Aligning Business – Processes – People

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This is a scene at most of the businesses where the Business goals very rarely affect the day to day processes that run the organisation or any changes in the process realign the goals to new scenario.  People are usually left on their own to figure their way out of this situation. Here Business planing is considered as an annual activity and once done is set in stone or worse just completely forgotten during the rest of the year only to review again at the end of the year. You know you are one of them if you look back at last year and blame each other or somebody or something  for not reaching your targets.

For a business to achieve its goals and be successful it needs to agile and continuously in sync with changing environments within and outside the organisation.

To achieve this agility we need to have a system which aligns our People to Processes, which in turn are aligned to our Business goals on Day to Day basis. It works both ways as everything works in sync like gears where change in one gears rotation or speed will proportionally change the others.

Visually this looks very simple but practically implementing this is a challenging but I believe is not impossible. Especially if you already have tools to standardize processes (Task Standard Work) and People ( Leader Standard Work ).

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Geting outside Help For Small Business

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Many of the small businesses out there must be facing tough time in this economy to survive. The last thing on their mind is training their people to do better job or that matter consult from outside entity. Actually there is a solution to this and I would like to  share with you. There are several organization which are completely or partially funded by the federal government which provide services for free or  at subsidized rates. Here are links to a few:

SBDC For Enterprise Excellence Contact: Tom Pryor

Cross Timbers

TMAC

SBDC organizes  many free training courses for small business which could helpful to owners as well as managers. You can look at their event calender to register for an upcoming event. Another resource on the web for small businesses is the  SBA website.

Even though the times are tough, the help is out there it is up to us to seek for it and make best use of it.

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