The 36 steps the AEIO YOU method
Tony Walker
Founder at Lean IA | For Small-to-Medium Businesses. Process Optimisation, Simplified.
The underlying approach of the AEIO YOU method is to ensure you’re applying Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and intelligent automation to lean (aka streamlined and optimized) business processes. Using lean thinking you can achieve a much higher ROI from your new technology than if you were to have just automated bad processes.
Remember the old adage, ‘GIGO’ (Garbage in, garbage out)
Follow these steps to bring your RPA Centre of Excellence (CoE) team to a maturity level to proudly call it an Automation Factory. Then start again from step 1, but this time with a newer technology
Here are our 36 steps of the AEIO YOU method:
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1. Understand the Technology
2. Know the myths, Challenges and the Benefits
2b. Know the common mistakes and pitfalls
3. Understand the market
4. Choose the right solution provider
5. Be an evangelist
6. Run a Pilot (POV rather than POC)
7. Start building your Centre of Excellence
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8. Bring in the Experts
9. Involve staff so they welcome the change
10. Keep hold of your most valuable assets
11. Upskill to build capabilities inhouse
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12. Zoom out. Create an Enterprise Automation Roadmap
13. Zoom in: Define and Measure the problem
14. Filter on what’s suitable
15. Focus on the top 20% (80:20 rule)
16. Build a complexity map: Cost vs Benefits vs Financial savings
17. Prioritise: Go for some quick wins first
18. Zoom in further: Business Analysis 101 (Data and requirements gathering)
19. Root cause analysis
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20. Solution design
21. Lean thinking
22. Business Case: detailed cost-benefits analysis
23. Define the process
24. Design the solution
25. Build the solution using best practices
26. Prepare the data for testing
27. UAT
28. Hand over to support team
29. Launch
30. Reflect
31. Repeat and scale
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32. Realise the benefits
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33. Maintain the benefits
34. Manage the changes
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35. Circle back for continuous improvement
36. Discover newer technologies
You can learn more about implementing RPA (Robotic Process Automation) and intelligent automation at Leania.co. Your virtual consultant
You can read about Lean IA’s trademarked AEIO YOU method in their new book Business @ the Speed of Bots, How to implement RPA that scales