L1.2 Assessment – AI as an Enabler (1) Intelligent “Hyperautomation”

Question 1: What do analysts and experts refer to by the term “hyperautomation”?

The effective combination of modern AI technologies to achieve automation on an unprecedented scale
A modern transportation system making use of vacuum tubes to decrease physical friction and thereby increasing the travelling speed
A modern methodology to accelerate business process automation projects to be delivered faster

Question 2: What are the potential benefits of hyperautomation?

Lower process costs
Lower error rates
Better quality
Lower operational risks
Shorter throughput times

Question 3: In your view, what is the potential for cost reduction from AI?

Less than 15%
15-30%
31-50%
Over 50%
Not relevant

Question 4: What do simple lean AI solutions, such as Robotic Process Automation (RPA) require?

Complex interfaces
Username and password
Complex programming
Large servers

Question 5: Which of the following descriptions of modern RPA technologies are correct?

RPA technologies require huge up-front investments to consolidate the existing IT architecture by large-scale consolidation
RPA technologies require the build-up of complex IT infrastructures, large server farms etc. as they cannot be operated in a lean way
RPA technologies are so lean that they can even be operated on a simple notebook
RPA bots do not need complex technical interfaces to existing IT systems
RPA bots need a username and password to work with IT systems, just like a human operator
RPA technologies are particularly well suited for automation of simple, repetitive tasks

Question 6: Which solutions may be combined to enable hyperautomation?

Robotics solutions
Cognitive AI solutions
Internet of things (IoT)
All of the above

Question 7: Which disadvantages of manual labour can be addressed by automation?

Manual labour is quite expensive and therefore increases process costs
Manual labour within the process workflow is often relatively slow
Humans can make errors which leads to more operational risks
Humans have natural performance fluctuations which leads to higher volatility of process quality and output

Question 8: What is the difference between “partial automation” vs. “end-to-end process automation” of business processes?

Sort elements

Advanced automation with some manual activities and interfaces
Unprecedented new scale of consistent automation of a process from end-to-end

Partial automation of business processes
End-to-end process automation

Question 9: Which of the following sentences regarding the Internet of Things (IoT) are correct?

IoT facilitates automation in the physical space
IoT makes use of the fact that more and more physical objects are being equipped with sensors and chips
IoT strives to connect all physical objects of our digitizing world in order to enable fully automated value chains in areas like factories, warehousing or logistics
IoT allows us to increase the bandwidth of the internet
IoT is just another term for the 5G mobility standard

Question 10: What is a modern and efficient way to identify and prioritize those tasks and processes that have the greatest potential for automation?

Using technologies like ‘process modelling’ and ‘process mining’
Analysing the tasks and processes manually
Choosing a task to be automated at random
Selecting only the most complex tasks

Question 11: How can we use process modelling and process mining to facilitate hyperautomation?

To develop RPA bots faster as bot development can be automated
To replace technologies like RPA by more integrated IT core platforms
To make process flows of the company fully transparent
To identify specific tasks and processes with high automation potential
To efficiently fill the automation pipeline with new ideas for automation use cases

Question 12: Which of the following statements are true when considering the future shaped by hyperautomation?

Inevitable mass unemployment, bots will become the main workforce for sure.
Employees and organizations will have to learn how to work with more and more bots.
Organizations will become leaner and fitter as well as make the workplace more exciting for human employees.
Organizations will use the freed-up staff resources towards more value-adding activities.
Bots will certainly have no impact at all on future unemployment.