Searching for automation opportunities
Value assurance has never been more important, as organizations are laser-focused on creating immediate benefits from automation initiatives. Therefore, careful consideration should be made when identifying, sizing, and green-lighting automation candidates during the opportunity search. To ensure that the chosen opportunities are successful and realize the benefits advertised, you should be well versed in the characteristics of an automation opportunity, understand when to apply cognitive capabilities, and understand how to recognize the drivers of value automation can create. Once fully versed in the characteristics of an automation opportunity, you can take different approaches to identify an opportunity from a top-down or bottom-up perspective, and then apply your judgment to prioritize the opportunity for further analysis and development.
In this section, we're going to cover the following topics:
- The characteristics of an...