Systemising Your Business – Part 3

How to Start Systemising

Start by producing procedures for your routine business tasks. These procedures are then used as work instructions for completing specific tasks; you don’t have to hand-hold someone to get them to carry them out.

To produce task procedures, the “how to” aspects, ask “How do I?”, then begin at the beginning [...]

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Systemising Your Business – Part 2

When you are systemising your business, and producing procedure manuals have you ever used Process Maps? Have you ever used them to systemise a client’s business?

A survey carried out some time ago produced the estimate that people carrying out administrative functions or providing services spend about 40 to 50 percent of their time dealing [...]

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Why a Business Impact Analysis (BIA)?

Briefly it is to enable you to determine the impacts resulting from possible disasters and interruptions that could affect your business; the risks you have assessed previously.

It would also enable you to ascertain critical processes, their priority in the recovery phase, and anything dependent upon those processes so can set a goal for overall [...]

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Analyze Your Business

The continued availability of your business depends on the business critical processes, their supporting applications and other resources. Formal analysis of these business functions is the essential foundation for Business Continuity Management (BCM). This analysis will provide you with a better understanding of your business and what is critical for its continued operation. [...]

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Systemising Your Business

A Business Fusion workshop I attended last week amplified my belief that many businesses, large and small, do not operate on a system.

E-Myth Revisited is a book which all business owners and managers should treat as a bible. It too lays down a methodology for systemising your business, the basics of which are just [...]

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