Oh hello Monday morning, my old friend. What’ll it be? More coffee or dive straight in?
More coffee, obviously.
Feeling over-caffeinated already. You’ve got this! Just dive straight in.
Where to start the day?
With a due sense of trepidation, let’s catch up with what’s going on in the world.
OK, email it is. What fire needs putting out today?
Hmm, Grizzley has always been a straight shooter.
Do you:
Ignore… there’s bound to be another fire to fight before 5 pm.
Call an all-hands-on-deck flash meeting with your team.
Mary is all fired up about robots-as-a-service and RPA. She sends you a link she says you’ll love.
Pete, on the other hand, knows a guy who knows a guy who’s got a warehouse full of students working for beer money, we just need to find out if they speak English.
You need to decide:
Technology led it is. Where’s that robot link?
You’ve got stuff that needs to get done. You need more people, stat!
Do you:
Think, well that is very interesting, but let's stick with what we know.
Drop everything. Bring forward your 5 pm meeting. Insist you implement RPA today.
You've hit a homerun! Costs are down, efficiency is up, your brightest minds are smiling, the CEO has his reports early, and you’re sitting to his right at the boardroom table!
Afterwards, you think:
Heck no! This is out of the frying pan and into the fire. Where’s Mary with that RPA link?
Pete’s guy’s guy sounds legit. They’re cheap and can start today. Did you mention, they’re cheap?
Pete’s guy’s guy took too long, cost too much and the job is *still* not done. In fact, it’s not done in a way you would have never imagined possible. Google Translate is great, but definitely not good enough to effectively translate business requirements, unfortunately.
Nevermind, at least you managed to fit your faithful pot plant into the one box they gave you to immediately pack your personal belongings.
The world is moving too fast to ignore red flags. Make space for innovation today by automating boring work.
Do you:
Ignore him. Ever since he went on that “Leadership in changing times” seminar he’s been on the warpath.
Grab your coffee and hightail it back to your desk. This is your time to shine, and claim that seat at the boardroom table.
What’s your first step?
Research? Who needs research? You’ve got this.
Hmmm, let’s see what cleverness is out there already that can help. No time to reinvent the wheel, you need to act, now.
What do you think?
No, this is not for us. Not this year anyway.
You’ve hit the jackpot and set out to hire Rob today.
The winning ideas, from your brainstorm of one, are:
Turn off all the heating and make your staff work longer hours. They’ll work harder to stay warm, so it’ll be a double win!
Fire your top talent. They’re expensive, and don’t do their admin on time. Hire three juniors to replace each one, and clear that data processing backlog.
You hear via the CRE grapevine that your smartest ex-employee joined your main competitor. And told them all about RPA and how it can automate boring jobs, making them more productive and cost-efficient. Ah, that might also explain why your biggest client just defected to your competition as well.
Free up your top talent to be strategic and innovative by automating boring work.
Do you:
Tell John that the boss said we need to do more with less.
Grumble a bit more to yourself but decide to let it go. You’ve got work to do.
Your company loses a massive pitch because you couldn’t show your potential new client that you could provide up-to-date reports for real-time decision-making.
You should have automated predictable and repetitive processes so that your data is always up to date.
You should have tackled the challenge head on and automated your company’s boring work to keep your people productive.
