Tired of processes so old they remember when 'the cloud' was just a weather phenomenon? The Office Samurai Podcast slices into the heart of modern business, showing how AI and automation aren't just buzzwords for your boss to throw around. We explore practical ways GenAI, RPA, and intelligent automation can actually transform enterprise processes.
Why do corporate timesheets always add up to 8 hours? Explore #ProcessIntelligence #Automation #AIAgents with Andrzej Kinastowski.
In this episode of AI Automation Dojo, we break down why traditional time tracking simply doesn't work. When companies try to track people in secret or force them to manually log hours in Excel, they don't get accurate data - they get fake busyness and reporting driven by fear.
Instead of invasive surveillance, we share how to implement Process Intelligence tools built on clear, transparent rules. The goal is to spot real process bottlenecks fast without destroying team trust.
You’ll learn:
🔸 Why "stealth tracking" always produces corrupted data
🔸 How to collect process data without recording screens or spying on people
🔸 What a public application whitelist is and how it removes employee anxiety
🔸 How to shift executive questions from "what did you do?" to "what is blocking you?"
🔸 Why process measurement tools should cover management as well
If you want to know how to set up process measurement on fair and safe ground, this episode is for you.
9 Sept 2026
7 comfortable lies that kill AI transformations
Why don't AI rollouts die - why do they just stall? #Automation #ProcessIntelligence #AIAgents #GBS #SSC
Most enterprise AI deployments don't end in spectacular failure. They simply run on indefinitely as attractive demos, wheeled out once a quarter to impress the board. The technology itself works fine. The real problem sits in the layer nobody wants to talk about out loud: badly designed processes.
In this episode, Andrzej Kinastowski takes an unvarnished look at why technology transformations fall apart. We examine what happens when you industrialize chaos - automating processes that are fundamentally broken and should have been deleted outright rather than sped up. You'll also learn why your organization may not actually run on the expensive ERP system at all, but on hidden Excel files that modern analytics tools are blind to.
This one is made for directors, managers and leaders in finance, HR and administration who want to stop investing in comfortable half-measures and start implementing solutions with a real, visible return in the P&L.
What you'll learn in this episode:
🔸The 7 comfortable lies of transformation – from blind faith in analytics platforms to pointlessly building new AI teams.
🔸Industrializing chaos – why using technology to speed up a broken process only compounds the problem.
🔸The process mining blind spot – where the work actually leaks away, out of sight of your ERP and CRM.
🔸The personal productivity trap – why saving a few minutes on chatbot-written emails will never show up in the financial result.
🔸The executive sponsor – why without one, your odds aren't lower, they're exactly zero.
🔸What actually works – how simple process mapping and fixing the handoffs between departments recovers real money.
Instead of looking for shortcuts, choose the correct option over the comfortable one. Fix your processes before you hand them to artificial intelligence.
19 Aug 2026
AI in Shared Services: where it works, function by function
What you offshored Is already your AI Roadmap. Your Shared Services Center already ran this exact filter 30 years ago and it's the same filter AI is running today.
Somebody in your company already figured out where to automate with AI. They did it years ago, when they decided what to move to your Shared Services Center / GBS / BPO. The criteria never changed: high volume, repetitive, rule-based. That's the same list AI is good at right now.
In this episode, we walk the floor of a shared services organization function by function — Finance, HR, IT, Procurement, Documents, Legal, Customer Service and flag exactly where to point AI first, where to keep a human close, and where it's still too early.
What's actually in this episode:
🔸 An invoice-status agent that answers "did we get paid?" in plain language, without ever guessing
🔸 Vendor mailbox: from writing 200 near-identical emails a week to approving them
🔸 IT Service Desk: at some clients, access requests and revokes are up to 40% of all tickets
🔸 CV screening that took candidate review from two weeks down to 48 hours
🔸 A legal-monitoring system reading up to 600 regulatory acts a month, sorting them with 93–95% accuracy — in some cases beating the specialist who used to do it by hand
🔸 Document processing that cut prep time by 70–90% on hostile, multi-language scans
🔸 A logistics client whose automation went from a planned 30% to north of 60%
🔸 Why a customer-service AI pilot opened at 68% accuracy — and why that's the point, not the problem
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