Six good places to start

Production, stock or staffing decisions rely on a spreadsheet and experience.

OUTCOME

A four-week estimate for each product group, in the planning tool.

TEST

Backtest against the current forecast over the same historical periods.

People re-read the same documents for the same fields, clauses or risks.

OUTCOME

Extracted fields with the source passage beside each result, uncertain cases to review.

TEST

Accuracy on a held-out set, with a review rate agreed in advance.

Problems in a machine, process or transaction appear only after the damage has started.

OUTCOME

An alert on unusual behaviour, in the channel the team already watches.

TEST

How many real incidents it catches in time and how many false alerts it raises.

Answers exist in internal documents but nobody can find them quickly.

OUTCOME

A search tool that respects existing access rights and shows the source.

TEST

A fixed question set scored on correctness, plus permission-boundary checks.

Planners weigh too many options and constraints by hand.

OUTCOME

Practical alternatives that stay within capacity, timing and business rules.

TEST

Comparison with the current plan on cost, service level and feasibility.

A model produces a result, but someone still moves it between systems by hand.

OUTCOME

A workflow that sends data and results to the right system, approval where needed.

TEST

End-to-end tests, including logging, retries and human approval where required.