CREDIT: THE ADECCO GROUP
“ AI for me is about helping me do a few things better. With Omnea, it’ s helping me answer a question like: how do I make this genuinely intuitive, so people can find what they need in a way they’ re already used to? For us, that’ s a conversation in Teams”
Kai Nowosel Chief Procurement Officer The Adecco Group
In the first six months, Omnea helped generate € 1.88m( US $ 2.17m) in savings linked to requests that would not have been visible without the platform.“ The business case was calculated with realistic estimates but we are overexceeding the business case by far.” Kai is equally direct about what makes the partnership work. It is not a vendor relationship in the conventional sense.“ I demand a lot, but give a lot. For me, a relationship is always a two-way street. I like Omnea to challenge my thinking as much as I like challenging theirs.”
AI that understands The Adecco Group Amid a procurement industry generating considerable heat around artificial intelligence. Kai’ s position is measured. At Adecco, AI is deployed through Omnea to give users a natural, conversational interface inside Microsoft Teams, the tool the business already uses, to raise and route procurement requests.
“ AI for me isn’ t about solving world hunger. It’ s about helping me do a few things better. With Omnea, it’ s helping me answer a question like: how do I make this genuinely intuitive, so people can find what they need in a way they’ re already used for? For us, that’ s a conversation in Teams. I wasn’ t sitting there thinking, Oh my God, now I have to ride the next AI wave.”
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