I'm Brendan Hyland. I help regulated facilities transform their software, spreadsheets, workflows and documents from time-consuming, deviation-invoking, regulatory burdens, to the competitive advantage they were meant to be. Join me every weekday as we take a few minutes to explore, design, test and improve the critical systems we use in our facilities.
Behold: The low-hanging fruit!
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We are in the middle of our "Let's Automate" series to see if we can make some simple automation improvements to our own day-to-day tasks. Hopefully this process will give us some insights that we can bring to designing, validating or auditing our regulated processes. Today, let's review what we have so far. I'm going to call this "Version 1" since it's actually quite workable as it is. Here it is in a diagram:
Notice how much time and effort we've saved just addressing these low-hanging fruit, and we haven't even mentioned AI, Large-Language Models or the Blockchain! We've also mostly used software and tools that are already available to us, though I've opted to go with a more featureful text expander software than would be otherwise available. ConvertKit is specialized to email newsletters, but otherwise its publishing workflow is nothing special and easily duplicated with a Chrome extension or Word plugin. I've marked a red x on the parts of the workflow that are still largely manual, and of course writing the blog post and coming up with examples is still all me. So what more can we do? Until next time, thanks for reading! – Brendan p.s. Enjoy this message? Read more at the Hyland Quality Systems website. |
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I'm Brendan Hyland. I help regulated facilities transform their software, spreadsheets, workflows and documents from time-consuming, deviation-invoking, regulatory burdens, to the competitive advantage they were meant to be. Join me every weekday as we take a few minutes to explore, design, test and improve the critical systems we use in our facilities.
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