An example would be details of the decision making process for who gets laid off during a downturn. We know something about the hypothetical manager's decision

An example would be details of the decision making process for who gets laid off during a downturn. We know something about the hypothetical manager's decision making process: the typical manager would include the constraint that he should be excluded from the collection of employees to be laid off. An automated improvement on this algorithm would unlock tremendous benefits to principals, and in the case of publicly owned companies, to shareholders.