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Chapter 6 · Group 2: Redesign the Work

Eliminate, simplify, and standardize before you automate.

Assess a business process using the ESSIA framework — Eliminate, Simplify, Standardize, Integrate, Automate — and find the earliest unresolved stage.

Find out whether a process is ready for AI-enabled automation, or needs simplification first. This tool applies the framework from Chapter 6 of The Enterprise AI Blueprint by W. Perry Underdown and returns a directional, structured read — not an audit finding.

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Approximately 12 minutes · Results saved to your workspace · Free to start

The survey prevents teams from

  • Automating waste that should be eliminated
  • Encoding complexity that should be simplified
  • Scaling variation that should be standardized
  • Bridging systems that should be integrated
  • Skipping directly to automation

Output: A process-readiness ladder and prioritized redesign checklist.

What the assessment covers

  1. Section 1

    Process Being Assessed

  2. Section 2

    Eliminate

  3. Section 3

    Simplify

  4. Section 4

    Standardize

  5. Section 5

    Integrate

  6. Section 6

    Automate

  7. Section 7

    12-Step Redesign Methodology

    Which of these steps have you already completed for this process?

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Choose the appropriate autonomy level, then build requirements across 12 categories including business, process, functional, AI behavior, data, integrations, security, human oversight, evaluation, and operations.

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Your answers, scores, and reports stay in one workspace so you and your team can track progress across all 16 tools.

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