The Realization Gap
The savings your automation program reported are probably not the savings your CFO saw. Where the difference goes, every time, and the boring fix.
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Observations from inside automation programs
Short, specific, and written by someone who was in the room. New notes are published on LinkedIn first.
The largest saving in one program cost nothing to build
A forty-page month-end pack that nobody read. Why "automate" comes last in the order: stop, simplify, automate.
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Most roadmaps are sorted by the wrong axis. One rule that reorders almost every list, and why the boring item usually wins.
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Know your team’s Manual Load before anyone pitches you anything.
Five minutes with the estimator gives you a defensible first number.