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The 70% Problem: Why Process Mining Misses Most of Your Business

ByVarad Chaudhari

Enterprises have spent millions on process mining, task mining, and quarterly audits. And yet, leaders still can't answer the simplest question:

"What's really happening in our business right now?"

The 70% Problem

Process mining tools only capture what's logged inside structured systems like ERPs or CRMs. But in every enterprise, the majority of execution lives outside of those systems:

  • Ad-hoc work in spreadsheets and emails
  • Strategic project-based work that is not linear processes
  • Exceptions handled manually
  • Legacy apps with no modern logs

That invisible 70% is where bottlenecks, errors, and opportunities lie. It is where performance is often won or lost.

Why Process Mining Falls Short

  • Narrow scope: ERP logs ≠ end-to-end execution
  • Slow setup: IT integrations take 6-12 months
  • Static output: Snapshots and models that go stale
  • Lagging insight: Failures show up weeks or months later

Useful? Sometimes. Complete? Never.

Work Visibility: The Next Layer

Work Visibility is the core principle of Adaptive Work Intelligence (AWI). Instead of mining system logs, AWI continuously observes how work actually flows across all tools and teams, whether that is structured process or ad-hoc tasks.

It's like moving from traffic reports once a quarter to a real-time map of every road, every driver, and every jam.

What Changes with Visibility

  • Universal visibility: Capture flows across ERP, CRM, spreadsheets, browsers, email, chat, and anything.
  • Time-to-value: Deploy in hours, not months.
  • Continuous insight: Always current, never stale.
  • KPI connection: Execution tied directly to outcomes—speed, cost, quality, risk, revenue, anything.

Comparative View

Traditional (Mining & Audits)

  • System logs only
  • Months of integration
  • Snapshots and lag
  • Blind to ad-hoc work

Adaptive Work Intelligence (Observability)

  • All systems + ad-hoc tasks
  • Deploy in minutes
  • Live, continuous view
  • Connects to KPIs

The Bigger Shift

Mining told us what happened yesterday.

Visibility shows us what's happening now.

With Adaptive Work Intelligence, enterprises don't just model processes, they see all execution, in real time, across every function of your org.

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