“…our research suggests that as many as 45 percent of the activities individuals are paid to perform can be automated by adapting currently demonstrated technologies. In the United States, these activities represent about $2 trillion in annual wages. Although we often think of automation primarily affecting low-skill, low-wage roles, we discovered that even the highest-paid occupations in the economy, such as financial managers, physicians, and senior executives, including CEOs, have a significant amount of activity that can be automated.”
McKinsey Quarterly article entitled “Four fundamentals of workplace automation.”
Two of the biggest catch-phrases in OSS vendor selections right now are “cost out” and “automation,” which are effectively the former.
Unfortunately the biggest challenge to automating our OSS is complexity. The more complexity in the underlying systems and processes, the more complexity there will be in the automation. It becomes something of a perpetual cycle.
By analogy, the rules of chess are far more challenging than tic-tac-toe. So building chess automations are correspondingly far more complex than tic-tac-toe. Which would be more expensive to buy do you think?
So for organisations that want automations, I’d suggest first looking at how you can drastically simplify your underlying processes and systems before seeking to automate within your OSS.
Standing out in a highly saturated and fragmented OSS market can be really difficult. We’re regularly involved in bake-offs where we see dozens of OSS
One of the things I love about my job is all the vendor demos I get to see. Product demos are one of the four
Have you read the book, “The 4-hour work week” by Tim Ferris? It was one of those relatively rare books that inspired a complete mindset
Over the years, we’ve been involved in many OSS procurement events and have seen a variety of different pricing models proposed by vendors. Being software,
Here at Passionate About OSS, we are exactly that – Passionate About OSS (Operational Support Systems). We’re also passionate about BSS, NMS, or any other names you call the tools that help to operationalise your network.
