Systematize your business

If you want to find success in your business you really need to systematize the most critical or important areas of the business. The ideal is to have a fully systematized business, all areas, all processes with all people at all levels running and constantly improving the system.

Sounds wonderful right! But how do we do this?

This is easily achieved if the work needed is put into to creating the systems that best suit your type of business.
Some are very generic to specific industries, think McDonalds, KFC, Pizza hut.
The fast food industry would not survive a day without their systems.

McDonalds the business who does this best has a system for every single process involving the business from recruiting, order taking, cooking, cleaning to training, food prep and open and closing. Even thier franchise placement goes through the system.

In small business i believe this type of "Thinking like the big guys" is vital to survive.
It will free up your time and help you manage the business, plan for the future expansion or growth or at the least insure the day to day running goes as smoothly as possible.

For an established business to start with it is sometimes a good idea to find a troublesome area of the business and create a system to support and correct the problems. From this you can move to other areas.

It is not a one man show either. If you include your staff in the process from beginning to end you will often not only find the weakest links in the system and fix them before they evolve but you can then rely on the staff to run the system, work it properly having helped design it and use it every day they can typically see what is needed most and be more objective.
Staff are often the ones training new people also which is especially important in correcting and maintaing the system.

Below is an example of a very easy, basic system for a very common problem. As i said ANYTHING and EVERYTHING can be systematised!

Next post i will show you a simple system anyone could use.