RESOURCING WITH PEOPLE AND ROBOTS 14:00 Head of Innovation Based in London Look after US and UK
Process and Business DigitiSation Resources And Financials Projects and PORTFOLIOs
Polarisoft Consulting Software as a service MANAGED SERVICES 10 Years Software Company Head Quartered in the UK Global Customer Base Consulting Software as a service MANAGED SERVICES
PPMANywhere Scalable from SME to Enterprise Integrates the disciplines of portfolio, projectand resource management Great industry feedback SaaS Based Solution Desktop and Mobile Process Driven Interactions Standard Templates and Processes Multiple Methods Automated Reporting and Dashboards
How will automation impact resource management?
To understand the future, lets start with the past
Investors Investors Investors Jaguar's Browns Lane Coventry Industrial Revolution Workers lived near their work Factories created a new fluid and moveable workforce The concept of peak demand The necessity for professional resource management was born Coventry Auto Factory 37 people People are expensive, move overseas Jaguar's Browns Lane Coventry
Tesla No people in this photo
No factory example
13 People Servicing 30 Million Automation is at the core of new business 13 People Servicing 30 Million On April 9, 2012, Kevin Systrom and Mike Kriegersold sold their 13-person startup, Instagram, to Facebook.
Robot Cars 21,000 black cabs in London
Scary A scary future
Spread Sheet Some of you may know the History of Spreadsheets 5 minute lesson Before 1980 On paper – if you needed a projection Would not use an expensive accountant - Bookkeepers and Accounting Clerks Take days – If you changed a number you had to erase the sums and re-add if you wanted something bigger it was more days 1978 – Dan Bricklin had an idea VisiCalc for the newly invented Apple 2e It could change a number without having to erase and automatically re adjust sums Since 1980 – the US has lost 400,000 book keeping and clerk jobs
Why Do we Care?
MORE FASTER The what-if was born In a very sort time you could get projections The new technology caught on 600,000 jobs created 600,000 higher skilled jobs The result is automation created a shift and increased complexity
SUPPLY AND DEMAND Brining together the resource management today. Here is our resource balancer product For the most part we have solved supply and demand We can easily and quickly get whole organisations to collaborate on resource management, define the what-ifs and allocate individuals Cool huh? We can even do this with non-human resources For instance if you need a specific software environment at a specific time What’s the analysis we are doing to take that model and prepare for the future?
I can’t sleep, tell me what to do Industrial Revolution - We resource by day - Around 8 hours - 5 days a week All ready common in some industries, will become more common. Short illustration – Could everyone please stand up? Terrific, thank you very much. Robots, software, automation – are outstanding with easily repeatable simple instructions. People – good assumptive decision making People - are adaptable Resourcing Shift
Team Human Automation Physical Managed Services In the future there will be more resourcing with complex team models Complex models will include a lot of non-human resource Optimise at a Greater detail Ask a human for too much information but in an automated world – information is much easier to obtain. Physical Managed Services
Which Person should be a person? Resource Manager as investing Which Person should be a person? Better reconnition of resource management as investing Don’t understand projects, bau, application of resources is investment We have abstracted project management to a level where RMs and PMs don’t realise they are making investment decisions. When someone asks in our business to hire a new person, we ask “can we automate 40 hours else where in the business”? Being wrong will cost more
THE FUTURE IS STRATEGIC The role of resource management will have greater focus THE FUTURE IS STRATEGIC
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