“As emphasized in the critical success factors related to “Management support, vision, governance, and structure” earlier in this section, a leading practice to secure support from management is to provide a high-level estimation of the benefits expected from the transformation. This is often referred to as a “high-level automation assessment” or a “top-down automation assessment”. For example, such an estimation might show that, by leveraging IA, the organization has the potential to increase revenue by 20% while reducing costs by 30% in the coming 18 months.”