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The new global economic reality, combined with an unprecedented labour shortage, is encouraging companies to reconsider sustainability strategies. Until recently, sustainability has been synonymous with environmental goals for many businesses and, as a result, treated as an add on to corporate strategy. Sustainability can no longer be considered in isolation. 

I have always loved technology. When I was young, growing up only a few kilometers from where the Universal Robots headquarters is today, I remember finding a bug in a soccer video game I played, and I tried for months and months to make a better game. Even though it turned out to be much harder than I thought, and I ended up with nothing, it got me into coding, which was a learned skill that followed me for many years ahead. 

“Automation is important for three very good reasons”, says Chris Argent, founder and MD of GENCFO.  After the deep insights on automation from the GENCFO live virtual summit, Chris has consolidated the importance of automation into three main reasons. 

This year, it took Denmark less than three months to use our share of the world’s natural resources for 2022, and last year it took the world less than seven months to hit Earth Overshoot Day.

When Helen Morgan started working at character clothing retailer Character.com in June 2020, she embarked on a digital transformation project, building the roadmap to financial automation.

For many retailers, competitive pricing analysis is the key to increase their revenue and stay ahead of competition. Global shifts are forcing these companies to become more data-centric, collect and analyze pricing data, map their position against competitors, and offer optimal prices.

I believe that especially now, in these times of hybrid and remote work, it is more important than ever to incorporate the automation undertaking as part of a larger program within an organization. You need to have direction and motivation as well as resource and budgetary commitment and these are all things a wider program can assist with.

According to travel research, most people plan their vacations 4 – 6 months in advance. When I reflect on my own vacation planning, I must say that I fall into this statistic. I feel it gives you just enough time to make travel arrangements, book excursions and get prepared. We recently booked our next vacation to Italy and now we can simply enjoy the daydreams until departure: Who will we meet? What adventures will we have? What type of wines will we try? And my personal favorite, how much gelato will we eat?

The study of robotics has long been a point of fascination as researchers have sought to discover the potential for automated technology. While the development of autonomous machines certainly isn’t new, mobile robots have found their way into a variety of industries as of late, especially in the manufacturing industry—specifically, quadrupedal robots.  

Everyone is fed up of hearing about the pandemic and the catastrophic impact it has had on the world. But the fact is, although statistics confirm Covid-19 is waning, the rise of new variants including Omicron means the virus is still very much present and working its way through the population, continuing to leave its destruction behind it.