{"id":3930,"date":"2019-06-12T18:32:18","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T18:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.peeriosity.com\/shared-services\/articles\/?p=3930"},"modified":"2022-09-02T09:06:24","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T09:06:24","slug":"building-your-intelligent-automation-project-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peeriosity.com\/shared-services\/articles\/2019\/06\/building-your-intelligent-automation-project-pipeline\/","title":{"rendered":"Building Your Intelligent Automation Project Pipeline"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Many organizations have a robust process for prioritizing development opportunities, with excellent project management tools.\u00a0 Some also have a disciplined approach to measuring the cost\/benefit impact with post-project reviews to keep everyone honest.\u00a0 For Intelligent Automation<\/a> projects, and specifically Robotic Process Automation (RPA)<\/a>, where the go\/no go threshold is significantly lower due to low implementation costs and short project timelines, how do you develop your list of project candidates?\u00a0 What does your project pipeline look like in terms of potential impact, and what RPA idea collection approach yields the largest number of feasible automation projects?<\/span><\/p>\n

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

Recently, Peeriosity\u2019s iPollingTM<\/sup> was used by a member company\u2019s Process Improvement Lead to get insights to these issues.\u00a0 Using iPollingTM<\/sup>, it was possible for the poll author to create a poll from their regional Shared Services center located in Eastern Europe and quickly get insights from a larger number of peers from around the world. \u00a0The following are background comments that were provided when the poll was created:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMany companies have already gone through their RPA proof of concept phase and have started creating bots on their own or using outsourcing companies. At the very beginning of the RPA journey, without deep knowledge, many processes seem to be worth automating, but, with experience, that may change. Looking for good project candidates with significant time savings and quality improvements<\/a> can often become a challenge. I would like to know how other companies are looking for automation ideas.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The first question in this poll asked about the quality of the RPA pipeline.\u00a0 While the good news is that none of the respondents are struggling to find really good automation ideas, only 21% indicate that they have identified a large number of viable automation ideas that can have a favorable impact on operations, with 73% reporting that they have identified some impactful automation ideas, and also a lot of little ones which if implemented will have less of an impact.\u00a0 Here are the details:<\/span><\/p>\n

\"iPolling:<\/p>\n

When considering the collection approach that yields the largest number of significant automation projects, 53% indicated that the best source was to collect ideas directly from process owners performing tasks, with 13% favoring a top-down approach by collecting ideas from leaders and managers.\u00a0 Another 16% see the greatest source of viable projects to be from process improvement initiatives, and the remaining 18% get ideas from a range of approaches, making it difficult to point to one as the most impactful.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"iPolling:<\/p>\n

Here are several of the additional comments from members:<\/span><\/p>\n