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Wednesday, November 03, 2021

4 Steps to Uncover Workflows, Procedures, and What Teams Really Need: AutoCAD Process Assessment – Step Four

AutoCAD Blog - Autodesk : Now, we’ve reached our last installment of a four-part series on conducting a process assessment of AutoCAD workflows and procedures. Finally, after bringing structure to a disorganized mountain of information as discussed in Step 3, the final step is to present and communicate what was found. While the meat of such an exercise is undoubtedly the things your organization could do better, it’s equally essential to spotlight what your organization is doing well.

2 comments:

Phoebe Huggett said...

Sticking out most for me in this article was the idea of making it easy for your reader to understand what is going on, what you are trying to communicate and in most scenarios what you need them to be doing with that information. Its one of those things where that prep early in the line ahead of when things really need to be done saves a massive amount of time later when you are sure that you’ve thought through everything before you’ve handed off you stuff. This idea of consciousness in your audience, you company and yourself in what organizational structure works best, and only giving general guidelines vs. hard and fast rules, trusting you to develop your plan in accordance with what is most helpful or important in your situation. I feel like I’ve been seeing these groups of 3 rules pop up in writing a lot, with an observation, then a couple more steps that move into more interpretation and then decision making on how these interact, belong or should be responded to..

DMSunderland said...

Honestly articles like this bewilder me sometimes. I love the idea of presenting at a C level and not knowing how to do a basic presentation.

I do think it's important to not that audience and intention is everything in all aspects of life. Knowing what you want to communicate to your audience and asking yourself how you can communicate that to them is a crucial first step and if you have started on a presentation without asking this then you're going to have a bad time.

I do think that the article laid it out in a way that is easy to absorb and follow for the uninitiated. However, whenever an article such as this pops up I can't help but ask myself, who is this for? Because I feel as though the majority of people that this article is aimed at would already be aware of what is laid out here.