Meaning of manumation | Babel Free

Definitions

Applying technology to automate a business process that produces the same results as the manual process before automation.

nonstandard, uncountable

Examples

“1999, Frank Sklarsky (interviewee), “DaimlerChrysler: Revving the Finance Engine”, Financial Executive One operating tip⟳: "Always move⟳ from manumation to automation," Sklarsky advises. "Any time there's a piece of information, record⟳ it once. Then you can funnel it where it needs to go and let⟳ the computer do the reporting."”

“2003 April, Kalle Kangas, Business Strategies for Information Technology Management, page 179, Idea Group Inc., IRM Press⟳ Indeed, without a firm connection to good external benchmarks (best practice, best-of-class indicators) companies can fall⟳ victim to manumation, simply automating old, outdated processes.”

“2005, Maria A. Wimmer, ed. Electronic Government: 4th International Conference, EGOV 2005, Copenhagen, Denmark, page 5 - citing L. Mohan and W. K. Holstein, Decision support⟳ systems: an applications perspective. Albany: Unpublished draft, 1998. In contrast, the "manumation" of processes through traditional MIS never facilitated such rapid change⟳ in strategy and structure⟳.”

“When asked about the biggest risk⟳ the organization faced with this effort, the CFO replied “Manumation. Automation of our existing manual processes. . . .””

CEFR level