Choose which repetitive operation to automate first.

Instruction: Calculate the net time benefit and select a first project under the stated constraint.

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Fictional weekly work: A takes 12 minutes and occurs 50 times; automation costs 16 hours to build plus one hour of weekly maintenance. B takes 45 minutes and occurs four times; automation costs four hours to build plus half an hour of weekly maintenance. Both are low-risk, stable processes with equivalent quality benefit, and automation removes all manual execution time. The team can invest at most 16 build hours this month and will compare eight weeks of operation after deployment, charging build effort against the time saved in that period.

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A consumes ten manual hours a week and would save nine after maintenance. Across eight weeks, its net saving after the 16-hour build is 56 hours...

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