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How AI agents can eliminate waste in your business - and why that's smarter than cutting costs


The definition of wasteful activity in business is vague. AI agents offer a way to overcome this challenge.

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. According to Gartner, the top five actions CEOs are taking to safeguard organizational performance are led by pursuing cost-efficiency measures (77%), followed by adjusting pricing strategies (51%), and deploying fully automated, robotic, and AI systems (48%). The path to becoming an autonomous enterprise, using a hybrid workforce of humans and digital labor powered by AI agents, will help companies remove wasteful activities.

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