New technology for/in a workplace in 5 minutes

tacpot12

Robotisation. I work in Financial Services and have been deploying software robots for years to automate manual processes.

You needs to sell the benefits, and explain one or two difficulties with implementing the idea and how they might be overcome.

neilmcl

gettingready wrote: »

I am probably over thinking that - needs to be something really simple and possible to cover in 5 minutes but useful.

Not really, it just needs to be something you can summarise in 5 mins. They're not expecting you to go into minute detail. They're looking for you to be articulate and to the point.

DoaM

What's the job role you're interviewing for? (Context is important when seeking advice).

Heedtheadvice

OP I think you might be missing the point altogether. Taking your instruction that you posted, you need to explain a new technology.
Is there any mention that you need to invent a new technology or makes suggestion that it is to be related to the particular workplace? If the latter then do you know enough about the workplace to do that? It might seem to help to make it relevant!

However usually this sort of exercise is looking to see if you can structure an argument, present it, work under pressure, address concerns and make them go along with your logic and be convinced, in a short space of time...Not about can you use tools or come up with something to astound them.....Although the latter would be great!

psychic_teabag

One area I found very interesting recently, though might require some work to fit into your context... adaptive power loading ("dynamic demand" ?) to help smooth out peaks and troughs in the national power grid. First read about it with fridges which adjust their duty cycles to match supply/demand. But chargers are another obvious candidate, as are big server farms. (Of course, big industry is possibly a much more obvious target.)

But I am behind the times - perhaps everyone knows about all this now and it isn't considered new technology any more.

gettingready

Thanks everyone - it is a training role for an office where new technologies are being implemented. No, do not know what they currently do/do not use.
I have several years training experience but in a different sector, very specialist.
Still trying to figure out what a suitable topic may be.
Sorry can not give any more details re company as this topic comes up as the first item on top of Google search now for "New technology in 5 minutes" - opsss

bob_a_builder

So from that it seem that this infor posted earlier is relevant

"I suspect they want to test your ability to give a high level overview of a large/complex concept - i.e. the features and benefits (without discussing all the details)."

gettingready

That is correct - the question still remains. Covering something in 5 minutes - the topic...

I think I got some ideas so will try to work on those and see what comes out of it but will be checking the thread in case someone has some amazing topic idea that I have not thought of, thanks

AndyPix

Im confused


Is this supposed to be discussing a new technology that someone else has created (ie new to the market),
Or a completely new technology that you are "inventing" ??

gettingready

Introducing new technology to office staff members - something they have not used before but company is going to implement.

So can be something that already exists on the market but is not being used in that particular office yet or something totally made up.