Are you ready to unlock the full potential of automation? Here are 10 Golden Rules for Automation Success – *From Forrester, with some minor tweaks from me…

1️⃣ Weave automation into your company’s digital fabric, treating it as an integral part of your broader digital transformation roadmap.
2️⃣ Build a sustainable business value model for automation, identifying the right use cases that align with your strategic goals and deliver measurable benefits.
3️⃣ Treat automation as an enterprise platform, considering its impact on security, scalability, data privacy, and governance right from the start.
4️⃣ Secure your bots with zero trust principles, implementing robust policies and processes to ensure automation access rights, authentication, and monitoring.
5️⃣ Prioritize your processes by analyzing and assessing their suitability for automation, focusing on high-impact tasks that offer significant returns on investment.
6️⃣ Lay early foundations for effective automation management and governance, including process selection, documentation, standardization, and continuous improvement.
7️⃣ Plan for AI, but don’t rush in. Start with manageable AI use cases that extend existing automations, and set clear expectations for accuracy and success rates.
8️⃣ Take an innovative view of automation, leveraging automation to drive innovation, fostering in-house automation skills, and collaborating with co-innovation partners.
9️⃣ Design for humans, considering the role of humans in automation, creating human failsafes, and prioritizing employee experience and well-being.
Foster an automation-first culture by evangelizing the benefits of automation, encouraging experimentation and learning, and providing training and support for employees.
By following these golden rules, you can transform your organization into an automation powerhouse and achieve greater efficiency, productivity, and success.

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