Learn how Stanley Black & Decker (working with ISG) aligns Automation Strategy to Business Strategy and accelerates bot building and cognitive automation.

1. Stanley Black & Decker
ISG
Cynthia A. Holmecki
Stanley Black & Decker
Global Leader
Intelligent Automation Solutions
Shelley Laine
Director, ISG Automation

2. Shelly Laine
Director, ISG Automation
Cynthia A. Holmecki
Global Leader, Intelligent Automation Solutions

3. SBD Company Profile – By the Numbers
 175+ Year History
 #1 in Tools and Storage
 #2 in Commercial Electronic Security
 #2 in Engineered Fastening
 52,000+ Employees in 50 Countries
 500,000+ Products
 150 Million Shares Outstanding (NYSE)
 140+ Years of Consecutive Dividend Payouts
 13,000+ Registered and Active Global Patents
 Corporate Vision 22/22
SBD Company Profile – By the Numbers

4. SBD Company Profile – By the Numbers
 Rapid growth through acquisition
 Purchased 120 companies in 10 years
 At one time had 100+ EPRs
 2014 – began integrating systems to standardize platform
and process
 2017 – recognized the need to automate repetitive tasks
 Began our Automation Journey
The Business Challenge

5. OUR INTELLIGENT AUTOMATION JOURNEY
Our RPA
Investigation
Begins
Nov
2016
Vendor Meetings
and Demos
Jan 2017
Requirements
scrum held with
stakeholders and
vendors
May
2017
SBD Partners
with ISG on RPA
Journey
May
2017
Conduct POC on
Vendor Master
July
2017
SBD selects
Automation
Anywhere for
RPA
Aug
2017
AA Environments
stood up and
configured
Sept
2017
Resources are
recruited for
RPA Team
Sept
2017
ISG Conducts
Training for SBD
Team on AA
Sept
2017
Intelligent
Automation
Solutions CoE
is established
Jan 2018
First Automation
goes into
Production
Feb 2018
IAS CoE Ends the
year with 15
automations
providing ~ $3M
Benefit
Dec 2018
Investigation
into OCR / ML
and CLM tools
Begins
Jun 2018
IAS CoE Puts 20th
Automation into
Production
Feb 2019
SBD partners
with ISG to
Select and
Implement
OCR / ML Tool
2019
SBD Selects and
Implements CLM
Tool
2019

6. SBD Company Profile – By the Numbers
 Work with ISG to adopt acceleration techniques to drive faster adoption through
rapid process assessments, accelerated bot building and cognitive automation
 Advance training for CoE leads in best practices, procedures and techniques
to lead the CoE and federated organizations into advanced levels of
automation and deployment across the enterprise
 Align Automation Strategy with Business Strategy
 Lay CoE Foundation to support multiple automation tools – both robotic
and cognitive
 Become skilled in techniques in successful deployment of the CoE
accelerated automation deployment
Now and in the Future…