Automate a business
Automate the work that earned it.
Automation is not a goal. It is what you do to a process you have already decided is worth keeping, once you have removed the steps that were only there out of habit.
Somebody spends every Monday turning one report into another report. Somebody else re-types the same job details into a second system. Neither of them can stop.
Where should a business start with automation?
Start with work that is high frequency, low judgment and currently done by a person who dislikes it — and simplify the process before automating it, because automating an unnecessary step makes it permanent. The most common first candidates are duplicate data entry between systems, follow-up that depends on someone remembering, and reports assembled by hand each week.
What is usually actually wrong
- Two systems do not talk, so a person is the integration.
- Follow-up depends on someone remembering, which means it happens when they are not busy.
- Reports are assembled by hand because no single system holds the whole picture.
- Approvals exist that nobody can justify, and each one adds a wait.
How we approach it
- 01Follow the process with the people who do it, through the systems they actually use.
- 02Remove first. Automating a step you could have deleted is the most common waste in this work.
- 03Automate what survives, with an exception path and monitoring.
- 04Measure against the time it was supposed to give back.
What changes
Duplicate entry removed rather than made faster.
Follow-up that happens whether or not anyone remembers.
Reporting produced automatically.
Questions
The ones that come up every time.
What is the difference between automation and AI?
Automation follows rules you define. AI handles work where the rules cannot be fully written down — language, judgment, ambiguity. Most business problems are the first kind, and treating them as the second is expensive.
How do we know what to automate first?
Ask the people doing the work which part of their week they resent. They know, and they are almost always right.
What if our process changes often?
Then stabilize it before automating it, or you will spend the savings maintaining the automation.
What this involves
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