Implement organizational process or policy changes
Little of this can be handed to software today.
Software can assemble the case and recommend an answer, and that is genuinely useful. The decision stays with a person because someone has to be accountable for it. Treating the recommendation as the decision is how automation projects fail.
| How automatable | Barely automatable |
|---|---|
| Kind of work | Judgment, authorisation and strategy |
| Jobs that do it | 29 occupations |
| Tool categories that apply | Generalist agents, Models and routing |
| O*NET activity | Making Decisions and Solving Problems (4.A.2.b.1) |
What this looks like on the job
Not our paraphrase. These are real task statements recorded against this activity, spread across the 29 occupations that perform it.
- Direct, plan, or implement policies, objectives, or activities of organizations or businesses to ensure continuing operations, to maximize returns on investments, or to increase productivity.
- Develop or execute strategies to address issues such as energy use, resource conservation, recycling, pollution reduction, waste elimination, transportation, education, and building design.
- Establish or implement departmental policies, goals, objectives, or procedures in conjunction with board members, organization officials, or staff members.
- Make decisions that balance the perspectives of private citizens, public officials, and party leaders.
- Plan and execute advertising policies and strategies for organizations.
- Create or implement security standards, policies, and procedures.
- Develop, implement, or monitor security valuation policies.
- Develop or implement production tracking or quality control systems, analyzing production, quality control, maintenance, or other operational reports to detect production problems.
- Create and implement inspection and testing criteria or procedures.
- Select and implement corrosion control or mitigation systems for geothermal plants.
- Develop or implement policy evaluation procedures for hydroelectric generation activities.
- Develop and implement purchasing and contract management instructions, policies, and procedures.
- Plan, develop, or implement warehouse safety and security programs and activities.
- Develop or implement procedures or systems to evaluate or select suppliers.
- Develop or implement environmental protection programs.
- Develop or implement programs to improve sustainability or reduce the environmental impacts of engineering or architecture activities or operations.
- Develop and implement policies and procedures for the operation of a department or establishment.
- Develop and implement organizational policies and procedures for the facility or medical unit.
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 judgment, authorisation and strategy, and what it costs.
There is nothing here worth buying beyond a good assistant. Software assembles the case and recommends an answer, which any $20 assistant already does; the decision is yours, and no product on this page changes that.
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
29 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.
- Advertising and Promotions Managers
- Architectural and Engineering Managers
- Brownfield Redevelopment Specialists and Site Managers
- Chief Executives
- Chief Sustainability Officers
- Compliance Managers
- Compliance Officers
- Construction Managers
- Emergency Management Directors
- Fitness and Wellness Coordinators
- Funeral Home Managers
- General and Operations Managers
- Geothermal Production Managers
- Hydroelectric Production Managers
- Industrial Production Managers
- Industrial-Organizational Psychologists
- Investment Fund Managers
- Legislators
- Lodging Managers
- Medical and Health Services Managers
- Natural Sciences Managers
- Purchasing Managers
- Quality Control Systems Managers
- Regulatory Affairs Managers
- Security Management Specialists
- Security Managers
- Supply Chain Managers
- Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers
- Water Resource Specialists
Work that goes with it
O*NET groups these under “Implement procedures or processes”. In practice they tend to be done by the same person, in the same sitting.
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.