On 23rd September Kalibr Technopark in cooperation with the MCCI Committee on Industrial and Innovation Policy held a webinar "Automation of Business Processes: Problems and Solutions".

The event was opened by Mikhail Kogan, Chairman of the Committee: “As information technologies develop, entrepreneurs are faced with the need to quickly adapt to modern trends. Lately there has been a lot of talk about the need to structure and automate business processes”.

Igor Alyoshin, a business consultant, an expert practitioner in optimizing business processes and projects, spoke about what business processes are, how and when to automate them. He advised managers, before deciding on the need for automation, to assess the maturity of processes on a certain scale, and, based on the results, to carry out automation.

Igor Lozovitskiy, business consultant in the field of management consulting, CEO of Lozovitskiy.ru spoke about software for effective design and regulation of business processes, as well as for their subsequent automation using the example of Business Studio.

Olga Molskaya, Ozon project manager, shared the potential difficulties in the practical implementation of automation in the company. “Before talking about automation, you need to understand what specific processes in the company need to be automated”.

Another, as important as an aspect of the BP automation issue is the training of employees and their adaptation to innovations. Artem Ustyuzhanin, director of the Sistemno company, spoke about this. Artem added that it is important to prepare employees for automation even before its implementation, so that each of them is ready for changes.

At the end of the event, the Chairman of the Committee thanked all speakers and listeners for the informative conversation, and also noted that, unfortunately, not all company leaders understand the need to automate business processes and the difficulties they have to face in order to achieve the most effective result.

More details on the MCCI website: https://mostpp.ru/news/podderzhka-predprinimatelstva/avtomatizirovat-nuzhno-poryadok-a-ne-khaos/