Extreme Automation

by Feb 1, 2023

I see some people take automation to the extreme.

I am one of those people. I’m so into automating business processes. Heck I even named my company after it: AutomateValue!

One of the dangers of doing automation to the extreme, is that you lose sight of ROI.

Don’t spend two days automating something to save a couple of seconds of a process that runs once a week.

Don’t automate stuff that you do once or twice a year.

It’s not worth it.

(Unless you learn from it and can sell the knowledge πŸ˜‰)

is it worth your time
Remy van Duijkeren

Remy van Duijkeren

Power Platform Advisor

Microsoft Power Platform Advisor with over 25 years of experience in IT with a focus on (marketing) automation and integration.

Helping organizations with scaling their business by automating processes on the Power Platform (Dynamics 365).

Expert in Power Platform, Dynamics 365 (Marketing & Sales) and Azure Integration Services. Giving advice and strategy consultancy.

Services:
– Strategy and tactics advise
– Automating and integrating

Subscribe to
The Daily Friction

A daily newsletter on automation and eliminating friction

Related Content

Cancel Culture in IT

Cancel Culture in IT Cancel Culture is happening in major communities to developers and contributors, like: Linux Kernel C++ Standard Committee Python NixOS openSUSE Godot And the reasons? Completely absurd: Being Republican Liking an old SNL sketch Using the word...

read more

VS Code is NOT an IDE.

VS Code is NOT an IDE. And I like it that way. I use VS Code as a fast text editor. Just a couple of bare-bone plugins. No bloat. No unnecessary features. Just speed. I see people turning VS Code into a full-fledged IDE with tons of extensions. At that point… just use...

read more