7 signs your business is wasting time on manual work

1. One person sits on a spreadsheet no one else understands

When a task hangs on one spreadsheet and one person, it is both fragile and manual. If that person is off sick, the whole thing stops. It is a classic, and thankfully one of the easiest to fix.

2. You type the same thing in several places

If you write the same information by hand into two or three systems, you do the job several times, and mistakes creep in. This is exactly what computers are good at.

3. A report takes hours to build

If someone spends half a day a week pulling numbers to paste into a report, it is one of the very easiest things to automate away. You can get that half-day straight back.

4. Things slip when it gets hectic

Tasks that get forgotten or rushed when you are busy are often tasks that should run on their own. A machine does not get stressed by a hectic week.

5. New hires take weeks to learn "how we do it"

A lot of knowledge that only lives in one person's head is a sign that the processes are neither written down nor automated. It leaves you exposed the day someone leaves.

6. The whole process waits on one small step

If a whole process stops because one person has to press a button or forward an email, that is an obvious place to automate. The person is rarely the bottleneck. It is that small step.

7. You are not quite sure where the time goes

If you struggle to say where the team really spends its hours, that is a sign in itself. And it is exactly what you get first from a survey: a clear picture of where the time, and the money, goes.

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