In a company with limited funding, upper management believes in the sequential strategy of Understand, Simplify, and Automate for improving business processes, but would rather stop current CIM projects after Simplification step and before Automation. They claim that up to 50% of the saving can be realized for a small fraction of the investment needed to pursue full automation. Answer each of the following questions:

1. What aspects of CIM can the company apply without computers?
2. What benefits will be lost of automation is not carried out?
3. What are the risks involved in proceeding through the steps of understanding, manually simplifying, and planning for automation of business processes with the intention of implementing automated systems when funds are more readily available?
4. What are the risks involved in proceeding through the understanding and manually simplifying steps without considering automation and aspects of CIM?