the.com/digital workflow
the assembly line that runs on clicks instead of conveyor belts.
means a repeatable sequence of digital steps and tools that moves work from start to finish without manual re-entry.
from born in office automation of the 1990s when paper forms started getting replaced by databases and email approvals, then exploded with cloud software and apis that let one app hand off to the next automatically.
invisible taxmost workflows waste hours on manual copy-paste handoffs
broken chainsone unintegrated app can stall an entire process
automation ironybadly designed automation just moves the bottleneck downstream
for instance
github pull requests — code review, testing, and merge automated across millions of repos daily
zapier automations — connects 7000+ apps without a line of code since 2011
hospital ehr systems — epic software routes patient records across entire care teams