Intelligent CIO Africa Issue 41 | Page 36

///////////////////////////////////////////////// IMPLEMENTING SMART WORKF The way we work has changed – possibly forever important that CIOs reassess their businesses roa digital at the heart. Mark Ackerman, Senior Direct East and Africa, ServiceNow, tells Intelligent CIO’s why it’s crucial that businesses implement smart order to ensure they are future-proof. WWhat workflow challenges has the shift to remote working created? Legacy technology and the ways of work have never been so challenged as they are right now. We’ve heard this pandemic being referred to as the world’s greatest ‘proof of concept’. Collaboration can present some of the biggest challenges – e-mail, Slack, Teams, Zoom and WebEx are thrust into the mix and, while these are helping, it also means that data is being distributed further. I know I’m often caught looking for an interaction with a customer or a colleague and having to look into multiple sources. Making work flow between the various systems of record should be the biggest priority – while also the biggest challenge – and this starts by ensuring there is a single system of interaction. This ‘Platform of Platforms’ can consolidate all the collaboration and disparate processes and create simplified digital workflows. Legacy technology is not going to help and therefore a rapid adop solutions is really the o Great experiences for customers should be t have this objective in focusing on IT workflo customer workflows. How are organisat adapting to this n Remote work now has heart of every interact For some, this whole s massive. We may find managers have becom structure of physical o the leap is going to be We know that some p have to be in the room order to get things do the ‘soft skills’ needed effectively over video But as companies are that projects and ope www.intelligentcio.com