Crowdsourced request for slow, manual business processes worth automating
A poster asks other business and IT professionals to share recurring, unnecessarily manual or slow internal processes, citing IT helpdesk request handling as one example. This is a discussion prompt soliciting pain points rather than a specific validated problem.
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