Streamlining processes with automation
One of my examples I always like to share as a
client that I had, it was a very longevity-based company. The next five years, they were expecting
to see about 50 percent of their total IT team retire. That’s fast. Losing people that worked
at your company the whole time you’ve been in existence, and now they’re gonna leave. And
it’s like, even when you think about that, you can honor what they’ve done. You can honor
their careers and all these things. But you have to look at what they’re leaving as, “Are we
really gonna replace all these people one for one? We’re just like, ‘Oh, hey, Jim. Okay, you’re
leaving. Connor, you’re coming here.’” You know, To be able to more critically look at work and
say, “Hey, how much of these things that people are doing are things that we could automate, we
could streamline, we could make it different. We can stop swivel chair, we can get rid of this
system because so-and-so was the only person who really knew how to use it anyway, and it sat on
a personal PC under their desk. That's just one example, but if you really think about what it
takes to even execute one request end to end, it can be incredibly expensive. I can think
of another example with a government agency I worked with where we looked at one process
end to end. We used a lean approach to look at a waste walk to see what they were doing. And
we literally found a million dollars in waste in one government process. And that happens when
people aren’t—it’s not the fault of the people doing it. They just—they’re just doing their work
every single day. So when somebody else sometimes comes in and says, “Hey, let me take a peek.
What you doing there?” And they’re like, “Oh, I’m logging into the system,” or “I’m, I’m
gonna walk this over to so-and-so’s desk.” That is all expensive. So we were able to do
that. And that’s just a couple examples of things that I can think of off hand that really
relate back to the cost of, doing and not doing this type of investment. And companies have to
look at it really holistically to understand it.
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