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Understanding data and workflow

Understanding data and workflow

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Understanding data and workflow

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- [Presenter] Every organization is different. And then interestingly enough, the same. There is the way that the work flows through the organization and the data that's captured around that flow. Before I was an entrepreneur, when I was building up my industry experience and skills, I worked in a highly regulated industry and it was intense. And my first two weeks of work, I did nothing but read policy and procedure manuals, full of workflow diagrams. It was an amazing experience because it changed the way I looked at every process and it forced me to diagram out how the workflows in every place I would eventually go. In every situation I always ask, is there a policy around this process? And do you have any procedural documentation? And do you happen to have a workflow? You may find that the procedure either does not exist in writing or it's in bits and pieces. No matter whether they have a workflow diagram or not, I always start my own diagram so I can intelligently figure out…

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