{"id":3808,"date":"2019-02-20T22:00:50","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T22:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.peeriosity.com\/shared-services\/articles\/?p=3808"},"modified":"2022-09-05T16:43:12","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T16:43:12","slug":"intelligent-automation-speed-and-project-staffing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peeriosity.com\/shared-services\/articles\/2019\/02\/intelligent-automation-speed-and-project-staffing\/","title":{"rendered":"Intelligent Automation Speed and Project Staffing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Setting up a Center of Excellence for Intelligent Automation can provide companies with the needed infrastructure to design and implement solutions for Shared Services and, in some instances, across a wide range of business processes.\u00a0\u00a0 While the concept makes sense, the creation of Centers of Excellence is still in its infancy, even in the most advanced companies.\u00a0 And flushing out the details for how to get started can be challenging.\u00a0 For example, knowing how many people to allocate to developing bots<\/a>, and how many bots a team can implement in a year, aren\u2019t easy questions to answer.\u00a0 However, it doesn\u2019t have to be a complete guess, since many of these building-block questions can be answered by knowing the actual experiences of your peers.<\/span><\/p>\n

This research paper is a top-level summary of a recent poll that was conducted in Peeriosity\u2019s Intelligent Automation research area<\/a>.\u00a0 For Peeriosity members, full visibility to all the details of the poll is available, including the ability to interact directly with participating peers.<\/span><\/p>\n

iPollingTM<\/sup> Results Review<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Recently, Peeriosity\u2019s iPollingTM<\/sup> was used by an Automation COE Expert at a member company to understand the staffing sizes and implementation speeds specifically related to bots. Responses were posted in real-time, with visibility to company responses available to all Peeriosity members, allowing for direct communication with peers using Peeriosity\u2019s integrated Peer MailTM<\/sup> capabilities.<\/span><\/p>\n

The first polling question on staffing size asked for details on the number of people member companies currently have allocated to developing bots.\u00a0 While 19% don\u2019t have anyone allocated because they haven\u2019t started yet, 43% indicated they have 3 to 5 people allocated to developing bots.\u00a0 19% report having more than 6, and the remaining 19% have 1 or 2 people allocated.\u00a0 Here are the details:<\/span><\/p>\n

\"iPolling:<\/p>\n

While it is a bit of an estimate for how many bots the COE development team can implement in a year on average, it can be helpful to know what the general parameters are for companies with implementation experience.\u00a0 While 39% indicate that it\u2019s too early to tell, 26% report they expect their team to implement more than 20 bots per year, 9% think the number is between 10 and 15, and the remaining 26% expect the number to be between 1 and 5.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"iPolling:<\/p>\n

Here are some comments from responding companies:<\/span><\/p>\n