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At my last company, I inherited a process where customer onboarding was taking 12–14 days, and we were losing roughly 20% of new deals during that window. The first thing I did was map the full workflow end‑to‑end and time each step with a simple spreadsheet and timestamps from our CRM. The data showed two bottlenecks: manual data entry and back‑and‑forth email approvals. I pulled three months of cases, sampled 100 accounts, and interviewed sales reps and the ops team to understand edge cases. Based on that, I introduced a standardized intake form, auto‑population from our CRM, and a simple approval queue in our workflow tool. We piloted it with one region, tracked cycle time and drop‑off for six weeks, and A/B‑compared against the old process. Average onboarding time dropped to 5 days, drop‑off fell from 20% to 8%, and error‑related rework shrank by about 40%.
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