As we are amid the huge crisis induced by the coronavirus, the concerns among the technology industry have sparked regarding who can emerge victorious in the post-pandemic future, and how? As RPA or for better terms Intelligent Automation is being touted as the recession-proof technology, can it really help companies face crisis well? How new-age technologies like this help steer the industry out of upheaval is yet to be fully discovered. As of now, what we can do is to look for answers in history. We can then analyse how some companies were successful in defeating recessions of the past. Analysing the corporate strategy and shifts data of past major global recessions, the 1980 crisis (which lasted from 1980 to 1982), the 1990 slowdown (1990 to 1991), and the 2000 bust (2000 to 2002), the Great Recession of 2008, HBR’s 2010 study revealed that, only a small number of companies—approximately 9% of their sample—flourished after a slowdown, doing better on key financial parameters than they had before it and outperforming rivals in their industry by at least 10% in terms of sales and profits growth.