantify the potential benefits of automation through robotic service orchestration.

Reverse Auction: Friend or Foe?

Posted: 06/30/2017 - 06:30

Author: Phil Przeklas

Procurement organizations have been using reverse auctions in sourcing events for decades as a means to reduce spend, introduce new vendors into the supply base and remain competitive in the market. While reverse auctions have flourished since the mid 1990’s, they have also been heavily scrutinized. Trends such as these have forced suppliers to adapt to competitive business practices or become inconsequential. As procurement tools become more streamlined, practices like reverse auctions are more commonplace in sourcing events; however, they continue to harbor negative connotations.

The 2017 CPO agenda: keeping pace with and enabling digital transformation

Posted: 05/13/2017 - 05:16

Author: Patrick Connaughton

According to The Hackett Group’s 2017 Key Issues Study, 84% of procurement organisations believe that digital transformation will fundamentally change the way their services are delivered over the next three to five years. Yet only 25% say that procurement has the right resources and competencies today to execute that transformation. Nevertheless, the enterprise’s “march to digital” continues unabated, with double the number of respondents reporting transformation initiatives are under way this year.

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