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Agentic Work Redesign Sprint

Diagnose: Map Your Agentic Work Landscape

Identify where agentic delegation can unlock value in your team's real work. Create a before-and-after Agentic Work Map to reveal manual, bottleneck, and agent-ready processes. Set a strong foundation for role design and pilot experiments.

Why this matters in the workflow

Agentic work is not smarter chat. The work unit shifts from answers-in-turn to outcomes-on-deadline. If you map work the old way, agents fit nowhere. If you map it the new way, opportunities appear. You see parallel potential, review traps, and the hidden human steps that trip agents up. OpenAI's data shows the work moving from single chat turns to longer delegated tasks. The map makes that shift concrete.

The working model

You need an Agentic Work Map. It is not a process map or a RACI chart. It is a before-and-after, showing: - The real steps in one workstream (choose something cross-functional, long-horizon - think: onboarding, product launch, research review). - Where today's process is manual, human-bottlenecked, or fragmented by chat. - Where agentic delegation actually fits: tasks that can be fully described, handed off, reviewed for outcome, and run in parallel. - Potential gaps and verification points.

Do this next

Pick one real workflow, fill in the Agentic Work Map, and review with a partner - see where agents can take ownership and where review is essential.

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