Develop Your Value-First Business Process Automation Strategy
Scale your business automation by focusing on the people, processes, and value that matter.
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Haphazardly scaling business process automation in your organization without strategy results in:
- Disjointed automation solutions that do not gain the benefit from working together.
- Overinvesting in technologies that do not best address the future problems of the business.
- Lack of stakeholder buy-in to invest in the practices needed to support your BPA objectives.
A value-driven business process automation strategy allows you to:
- Ensure that BPA initiatives and practices drive toward the business priorities that matter.
- Select the BPA opportunities that both deliver business value and set the right foundations.
- Prioritize the maturity of key BPA capabilities that meets your target state practice.
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Onsite Workshops offer an easy way to accelerate your project. If you are unable to do the project yourself, and a Guided Implementation isn’t enough, we offer low-cost onsite delivery of our Project Workshops. We take you through every phase of your project and ensure that you have a road map in place to complete your project successfully.
Book NowModule 1: Understand the Context
The Purpose
Understand the business priorities and your stakeholders' needs that are driving your business process automation initiatives while abiding by the risk and change appetite of your organization.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Translate business priorities to the context of business process automation.
- Arrive at a common definition of business value.
- Come to an understanding of the needs, concerns, and problems of BPA stakeholders.
- Discover organizational risk and change tolerance and appetite.
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| 1.1 | Set the Business Context |
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| 1.2 | Understand Your Stakeholder Needs |
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| 1.3 | Build Your Risk & Change Profile |
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Module 2: Define Your BPA Objectives and Opportunities
The Purpose
Set reasonable and achievable expectations for your BPA initiatives and practices, and select the right BPA opportunities to meet these expectations.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Align BPA objectives and metrics to your business priorities.
- Create guiding principles that support your organization’s and team’s culture.
- Define a vision of your target-state BPA practice
- Create a list of BPA opportunities that will help build your practice and meet business priorities.
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| 2.1 | Define Your BPA Expectations |
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| 2.2 | List Your Guiding Principles |
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| 2.3 | Envision Your BPA Target State |
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| 2.4 | Build Your Opportunity Backlog |
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Module 3: Assess Your BPA Maturity
The Purpose
Evaluate the current state of your BPA practice and its readiness to support scaled and complex BPA solutions.
Key Benefits Achieved
- List key capabilities to implement and optimize to meet the target state of your BPA practice.
- Brainstorm solutions to address the gaps in your BPA capabilities.
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| 3.1 | Assess Your BPA Maturity |
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Module 4: Roadmap Your BPA Initiatives
The Purpose
Identify high-priority key initiatives to support your BPA objectives and goals, and establish the starting point of your BPA strategy.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Create an achievable roadmap of BPA initiatives designed to deliver good practices and valuable automations.
- Perform a risk assessment of your BPA initiatives and create mitigations for high-priority risks.
- Find the starting point in the development of your BPA strategy.
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| 4.1 | Roadmap Your BPA Initiatives |
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| 4.2 | Assess and Mitigate Your Risks |
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| 4.3 | Complete Your BPA Strategy |
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