// AUTOMATION
Automation.
Finding the work worth removing, the work that only looks worth removing and the process that should simply stop rather than be automated.
Automation
The work that isn't worth automating
The shortlist everyone wants is what to automate. The more valuable one is what to leave alone. There are four reliable tests for telling them apart.
9 September 20266 min read
AutomationWhy automation projects stall at eighty per cent
The build works. The pilot went well. Then it sits, nearly finished, for four months. The cause is almost always the same and it isn't technical.
5 August 20265 min read
Custom SoftwareBuy, build or neither
AI made building cheap enough that the old answer stopped being automatic. It also made the third option, changing nothing, easier to overlook.
22 July 20267 min read
Rather have this dealt with than read about it? Automation on this site is AI & Automation.
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