Becoming Strategic with Robotic Process Automation

The eagerly-awaited new book — Becoming Strategic with Robotic Process Automation — by Leslie Willcocks, John Hindle & Mary Lacity, is due to be released on 7th October. Order your copy now ...

Robotic Process Automation will continue its exponential growth over the next five years. With more than 54 vendors, different kinds of tools, generic applicability and as a cognitive and AI platform, RPA has fast become an opportunity that is too good to miss.

So, how do you leverage the massive potential business value? Based on four years of research into over 420 business deployments, this book identifies the distinctive leading practices of front-runners, and a Total Value of Ownership (TVO) framework to drive out value across the RPA life-cycle.

This book brings a new focus on RPA’s strategic potential: the innovations made possible and how to deliver through effective sourcing stakeholder-buy-in, governance, change management, and capability development practices. RPA as a platform, linking with cognitive and AI technologies as part of digital transformation is highlighted. The central messagesthink and behave strategically, start right, institutionalize fast, and innovate continuously – are demonstrated, with multiple client experiences, trials and lessons. From dealing with old world process and IT challenges, RPA is now being applied towards building the new digital world and becoming strategic in its application.

Key features of the book:

  • Based on extensive new research by world-renowned authors

  • Comprehensive market overview

  • A systematic set of action principles across the RPA life-cycle

  • Challenges, and where value is being left on the table

  • A focus on metrics and Total Value of Ownership

  • RPA as a foundation for cognitive and AI

  • Multiple client case studies