Develop organizational goals or objectives
Most of the output can be produced by software today.
Producing the draft is the single thing current models are best at, and it needs no integration at all: a prompt and a couple of reference documents are enough. A person still edits it and takes responsibility for what goes out.
| How automatable | Mostly automatable |
|---|---|
| Kind of work | Drafting and content production |
| Jobs that do it | 16 occupations |
| Tool categories that apply | Generalist agents, Builders |
| O*NET activity | Thinking Creatively (4.A.2.b.2) |
What this looks like on the job
Not our paraphrase. These are real task statements recorded against this activity, spread across the 16 occupations that perform it.
- Establish or implement departmental policies, goals, objectives, or procedures in conjunction with board members, organization officials, or staff members.
- Establish goals for soliciting funds, develop policies for collection and safeguarding of contributions, and coordinate disbursement of funds.
- Set goals and deadlines for the department.
- Direct daily operations of department, analyzing workflow, establishing priorities, developing standards and setting deadlines.
- Define performance metrics for measurement, comparison, or evaluation of supply chain factors, such as product cost or quality.
- Establish scientific or technical goals within broad outlines provided by top management.
- Establish objectives and evaluative or operational criteria for units managed.
- Determine scientific or technical goals within broad outlines provided by top management and make detailed plans to accomplish these goals.
- Set marketing, sales, or other financial goals for funeral service establishments and monitor progress toward these goals.
- Establish regulatory priorities or budgets and allocate resources and workloads.
- Establish goals, objectives, or priorities for wind field operations.
- Develop and interpret organizational goals, policies, and procedures.
- Define and analyze objectives, scope, issues, or organizational impact of information systems.
- Determine, or help determine, company policy, and explain complex technical matters to company executives, government officials, shareholders, policyholders, or the public.
- Develop job specifications, job descriptions, or work schedules.
What we would actually use
One recommendation rather than a shortlist, because a shortlist is just your problem handed back. This is what we would buy for drafting and content production, and what it costs.
Drafting needs no tools, no integration and no platform. One $20 assistant and two reference documents beat any agent builder here, and every extra thing in this stack is cost with nothing behind it.
Chosen for the cheapest thing that does the job, not the best funded. Nothing on this site is sponsored, and the full landscape is there when you want to disagree with us.
The rest of the category
Context, not alternatives to weigh up. We name the layer rather than promise a named product does your specific task.
Generalist agents
Matched from the kind of work, not from vendor marketing. Check any of them can reach the system your records actually live in — that connection, not the model, is where these projects stall.
How people actually do it
No workflow names this activity yet, but these automate the same kind of work, with the prompts to paste and what to keep for yourself.
Who does this work
16 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.
- Actuaries
- Administrative Services Managers
- Architectural and Engineering Managers
- Computer and Information Research Scientists
- Computer and Information Systems Managers
- Computer Systems Engineers/Architects
- Dietetic Technicians
- Facilities Managers
- Fundraising Managers
- Funeral Home Managers
- General and Operations Managers
- Medical and Health Services Managers
- Natural Sciences Managers
- Regulatory Affairs Managers
- Supply Chain Managers
- Wind Energy Operations Managers
Work that goes with it
O*NET groups these under “Develop organizational or program goals or objectives”. In practice they tend to be done by the same person, in the same sitting.
| Activity | Jobs |
|---|---|
| Develop plans for programs or services | 6 |
| Develop program goals or plans | 5 |
Method. The activity, its taxonomy placement and the occupations that perform it come straight from the public-domain O*NET 30.3 database. The automatability band is ours: we map each of O*NET’s 41 generalized work activities to how much of its output current software can produce, assuming a person still reviews and owns the result. It is a coarse three-way judgment on purpose. A precise-looking percentage here would be invented.