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Envision Technology Advisors LLC
THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC OFFERS opportunities for forward-thinking Envision Technology Advisors LLC CEO Todd Knapp.
“Why preserve the past? I want to lean into the future,” Knapp said.
Providing holistic information technology solutions, Pawtucket-based Envision promotes digital transformation, which fundamentally rethinks an entity’s platform, people, processes and products. “Its technology solutions allow people to connect in more meaningful ways and … make data-driven decisions,” Knapp said.
With digital transformation, Envision is “selling freedom,” Knapp said. By automating rote tasks, digital transformation gives employees valuable time to connect with customers, something especially critical during the pandemic.
“While many Envision clients avoided pandemic-related layoffs, early on Envision developed and distributed a pandemic preparedness guide, with input from business and immunology experts, for businesses interested in keeping their employees and businesses healthy,” said Jeremy Girard, Envision’s director of marketing.
Envision also champions agile workforces, in which technology, processes and training are so effective that employees can easily transition from one job to another, with universally accessible data. Organizations supporting employees working from home aren’t necessarily supporting agile workforces, Knapp said, as agile workforce employees manage their work wherever they are – on a park bench, their cars or elsewhere.
Skills for Rhode Island’s Future and Envision coordinated an intensive seven-week, paid internship for 500 Rhode Island high school juniors.
“The engagement level was unprecedented,” Knapp said. “These kids, some of whom had never used a Microsoft collaboration platform … built mobile apps, websites, wearable technologies and holographic mixed-reality prototypes.”
With 118 mentors and coaches, interns held more than 3,500 Zoom meetings and posted more than 200,000 posts and chats. Knapp said Envision coached the interns on prototyping, programming, automation, how to think big and how to collaborate in a professional environment.
