You’re ready to set out on your RPA journey, or maybe it has began already. Either way, there are many obstacles that stand in the path of scaling up your efforts for maximum effectiveness. To ensure your business gets the most out of its automation program is to ensure it scales!
Scale automation across teams, departments, functions, and roles to alleviate the mundane tasks your human capital is bogged down by. This notion is easier said than done though. So how do we ensure scalability not just in the short term, but for the foreseeable future?
Look no further, here are the 5 steps to scaling and transforming your business with RPA.
1. Set your objective
2. Encourage new ideas for the completion of that objection
3. Prioritize each option for business cost and benefits
4. Execute the implementation of those projects
5. Track the value of each project
1. Set your objective
Every business has strategic objectives to reach its overall goals for the current year, quarter, or month. By having these objectives clearly defined, it helps to plant the seed of transformation in the mind of every employee in your business. Objectives like; reduce costs, increase revenues, increase the efficiency of tasks, or innovate new products are good examples.
2. Encourage new ideas for the completion of that objection
Now that your strategic plan is set, it’s time for ideation. Leverage the educated employees you’ve hired to provide options for improvement based on your objective. These employees are on the ground floor of your operation and have better context into what processes need automating or gaps in service.
3. Prioritize each option for business cost and benefits
Once finished capturing all ideas across the organization for improvement, it’s time to stack, rank and prioritize these options into realistic business cases. What is going to offer the highest impact with the lowest cost to launch? What projects can be put on hold and tackled at a later date?
4. Execute the implementation of those projects
Manage the application of your transformation program across the necessary teams. Keep track of the progress and use of the business program to ensure adoption. Allow for an easy exchange between hours spent doing monotonous work and minutes spent updating the transformation team on progress.
In cases where more than one program is being used to execute a single project, use a tool to combine the findings across all vendors to create a single source of truth for the business.
5. Track the value
This is the most important piece in transforming your business. Anyone can set a strategy, and execute on it to a certain extent. Those business leaders who can show the positive or negative effects of a program will be able to adjust and adapt faster than those who do not do so in a timely fashion.
By combining time-saved, revenue increased, and bot usage among other metrics you can paint a clear picture of the dollar value the program gave back to the business. Seeing these business metrics in real-time will allow leaders to fail fast, or fuel the successful projects quickly.
Now that you’re experts in how to scale your business’s culture of transformation and constant innovation, you may be wondering how to easily execute on these steps. That’s where Shibumi can help.
The Shibumi platform combines every step of the process into one cloud-based location for your team to provide inputs and updates, and your executives to track the benefits of the programs that are implemented.
To find out more about this all-in-one platform feel free to contact a member of our team for a demonstration. To access the full list of steps for RPA and transformation success, see our post on the Required Competencies for RPA at Scale and download the whitepaper.