Starting Up: The Difference Between Business Success and Disaster
The difference between an okay business and a great business often lies in many subtleties. These operational differences could also mean the difference between a successful business and a poorly-run, failing or stagnant business. Though being an entrepreneur or a business owner often comes with long hours and stressful days, it shouldn’t mean that you should constantly wear yourself to the bone trying to make sure all the cigs in your wheel are running!
The key? Systemisation.
Systemisation is a convenient tool that works effectively toward managing your time, money and energy. And it’s nothing particularly new. We systemise many things in our daily lives. Domestically, many people systemise repetitive tasks like household cleaning, gardening, cooking and so on.
Going on from this, setting up business systems essentially means automating and delegating some of your business processes. You can systemise anything from the smallest, sometimes mundane tasks to the bigger, high-concentration duties.However, systemisation does not simply begin by leaving duties to your employees. A good place to start would be to first define all the roles in your business, which will give you a clear view over everything that needs to be systemised. Depending on your kind of business, systemised tasks could be within the areas of Sales, Administration, Procurement, Marketing, Delivery, etc.
Next, you would want to document these roles noting every single task that is involved in each larger role. Once this is done, the real job of systemisation can start. This, most often will include automating certain tasks and delegating others.
This comes with a great many advantages like ensuring that your business could change managerial hands without dropping the ball. When thorough operational systems are in place, the wheels can still run smoothly even when the business owner or entrepreneur isn’t behind the wheel.
Owning and efficiently running a business can be back breaking work, but when effective structures are set up and followed, it takes a huge load off and promises that when you have taken the time off to kick your feet up, you’ll return to a business well-oiled and running as well as you left it.