Q3: Over the next three years, the GREATEST challenge to automation will be:

The swarm felt strongly that organizational resistance to change will be the greatest challenge to automation over the next three years.

• The swarm expressed little doubt in this forecast.  From the outset, the swarm was strongly aligned with organizational resistance to change as the greatest challenge facing enterprise automation initiatives.
• Strong alignment of the swarm is reflected in the high Brainpower score (85 percent).
• A few participants felt strongly that inability to prove ROI and difficulty in finding the right talent would be bigger challenges.