Automation Journey – Instantiate

Combined Intelligence are specialists in Automation, Artificial Intelligence and related Intelligent Technologies. We have a team with many years of practical experience successfully leading the creation of centres of excellence, building effective delivery teams and implementing innovative solutions that transform how businesses operate and enhance the products and services they deliver to their customers. Our experience is first-hand and not just as consultants.

We have seen many organisations struggle to achieve the full range of automation benefits and we believe we can help these organisations by resolving the challenges that are blocking their success and by identifying opportunities to go further. On our Automation Journey  page, we describe how organisations need to go on a journey (from identifying the need through to achieving hyper-automation) to achieve the full range and extent of automation benefits. We split this overall journey into three phases called Build, Scale and Evolve.

Under our Instantiate initiative, we focus on how Combined Intelligence can help organisations in the Build phase of this journey, this includes organisations at any step of their journey from having no capability but an identified need for automation through to organisations who have built a capability but are either struggling to achieve the benefits they expected or need reassurance that they’re on the right path.

The initial build phase of the journey includes:

1. Need – Recognising the need for automation across the organisation.
2. Vision – Setting an incremental vision for automation and the benefits expected to be achieved.
3. Pilot – Demonstrating the potential through an initial pilot.
4. Live – Live process automations delivering value, often at a divisional / business function level.

If you have already successfully created a good collection of initial automations delivering real benefit, then please see our Invigorate and Intellect initiatives which describe how we can help organisations further on in their automation journey:

• Invigorate – How to scale an existing programme and take it to the next level.
• Intellect – How to add intelligence into automation and evolve automation into the DNA of the organisation.

The objective of our Instantiate package is to deliver rapid guidance and recommendations to clients within a 3 – 4 week elapsed period. We achieve this by following these steps (tailoring our approach based on input from the client):

• Understand – Understand the organisation’s current state and scope Instantiate objectives appropriately:
  • Achieved through conversations and virtual workshops with primary stakeholders.
  • Produces an agreed scope of work including commitments on timescales and resource availability.
• Assess – Assess the current state and capability:
  • Conversations (audio/video conferencing) with key stakeholders
  • Perform an assessment of current documentation (as provided by key stakeholders).
  • Review current progress, via screen share sessions.
  • Identify key challenges and opportunities.
• Deliver – Deliver outcomes:
  • Construct guidance and recommendations, review and agree with primary stakeholders.
  • Present and share the outcomes to key stakeholders and senior management.

Our Instantiate package is an introduction to our capabilities and allows us to demonstrate the value we can bring. We therefore only charge an introductory fee, to us the most important thing is to establish a relationship and to deliver real value through this initial engagement.

This is aligned with our organisational values:

•  Trust – Inspire and demonstrate trust.
•  Honesty – Be honest and open at all times.
•  Respect – Show respect, encourage and reward.
•  Innovation – Think outside the box.
•  Value – Ensure real value in everything we do.
•  Exploration – Go beyond what’s been done before.

With these values we’ll THRIVE together.