“I know we’re losing time, but I don’t know where to start or what’s worth touching.”
Before automating you need to know what you are automating. Half of it is usually unnecessary.
Interviews on the shop floor and in the office to document how work really happens, with its shortcuts and exceptions. A double-entry inventory: every piece of data someone types twice is a breakdown nobody has reported. Prioritisation by impact with hours, cost and error risk on the table, and a twelve-month roadmap. Change management is included, and here it is not a slide: a named owner for every pilot, the tool placed where people already work, and adoption measured in active users rather than deployments.
- −Map of the real process, not the org chart
- −Inventory of double entry and rework
- −Prioritisation by impact and 12-month roadmap
- −Change management and adoption measurement