Founder-led training programme
Digital Systems & Automation Training for Teams
Redesign manual workflows without losing accountability, data quality, secure access or essential human judgement.
Give teams a controlled way to map workflow friction, select credible automation opportunities and organise implementation work around evidence, exceptions and adoption.
Duration: 1 day intensive or 3 half-day private team programme.
An intensive day or staged half-day sessions, confirmed in the written scope.
Format: Private Online · Private On-Site.
Map, score, redesign and prioritise one realistic workflow.
Level: beginner.
A prioritised digital workflow and implementation backlog.
Overview
What this programme covers
Map how work moves now, identify where digital change is justified and define a target workflow with visible controls and ownership.
Automation becomes risky when a team begins with a tool rather than the work. A manual handoff may conceal an approval, a spreadsheet may compensate for poor source data, and an apparently repetitive task may contain exceptions that still require judgement. This programme helps teams examine those realities before designing a digital workflow. Participants map a live or anonymised process, locate delay and duplication, score candidate opportunities, and define a target state with clear inputs, owners, access, exceptions and human decision points. They then build a prioritised implementation backlog that separates discovery, design, testing, adoption and review work. The programme develops workflow and governance judgement rather than coding proficiency. It does not select or implement software for the organisation, guarantee time or cost savings, or replace information-security, privacy and change-approval processes.
Evidence standard
Evidence and learning boundaries
Participants show applied learning through an accurate current-state map, defensible opportunity scoring, clearly retained controls and a sequenced implementation backlog. Presence at the session is insufficient evidence of adoption; saving levels, deployment timing and technical performance remain subject to organisational decisions and testing.
Learning outcomes
What participants will learn
Participants should leave able to prioritise digital opportunities, challenge automation risk and sequence an implementation backlog responsibly.
Map a current workflow from trigger to completion, showing people, systems, data, decisions, handoffs, delays and recurring exceptions.
Distinguish genuine automation opportunities from problems caused by unclear ownership, unstable processes or poor-quality source data.
Score candidate changes against repetition, rules, data readiness, exception complexity, control risk and adoption effort.
Design a target-state workflow that preserves accountable ownership, appropriate access, exception handling and necessary human judgement.
Build a prioritised digital workflow and implementation backlog with dependencies, tests, owners and review controls.
Programme structure
Programme modules
Four stages cover workflow truth, opportunity scoring, target-state design and the controls needed for adoption and exception handling.
Map how the work really moves
Participants follow a live or anonymised process from its trigger to a completed outcome, recording systems, people, data, decisions and handoffs. They distinguish the documented route from workarounds and identify where delay, duplication or rekeying appears. The map also captures exceptions that a simple happy-path diagram would otherwise conceal.
Choose what deserves automation
The cohort scores candidate changes using repetition, rule stability, data readiness, exception complexity, control exposure and adoption effort. Participants test whether a digital intervention addresses the cause or merely accelerates a weak process. Opportunities are prioritised with reasons, and attractive ideas can be held back when prerequisites are missing.
Design the controlled target state
Participants redesign the selected workflow around clear inputs, ownership, permissions, decision points and exception routes. They decide where human review remains necessary, what evidence a completed step should leave and how data quality will be checked. The target state is described without assuming a particular vendor or software purchase.
Build the implementation backlog
The final module turns the target design into sequenced work covering discovery, configuration or development, testing, access, documentation, adoption and review. Participants identify dependencies and owners, define useful test cases and record unresolved risks. The backlog supports a controlled next decision rather than pretending that workshop output is a deployed system.
Audience
Who this is for
Best suited to cross-functional teams that understand a live process and can involve the people responsible for data, decisions and delivery.
Operational teams adopting digital tools or reviewing repetitive workflows and manual handoffs.
Process owners accountable for data quality, exceptions, approvals and the outcome of proposed automation.
Digital, data and technology colleagues working with business teams to shape controlled workflow change.
Sponsors prepared to prioritise prerequisites, adoption work and governance alongside technical delivery.
Fit check
Pause before booking when
People seeking software-product certification, advanced programming tuition or implementation support for a named platform.
Teams expecting guaranteed savings, immediate deployment or an automated process without discovery, testing and accountable ownership.
Organisations unable to examine a realistic workflow or involve the people who understand its exceptions and control requirements.
Delivery and pricing
Choose the route that fits the cohort
Private scoping aligns the workshop with the workflow, systems landscape, cohort roles, information boundaries and change readiness.
Delivery
Private online workflow lab
Where online delivery is agreed, one organisational cohort maps and redesigns a suitable workflow using shared materials. The proposal confirms platform, timings, roles, accessibility and boundaries for system screenshots, data or confidential process information.
Delivery
On-site process workshop
Where on-site work is agreed, process owners and relevant digital colleagues can examine handoffs, controls and adoption needs together. Venue, cohort size, workshop access and any restricted system or operational information are confirmed before delivery.
Delivery
Workflow preparation
The sponsor selects a process with a clear trigger and outcome, identifies the people who understand its exceptions and states the technology or data restrictions participants must respect. Preparation does not require production credentials or personal data.
Delivery
Backlog review
Where follow-through is included in scope, the team reviews prerequisites, test evidence, control decisions, ownership and adoption learning before reprioritising the backlog. The review supports governance and capability; it is not software implementation or technical assurance.
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Public Online
Private online pricing reflects the selected workflow, participating roles, systems landscape and written adaptation requirements.
£2,800 to £3,800 / £4,800 to £6,500
Private Tutor-Led
Private on-site delivery additionally confirms location, facilities, participant access requirements and the workflow preparation agreed before arrival.
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On-Demand
No public or on-demand offer is assumed; every included resource and support boundary must be stated before purchase.
Founder-led delivery
Tobi Akiode
Founder-led facilitation focused on workflow clarity, proportionate automation choices and accountable digital change.
Tobi Akiode personally leads Digital Systems & Automation Training for Teams, connecting workflow design with operational ownership, data considerations, implementation decisions and proportionate control. The participating team remains responsible for its technology standards, security and privacy requirements, system selection, technical assurance and approval of any change taken forward.
Founder-led discovery identifies the process, cohort and intended learning artefact before delivery is designed. The proposal separates facilitation from technology selection and implementation, then assigns the duties retained by process owners, technical teams and organisational governance.
Questions
What buyers usually ask before booking
Clarify whether software is implemented, the workflow outputs, preparation, security boundaries and how private delivery is commissioned.
Do participants need technical or programming experience?
Programming knowledge is unnecessary because the learning centres on process discovery, opportunity judgement and responsible change. Participants should understand the selected workflow well enough to describe decisions, transfers, information needs and unusual cases. Teams requiring coding instruction, platform accreditation or product configuration need a separate technical engagement.
Will the programme recommend a particular automation platform?
Platform choice remains with your organisation. Workshop discussion begins with operational requirements, information readiness, safeguards and adoption implications, rather than promoting a vendor. Existing tools may inform examples, but procurement, security assessment, architecture approval and technical validation continue through your own authorised decision routes. The final recommendation belongs to your authorised technology stakeholders.
Which workflow should the team bring?
Bring a contained process with an identifiable starting event, useful result and recurring friction. Include colleagues who know routine steps and exceptions. Examples may be anonymised. Workflows carrying unresolved legal duties, cyber exposure or sensitive personal information should receive appropriate specialist review before entering a general learning environment.
What will the team produce during the programme?
Your cohort creates a present-state workflow map, ranked automation opportunities, a controlled future-state design and an action backlog. Those workshop artefacts guide further investigation; they do not constitute deployed software. Technical design, testing, assurance and organisational authorisation remain necessary before any operational release. Your named owners decide whether to progress them.
How are scope, delivery and commercial terms confirmed?
Discovery establishes the workflow, participating roles, learning format, venue or platform, accessibility needs and follow-through requested. Your proposal then lists the dates offered, applicable fees, included resources and dependencies. A delivery slot becomes reserved only after acceptance through the stated commercial process. Questions may be resolved before acceptance.
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