Pathfinder Mission Control

Identify your automation strengths, and chart a course to conquer new frontiers by selecting missions that guide you towards automation success and scale

Kickstart your Digital Workforce
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Set and share a vision for success and set up the environment for delivering it
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People
Hire and train your team
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Pipeline
Identify opportunities from initial quick wins to long term ROI
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Develop and deliver automation with operational excellence
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Promotion & engagement
Promote your program's impact and find your first champions
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Speed up and broaden your business impact
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Set performance and delivery metrics
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Optimize your operating model
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Systematize idea intake and prioritization
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Integrate development best practices
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Grow executive sponsorship through program value
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Expand automation across the enterprise
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Maximize impact, scale and sustain your program
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Federate and democratize your operations
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Engage the entire organization in process discovery and pipeline growth
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Deliver more robust automation capabilities
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Excel at internal and external community engagement
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Find out where you are in your automation journey with our interactive assessment
Find out where you are in your automation journey with our interactive assessment

Find out where you are in your automation journey with our interactive assessment

  • See metrics about your program maturity, strengths, and growth areas
  • Receive actionable guidance about how to stimulate your program and increase your impact

Tip: Screenshare and complete the assessment live with your whole team for the most accurate results and a thought-provoking discussion.

Time to complete: about 20 min

Pathfinder Program Missions
What are your top goals right now? Choose from Pathfinder Missions to accelerate your automation growth.
Establishing a Foundation for Automation Success
Mission 1
Fast-track success by focusing on your foundation first

If your team recently inherited an automation program or your organization has restructured due to acquisition, divestiture or post-pandemic reorganization, this mission is designed for you. Start here to find and deliver quick wins while building a strong foundation for ongoing success.

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Expanding your Program through Evangelism and Engagement
Mission 2
Inspire your stakeholders and C-suite to be advocates for your automation growth strategy

If your program successfully delivers automations on a regular basis, but you're challenged to get buy-in to grow the program, you may benefit from brushing up on your internal marketing skills. You're not alone - 90% of enterprises choose Mission 2. Learning to effectively communicate your program's success and vision for future impact is a must for achieving your automation program's growth goals.

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Streamlining Automation Development and Delivery
Mission 3
Boost your speed to value with best practices in automation development

Ready to hit warp speed with your automation development? If you're looking to decrease time to value, Mission 3 will put you on a fast path. Teams who choose Mission 3 are often responsible for scaling their programs to new parts of the organization, transitioning to a federated or co-federated model, or simply need to deliver faster to achieve quicker ROI.

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Scaling Your Team for Success
Mission 4
Discover models and methods that fuel your program and people for growth

If you're ready to expand your program, Mission 4 will help you focus your efforts on creating a solid foundation that supports growth. You'll focus your energy looking inward first, optimizing your teams, talent, and operating model, and exploring how to build upon your current success while forging a path for long term growth - for both your people and your program.

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Optimizing the Ideation Pipeline
Mission 5
Finding balance in your pipeline to drive maximum impact

Whether your organization's pipeline is a little dry on ideas or you've got too many to tackle, Mission 5 can help you create a path toward achieving more through optimization of your ideation pipeline. More than half of Pathfinders choose Mission 5 because maintaining ideation input while getting the balance right-high ROI versus low cost and complexity-can be difficult, especially while scaling your automation program.

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Expanding through Citizen Development
Mission 6
Democratize access to automation across the enterprise

Looking to scale automation beyond your core team of automation experts? Creating a citizen development program is a great way to increase the impact of automation by empowering non-technical employees to create and deploy automations to solve the problems and pain points they experience every day. Mission 6 focuses on how to engage your organization’s knowledge workers through development best practices, training, and a community of practice that offers guidance and support.

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Hyperscaling Across the Enterprise
Mission 7
Leverage generative AI to supercharge the impact of your intelligent automation program

Generative AI is here, and its impact is exponential, especially when it comes to intelligent automation applications. With this potent technology, you can scale faster through generative AI-powered decision-making and automation development. Mission 7 provides a step-by-step plan to hyperscale across your enterprise by harnessing the power of generative AI.

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Find your role in the flight crew

Each person plays a different role in the automation journey. These resources can guide you on where to focus.

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Automation Leader
Automation Leader

Automation Leader

Sometimes called: CoE Manager, Head of Automation or Process Automation
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Citizen Developer
Citizen Developer

Citizen Developer

Sometimes called: Business User, RPA Enthusiast
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Developer
Developer

Developer

Sometimes called: Bot Builder, Automation Innovator
Explore by journey stage

Browse resources by the three key stages of automation program growth to ensure you're moving through each stage effectively.

Start

Kickstart your Digital Workforce

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Stories of Scale from our Q4 User Groups

Our User Group meetings are always lively and chock full of ideas, ways to overcome challenges, shared goals and so much more.
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Overheard at Q4 User Group Dinners: Listen in on our customer conversations

Getting together with customers over dinner always provides a frictionless forum to share information and success stories.
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Stories of Scale from our Q3 User Group

Learn how automation leaders like you are scaling and succeeding at driving business impact.
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How to Build an Automation Team for Long Term Scale & Growth (Part 1)

Learn from MVP Jim Frost about how to establish the foundation for a strong automation program and team.
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Framework for Building Out Automations

Our Solution Pattern Modeling Framework will help speed up the process of building and documenting automations, and ensuring a robust implementation.
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How to Structure People's Roles in Your Automation Program

Getting started on your Automation Journey? Remember, it's people who are your greatest asset.
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Identifying Automation Opportunities from the Start

When you're in the "Start Phase" of process discovery, focus on a few key areas of identifying opportunities.
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Developing a Compelling Automation Program Vision and Goals

A vision statement gives insight into what doesn't exist yet - what you're bringing to life.
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Workshop for Setting Goals

Setting strategic goals helps your organization and your automation team know exactly what to focus on.
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Plugging in to the Automation Anywhere Pathfinder Community Early On

Surround yourself in a community of people who share common goals and who may be facing similar challenges.
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Pathfinder Mission Control: the Community's Complete Book of Plays for Automation Hyperscale

Book of Action Plays for Growth and Scale
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Confessions of Automation Leaders

These quick-to-read case studies all stand out for their innovative approaches to getting associates to rally around the Citizen Development cause.
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An Email Template to Promote Your Automation Program

This email template from Automation Anywhere's own CIO is one you can use to generate excitement about your automation program within your own organization.
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Webinars: Hyperscaling Your Automation Journey

Everyone wants an automation program that scales in a sustainable and manageable way. In this series, we're going to be going through the tips and tricks you need to know to set up an automation program that is built for scale.
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(Start) Best Practice Guide for Development Standards

This article helps you define a framework for all the developers to follow and setup a best practices guide to ensure everyone follows the same standards.
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(Start) Setting the Stage for an Automation-First Organization

Set the stage to define how the future of your organization's digital transformation strategy can be empowered through the expanded adoption of automation.
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(Start) Beginning to Leverage Complimentary Technologies

Enable developers to leverage programming languages from within a bot by leveraging language-specific packages and a customizable package SDK.
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(Start) Creating a Solution Design Document for What's to Come

Let's dive into the Automation Anywhere SDD template and understand how and where the documents should be stored for easy retrieval and auditing.
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(Start) Leveraging Pre-Built Automations and Packages

Leverage Bot Store with hundreds of pre-built bots and packages to accelerate your RPA development instead of having to build everything from scratch.
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(Start) Building with a "Reusability-First" Mindset

Examine how building with a "reusability-first" mindset can accelerate your automation development efforts and utlimately make life as an automation developer easier.
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(Start) Deciding on the Right Data to Prove Performance

Establish guidance on the key metrics to be captured and report savings.
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(Start) Developing an Intake Process for Automation Ideas

Establishing a process to idenfity processes to be automated from across the departments in an organization.
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Learning Trail: Citizen Developer Basics

Designed exclusively for Citizen Developers, this learning trail covers the basics of RPA, use cases for automation, common actions, and how to build a basic bot.
Accelerate

Speed and broaden your business impact

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Getting Hands on With CoE Manager

Learn how to use CoE Manager to submit, track, manage, and monitor an automation opportunity from idea submission to a deployed automation.
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5 Pillars for Moving Your Automation Program "Beyond the Bot"

An easy-to-digest way to achieve business strategy and growth.
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Blueprint: Demonstrate Maximum Value of Your Automation Program

Bringing both measurable and intangible value to your organization
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Pathfinder Mission Control: the Community's Complete Book of Plays for Automation Hyperscale

Book of Action Plays for Growth and Scale
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Blueprint: Driving a Healthy Use Case Pipeline

3 tips to drive a healthy use case pipeline and answer the question: What do I automate next?
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Blueprint: Promoting Your Automation Program

How to embark on an effective evangelism roadshow.
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(Accelerate) Solution Patterning for Expanding Automation Opportunities

These patterns help you expand the types of automation opportunities that the team can take on and represents maturity in your use of the full capabilities of the Automation Anywhere platform.
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(Accelerate) Delivering Automations for a New Functional Area

Plan your first expansion of automation-delivery outside of the automation CoE team and set the stage for a systematic approach to scale as you move forward.
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(Accelerate) Contributing Specific Bots to the Bot Store

Explore contributing Bots to Bot Store and build your brand by showcasing your expertise to our global customers.
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(Accelerate) How Citizen Development Can Expand and Multiply ROI

Leverage the power of Citizen Development to expand and multiply the ROI for their automation programs.
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Webinars: Hyperscaling Your Automation Journey

Everyone wants an automation program that scales in a sustainable and manageable way. In this series, we're going to be going through the tips and tricks you need to know to set up an automation program that is built for scale.
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Special Access: Templates and Planning Documents from Professional Services

Use the templates from Automation Anywhere's Professional Services team to incorporate proven best practices into your automation program.
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Leverage A+ Accelerators to Start, Accelerate, and Scale

Our A+ Accelerators dive deep into specific automation growth moments to help you scale.
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Learning Trail: Automation Anywhere Robotic Interface (AARI) Developer

This learning trail introduces you to AARI to enable you to achieve a truly digital enterprise by rethinking how people and digital assistants work together.
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Learning Trail: Citizen Developer Practitioner

Expand your RPA skills and knowledge to create and deploy bots that can automate your simple business processes, improve your productivity, and scale your RPA journey.
Scale

Expand automation across the enterprise

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Developing an Intake Process for Automation Ideas

Let's look at some keys to systematically scale your automation initiatives as you continue to expand.
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Where to start scaling: Citizen Development or Democratized Automation?

Take this quiz.
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Blueprint: Achieve Hyperscale by Democratizing your Automation Program

AKA: Can just anyone really do this?
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Pathfinder Mission Control: the Community's Complete Book of Plays for Automation Hyperscale

Book of Action Plays for Growth and Scale
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Blueprint: Achieving Success at Scale with Citizen Development

How to effectively prepare to roll out Citizen Development
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(Scale) Propelling the Next Leg of Expansion

Systematically onboard new "factories" to your automation practice. Reflect back on the aspects that helped the onboarding process to go smoothly as well as the ones that seemed to detract from this new team's time to value.
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(Scale) Building an Internal Community of Practice

Learn about the two key areas that can help accelerate the onboarding and maturation of new developers being brought into the automation practice.
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(Scale) Exploring Thought Leadership by Contributing to Bot Store

Start building thought leadership and showcase your technical expertise by contributing Application packages to Bot Store.
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Webinars: Hyperscaling Your Automation Journey

Everyone wants an automation program that scales in a sustainable and manageable way. In this series, we're going to be going through the tips and tricks you need to know to set up an automation program that is built for scale.
Explore milestones of a successful automation program

These 5 essential pillars are the key.