There are many ways to build a Process Mining initiative into an organization. However, to many Process Mining itself looks pretty simple, with people being easily fascinated without truly interrogating the wider business value of the initiative and the support needed to see success.

When trying to communicate the value and hand over use cases to business, quite often there is a lack of true understanding of both the value and complexity of the initiative. All too often, Process Mining is seen as IT-service, overlooking its broader potential. However, it's no secret that strong top management support is a key enabler to getting these kinds of initiatives flying. So, what do executives need to do to set themselves up for process mining success?

• Apply process mining as a powerful method and tool, providing transparent and actionable insights that can help organisation to drive efficiency and value
• Sell the strategy and share the target picture for Process Mining whenever possible
• Drive effective initiatives with fast realisation by ensuring sufficient IT resources and fast availability of data, permissions and connections
• Leverage advanced data technology to understand how processes are currently performing and how they can be further optimized
• Avoid having initiatives silently die in your organisation before they have the chance to prove value by realising the role of change management and promoting the vision in IT and Leadership Teams across all Business Units, regions and sites whenever possible
• Have regular governance in place to make progress transparent