The most common mistake is starting with the hardest work. Pick a first task with clear impact and results a person can easily check.
Criteria
- Repeated the same way often
- Reading documents and re-entering values
- Checking several sites or systems
- Easy for a person to verify
- A named owner for exceptions
Running today
- Court documents to litigation deadlines
- Drawing dimensions into inspection reports
- Tender notices into a spreadsheet
- Client-by-client Hometax filing
- Shipping status and instructions via messenger