[WATCH] Why your AI and intelligent automation roadmap should be in the cloud.

Adapting, automating, and redesigned business processes using the keys of innovation digital transformation to unlock the future of your enterprise.

Understanding how the business works

Red Hat’s Ronald Meuwsen notes that although global corporate enterprise is squarely focused on automation, only 37% of the most typical business processes have been digitized.  But there’s a silver lining. Ronald references a remark by John Donovan, the CEO of AT&T Communications that when you start to think about optimizing mission critical things, it's not only about the technology, it's really about understanding how the business works.

So if you’ve got processes within the 37%, congratulations. But if you’ve got processes in the 63%, you’re still on track to realize how your business works through discovering what should be automated and how it should be automated.

AI use cases

Ronald packs the session with use cases: vehicle routing. employee ‘rostering,’ maximizing profits, minimizing your ecological footprint. Ultimately he picks up on the top three reasons to move wholesale into the cloud- big shift in application development, the shift from a centralized to a much more distributed approach for BPM approaches automation, and the fact that planning- as we know it- is dead.

5 select key takeaways

• "If change is happening on the outside faster than on the inside, the end is in sight." - Jack Welch, the former CEO of GE.
• Efficiency is a good thing to achieve. But you must be optimized for innovation.
• Failing is okay as long as you fail fast and learn.
• More companies are moving to a hybrid cloud strategy, both private and public cloud offerings.
• Comapnies have a multi-cloud strategy, maybe not putting all of their eggs in one basket. If you choose a cloud vendor today, review that choice a year from now. Things will change.