Podcast: Discovering the power of functional productivity

Key takeaways:·        

• Functional productivity can be defined as fundamentally reimagining and transforming work processes that support corporate and business functions to create better work experiences.
• As the workplace continues to evolve, functional productivity is important in building better, more digitalized experience for employees that allows them to minimize or eliminate administrative work and enables them to make data-driven decisions for improved outcomes.
• Functional productivity allows employees to be more effective in their jobs and gives them the opportunity to grow their skills as they shift focus to new demands and new opportunities.
• At Eaton, we approach functional productivity in three different ways: process optimization, intelligent end-to-end automation and digital tool adoption.
• At the start of a functional productivity journey, it’s important to consider -- What are we trying to achieve? Where are the roadblocks to achieving those goals? Or, where do they want to accelerate? Following this assessment, use techniques like design thinking or analytics to arrive at a solution.
• Maturing beyond basic data availability and leveraging tools like artificial intelligence (AI) helps organizations drive more intelligent automation and provide actionable data-driven insights to employees so they can do their jobs better.
• Eaton leverages AI technology through robotic process automation, or RPA. RPA automates manual processes with bot workers so human employee counterparts can work with them in tandem.
• In the digital workplace, the use of augmented reality (AR) for remote collaboration can help drive productivity by eliminating the need for travel.
• With continued advances in AI and other digital technologies, the proliferation of data, and changing demands on our workforce, we’ll continue to see a dynamic transformation in the way we work. 

Functional productivity is one of four pillars that makes up Eaton's comprehensive digital strategy. Learn more at Eaton.com/DigitalInnovation.