Today — unstructured
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Day 0
A request arrives
An email with attachments — printed, forwarded, then re-typed into the CRM.
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Day 1
The same fields, again
Keyed a second time into the ERP, a third into a tracking spreadsheet.
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Day 3
Documents scatter
The contract sits in a mailbox; the assessment in a drive. Nobody holds all of it.
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Day 8
An exception disappears
A missing form triggers a workaround — handled differently every time.
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Day 11
The customer is still waiting
Status lives in inboxes. No one can say where the request is.
- 11 days
- 6 handoffs
- 3 re-entries
- 1 lost exception
- status: unknown