As a first order of business, a sufficiently advanced AGI would recommend that we stop restructuring and changing to a new ERP every time an acquisition is made or the CFO changes, and to stop allowing everyone to have their own version of the truth in excel.
As long as we have complex manual processes that even the people following them can barely remember the reason why they exist, we will never be able to get AI to smooth it over. It is horrendously difficult for real people to figure out what to put in a TPS report. The systems that you refer to need to be engineered out or organisations first. You don't need AI for that, but getting rid of millions of excel files is needed before AI can work.
I dont know that getting rid of those wacky Excel sheets is a prerequisite to having AI work. We already have people like Automation Anywhere watching people hand carve their TPS reports so that they can be recreated mechanistically. Its a short step from feeding the steps to a task runner to feeding them to the AI agent.
Paradigm shifts in the technology do not generally occur simultaneously with changes in how we organize the work to be done. It takes a few years before the new paradigm backs into the workflow and changes it. Lift and shift was the path for several years before cloud native became a thing, for example. People used iPhone to call taxi companies, etc.
It would be a shame to not take the opportunity to tear down some old processes, but, equally, sometimes Chesterton's fence is there for good reason.
As long as we have complex manual processes that even the people following them can barely remember the reason why they exist, we will never be able to get AI to smooth it over. It is horrendously difficult for real people to figure out what to put in a TPS report. The systems that you refer to need to be engineered out or organisations first. You don't need AI for that, but getting rid of millions of excel files is needed before AI can work.