Automation: definition and business example
Setting up work to happen without someone remembering to do it, usually by connecting a trigger to an action.
Setting up work to happen without someone remembering to do it, usually by connecting a trigger to an action.
When an order is marked paid, the delivery note is created and the customer receives a confirmation — no one retypes the details.
In practice
Automation pays where a task is frequent, identical and low-judgement. Applied to an undocumented process, it simply produces mistakes faster, so the written procedure comes first.
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