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Pain points in business: what people struggle with
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Slow Multi-Step Approvals
Routine requests stall for days or weeks because they must pass through multiple busy approvers across disconnected tools.
In their words
they basically said management can take days to approve stuff, and they needed it sooner
the workflow is working, but the logic has become too complex. It is causing slow processing, delayed approvals, and sometimes incorrect routing.
Some of our sites are seeing a 300% increase in ticket volume because of how we are playing wackamole with threatlocker approval requests
Since there is no API to automate this, we will have to wait for users to install a new version, then be blocked until we check the audit logs to pre-approve the new installer.
when something stops production people usually buy fast instead of following one process
30 minutes. It would have taken 30 minutes to sit down with me to cover all the things we need to make this work smoothly.
They do this four to five times a day... it is just pure risk-aversion masquerading as diligence.
Wie es sich anfühlt das vierte Mal am Tag bei der IT anzurufen
The final product which touched about 20 hands put in the exact same meaning as my original draft which was done in 2 hours. Instead it took 2 weeks.
Every new drafter on the team went through the same hazing of getting their drafts ripped up for weeks until they figured out the unwritten rules.
they require me to print out a screenshot, which they manually sign, then I have to scan it and save it to the system
Someone always wants another cost-benefit analysis, a stakeholder meeting, a risk assessment, interdepartmental consultation, a legal analysis, and a program design flowchart.
marketing purchased something like 15 new domains on Godaddy and both me and the Web developers that built the new site found it the new product will live on those domains and launches today
Employees, managers, finance teams
Where they talk
- r/sysadmin
- r/CanadaPublicServants
- r/smallbusiness
- r/Accounting
- r/sales
- r/servicenow
- r/PropertyManagement
- r/iiiiiiitttttttttttt
Tools they use today
- Slack
- Excel
- Salesforce
- ServiceNow
- Workday
- Google Drive
- Jira
- Microsoft Teams
Why those fall short
- No way to track, batch or make visible the volume of approval requests
- approval chains are slow and policies ignore staff time cost
- approvals gridlock when the single manager is busy; no reminders or deadlines
- bosses too dumb or lazy to use the system
- approval layers reject work and force redo
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