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“ Together ”: Automation in a Fast-Changing World
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emphasise education so that people get on board , because the more people know about automation in the company , the quicker transformation will happen – it ’ s a journey .”
Having that knowledge in mind inevitably helps overcome the often bumpy early adoption stages , what McGarry refers to as the automation three-hit wonder . “ You normally start the first time and fail because you haven ’ t taken it seriously enough . Either you haven ’ t put enough money behind it or enough seasoned professionals who have done it before behind the automation programme . So you do it again , it goes pretty well and you think : this is interesting , let ’ s scale it . Then it goes to the third round where it really ramps up and starts paying for itself . That ’ s the three-hit automation wonder or automation cycle most companies go through as they mature in their automation journey .”
Getting to that stage requires belief in the technology , as Duddridge reiterates . “ I can ’ t think of a single technology project that can deliver a return on investment from day one . Realistically there is an investment period involving
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