manumation

English

Etymology

Blend of manual +‎ automation

Noun

manumation (uncountable)

(business, nonstandard) Applying technology to automate a business process that produces the same results as the manual process before automation.
- 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benchmarks (best practice, best-of-class indicators) companies can fall victim to manumation, simply automating old, outdated processes.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 Albany: Unpublished draft, 1998.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.
- 2006, C. Cristian Wulf, CFO Insights: Enabling High Performance Through Leading Practices for Finance ERP, John Wiley and Sons, page v:
  When asked about the biggest risk the organization faced with this effort, the CFO replied “Manumation. Automation of our existing manual processes. . . .”

References

1998, L. Mohan and W. K. Holstein, Decision support systems: An applications per-spective, unpublished draft, Albany