Have you just started using robotic process automation (RPA), or are you looking to start up an automation center of excellence (CoE) in your company to leverage RPA and start building automation solutions, or perhaps you want your new CoE to mature and grow?

This book is for RPA managers and change management who have or will soon bring automation into their organization and are looking to set up a CoE.

Whether your current automation team is two or 20, understand the roles and responsibilities and set up of a good team. Identify which roles you may be missing, and what scalable framework your team can work toward, in order to build an automation factory you can be proud of, which churns out solutions on demand. Also understand the behind-the-scene roles and considerations when it comes to maintaining your bots, things not mentioned as much in the media. Use this book as a guide to ensure you’re using the AEIO YOU method

Are your automation projects stalling or losing traction, or do you want to generate more opportunities and fill your pipeline?

This book is for RPA project managers and business analysts who work in a CoE or Operational Excellence (OpEx) team and are responsible for delivering automation but are new to RPA.

Whether you’ve only just heard of robotic process automation yesterday, have been doing it for a few months or a couple years, it's very valuable to understand the entire lifecycle, from identifying the problem, to designing, building, and testing the solution, to supporting the new capability. With this knowledge, you will be able to design and build much more robust robots and intelligent automation solutions, and be able to boast much higher ROIs on your business cases. You’ll be responsible for delivering more benefits to your organizations or clients. Furthermore, you’ll see how you can apply these same techniques and steps to implement advanced technologies like artificial intelligence. Use this book to check each of the 36 steps of the AEIO YOU method.

This book is also for COOs and operations directors and RPA sponsors who want a comprehensive view of how RPA/automation is implemented.

Hear industry best practices and insights, to get high-level steps on how to best implement intelligent automation. This with improve your awareness on what has been happening in the industry and what may be to come in the near future. This will help you understand the dos, don’ts, myths, challenges, and benefits of automating your business processes, and will give you a picture of what your team are doing…or should be doing. So, you can pass this book to them to ensure they are adopting the AEIO YOU method.

We go through the entire RPA (robotic process automation) lifecycle, from idea, to implementation, to scalable intelligent automation, with each chapter ending with questions to ask your center of excellence team.

Together we walk along the digital transformation journey, and learn from industry thought leaders like Guy Kirkwood - chief evangelist from UiPath, director of conversational AI company Artificial Solutions, and other RPA and AI experts and CEOs .

This book takes you through Lean IA’s 36 steps of the AEIO YOU methodology to scale successfully, discussing tools, techniques, roles, and responsibilities.

You will notice that the AEIO YOU method, which you can use to bring RPA into your company, can also be used for introducing any new technology.

We explore at the end of this book how you can repeat these steps to bring artificial intelligence into the fabric of your organization’s business processes and teams .