The following is a guest contribution from Wendy Tadokoro, Systemisation Specialist at Organising Works!
As a successful entrepreneur, your business will gradually expand to the point where you can no longer be involved in all the day-to-day business activities.
Moving to the next growth phase requires you to create systems that free you from the operational side, and allow you to focus on growing and improving the business instead.
The time has come to set up and document your business systems – how things should be done. Indeed, business systemization is vital if you want to be successful, expand and have a sustainable business.
However, there are a number of mistakes that the small business owner often makes when first introducing business systemization.
Avoid these five common pitfalls when systemizing business processes and you’ll get the results you want.