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Centric Alumni Mike Ryba is a solutions-driven and strategic IT professional offering over 35 years of Information Technology experience across a variety of industries including financial services, banking, transportation, and retail. His roles have ranged from Programmer to Software Development Manager to ITSM Director. As a Robotics Process Automation (RPA) Developer and Architect, Mike helped to drive our RPA practice and provides oversight and guidance to other RPA Developers in the organization.

Establish a Robotic Process Automation Center of Excellence

Learn how to establish an RPA center of excellence that is sustainable, maintainable and will improve IT processes.

Design and Approval: A Solution Design Document, The Finishing Touch Before RPA Development

We discuss how to finalize the process definition document and get started on the solution design document, so you can move on to RPA development.

Discover and Document: Creating Your Process Definition Document Before Automation

We discuss the process discovery and documentation during an RPA use case intake and how to create a detailed process definition document.

Feasibility and Priority: Identifying the Best Opportunities for Process Automation

In part two of this series, we focus on feasibility and priority when choosing the right process for RPA, including how to determine ROI and prioritization.

Analysis and Ideation: Starting Down the RPA Path

Getting started with RPA shouldn’t start with every process in your company - begin with analysis and ideation for an RPA use case process intake.

Blog Series: Choosing the Right Process to Automate Is the Place to Start

We discuss how to choose the best processes for Robotic Process Automation (RPA), starting small to laying out the final path.

Rearranging Your Thoughts on RPA

It's important to include People and Change Management and ITSM as part of the discussion as you venture down the RPA highway.

How RPA Can Help Companies During the Coronavirus Pandemic

Social distancing requires most of us to now live and work remotely. Here are a few tips to help you maintain mental and emotional health.

Using RPA to Understand, Simplify and Automate Processes

Simplify how you use robotic process automation with the easy-to-remember USA acronym: understand, simplify, automate.

Magic Monday: Prioritizing the Important Things

This Magic Monday, we focus on making time for the most important things over the seemingly urgent things in life.

Improving Business Processes to Make Way for Robotic Process Automation

Improving processes for business before introducing Robotic Process Automation prevents doing work poorly, unnecessarily, and redundantly.

Five Things Vendors Won’t Tell You About Robotic Process Automation

Robotic Process Automation may not be the silver bullet vendors would like you to believe, but it is certainly one you want in your holster.