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ZDNET's key takeaways
AI agents help identify and remove waste in business.
All waste is costly, but not all costs are wasteful.
CEOs pursue cost efficiency with AI to protect performance.
In an AI-powered economy, business leaders are focused on enhancing the productivity and efficiency of their workforce and operations. To accelerate value creation, while focusing on cost reductions and efficiencies, companies are identifying and removing silos -- structural, data, and organizational -- so they can successfully deploy hyper automation and emerging technologies like autonomous AI agents and robots, serving as an extension of their digital labor.
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There is a warning regarding the removal of silos that is worth mentioning. When you remove silos without an alternative way to manage your resources, you risk creating a spill instead of a flow. A spill is a waste of resources that can even become a pollutant or a hazard. A boundless organization, by contrast, creates and then directs flows of resources to wherever it most needs them.
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