Delivering General Automation Partner with business stakeholders After defining your technical requirements, the next critical step is to seek out and partner with your business stakeholders during the evaluation phase of the buying process. A major benefit of General Automation Platforms is that technical and non-technical business users can now build collaboratively on the same platform. As you start to think through the evaluation and implementation phases of the investment, it is critical that you bring your business stakeholders together in this buying cycle. Application leaders responsible for integration can empower frontline colleagues with DIY capabilities that encourage [5] innovation while minimizing risk.” In fact, Gartner advises that IT partners with line-of-business to both reduce risk in your organization and add strategic value to the enterprise. “Application leaders responsible for integration can empower frontline colleagues with DIY capabilities that encourage innovation while minimizing risk.”[5] IT’s mantra for automation deployments: Think big. Start small. Scale fast. As IT leaders utilize General Automation to deliver digital transformation, this phrase “Think big. Start small. Scale fast” is a best practice for the entire project. Let us dive into what each of these elements mean in practice to ensure successful implementation. Think big. Automation has the potential to truly transform the entire enterprise. However, enterprise wide automation often requires a broader strategy to successfully implement. Before you start to define milestones, you should work with business stakeholders and management to define the broad goals of automation across the enterprise.