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 as applicable to the small business.

The mainstay of systemising your business is documentation; documenting, from beginning to end, every process your business employs. Have you documented all the actions that you accomplish in running your business on a daily basis?

From experience, the average business owner does not enjoy writing documents—unless it is part of their business; as it is mine. I have heard of business owners who have claimed that that their business really is systemised- it’s just that the systems are all in their head. Sorry guys—and you may not like this—but that doesn’t count!

Take that first step today; spend a few days paying particular attention to the activities that you perform and record everything that you do in a notebook or journal. Now that you have recorded your actions, organise and order them into groups (for example: accounting, client processes, product creation, answering e?mails, etc).

Now we come to the crunch—put it all down on paper.

Don’t want, or have the time, to turn that data into information that can, and should, be used. Then outsource it to a documentation expert.

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