Interview | JP Morgenthal and Robotic Process Automation
RPA is happening fast, and JP tells us why
I recently chatted with JP Morgenthal, the Gigaom analyst and author of Robotic Process Automation in Digital Transformation: Rise of the Citizen Developer. JP’s been delivering IT services to business leaders for the past 30 years and is a recognized thought-leader in applying emerging technology for business growth and innovation. JP and I worked together at a small start-up years ago, and our interests seem to lead to us intersecting every once and a while, in this case, looking at automation in business from different perspectives.
Interview
Stowe Boyd: It’s really great to talk to you again. It’s been a while. I don’t even remember what year it was we last spoke but it’s been so far in the past that I can’t dredge it up. So we’ll just have to accept the fact that we’re lucky to have re-encountered each other, again.
JP Morgenthal: Yeah, we keep crossing paths though.
SB: Well it’s maybe the small world effect. But JP, the thing I want to talk to you about today specifically is that you and I are sort of converging from different angles dealing with the issue of process automation. You wrote a report on the topic of Robotic Process Automation (Robotic Process…