This morning my daughter told me about a dream she had last night. She was a unicorn learning to fly – yes, apparently there are unicorns that fly. 🙂 Now the dream ended in the classic nightmare, falling and waking up covered in sweat. My immediate response was, “Well, if you are a unicorn that […]
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Sir Richard Branson is famously quoted for saying: “Clients do not come first. Employees come first. If you take care of your employees, they will take care of the clients.” I am certainly not going to argue with that. Yet, when it comes to systemisation, there is a common misconception that implementing systems is somehow
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Have you ever created a business plan and realised they were a waste of time? Or to put it in the words of Steve Blank: “… no business plan survives first contact with customers.” Now the problem I see with business plans is that they are usually a snapshot of what you want to
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Let’s face it “Saving Time” is a concept that doesn’t work. Did you ever wonder at the end of the day where all the time went? Did you notice that someone who spent all day on the couch might be asking that same question, as does the busy manager who hurried from one meeting to
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Do you know the difference between Innovation Accounting and Innovative Accounting? Hint: Knowing the difference could keep you out of jail. Seriously, if you want to learn how that knowledge could make all the difference for a start-up business or any disruptive business, you might want to watch this video. I would love to learn
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So when is the best time to start putting business systems in place? It is clear that when you are at a stage of business development where you got some traction in the market but desperately need to grow, doing nothing will aggravate your situation of lack – lack of time, manpower, or money. Or
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Have you started to document your business processes, yet? How much thought have you put into the location where to store your systems? The intuitive approach for many is to start on a hard drive of a local server – somewhere in the file system, perhaps having a spreadsheet or database to help to index.
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One of the decisions you’ll have to take when you tackle the task of documenting your business systems is about where to actually store your systems documents. Now there are quite a few choices out there, but more on that in another post, perhaps. It is kind of obvious that this is a fundamental decision.
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I stumbled over a mindboggling fact the other day. I read a quote from a report surveying 10,500 office workers in 11 countries, saying that one quarter of their annual work time was spent doing repetitive tasks in the office like manually inputting data, managing e-mail, and filing documents. Now think about that for a
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Meet Susan. I met her at a founder’s summit last month. She describes herself as a fitness instructor – but after talking to her for a few minutes, I realised she is so much more. As so many fitness instructors, she worked in a gym – eight-hour shifts to give advice and special courses to
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