Mission 5
Optimizing the Ideation Pipeline
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.
There are many potential use cases for automation, but not all of them are created equal. Some use cases generate more ROI than others, while some are more feasible to automate. If you are balancing executive input, resource constraints, and use case complexity, your automation pipeline needs your laser focus. By prioritizing automation use cases with the right balance of complexity, risk, and value, you can assign resources to the highest ROI and least complex automations, ultimately achieving the greatest impact within your existing capabilities and investments.
- Defining or updating requirements for use case submission and creating a plan to communicate those requirements with stakeholders
- Identifying a new channel(s) for submission and an execution plan with named owners
- Establishing a complexity-risk-value (CRV) metrics strategy for use case prioritization and a communication plan to educate the organization
- Prioritizing your slate of use case sources, from executive stakeholder to business partner to crowdsourcing
- Evaluating your scaling options: business analyst army, tooling platform, or hybrid model
- Mapping a business analyst certification program to accelerate pipeline goals
- Developing a recognition and reward program tied to key business objectives
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- Mission 1: Establishing a Foundation for Automation Success
- Mission 2: Expanding your Program through Evangelism and Engagement
- Mission 3: Streamlining Automation Development and Delivery
- Mission 4: Scaling Your Team for Success
- Mission 6: Expanding through Citizen Development
- Mission 7: Hyperscaling Across the Enterprise
How do you build a pipeline of worthy use case ideas? Then, how do you manage your resources and keep your pipeline from drying up? More than half of our Pathfinders choose Mission 5 to focus on because pipeline development and management can be tricky to master! Mission 5 was curated to help you create a path toward achieving more by optimizing your ideation pipeline. Prioritizing automation use cases with the right balance of complexity, risk, and value, allows you to assign resources to the highest ROI and least complex automations, ultimately achieving the greatest impact within your existing capabilities and investments.
In Mission 5, you'll learn the golden rule of automation: There are many potential use cases for automation, but not all of them are created equal.
Your automation team needs to build an effective opportunity intake and evaluation process to scale your impact. This includes defining the appropriate criteria for selecting opportunities and improving your communication with other lines of business to encourage them to contribute high-quality ideas. These key components of Mission 5 will help you accomplish that:
Opportunity intake and process discovery
Use case assessment
Pipeline management and prioritization