Is Your Infrastructure Solid Essay

Last week, in our “Is Your Infrastructure Solid?” blog post, we discussed the importance of building systems into your business and the predictable nightmare that most small business owners suffer when they lack clear systems and processes.

If you are like most entrepreneurs, you understand the concept of systemization, but are completely overwhelmed by actually having to create the system or process necessary for your business.

And you should be. The average business contains dozens (and sometimes hundreds) of individual processes that have to be routinely executed more or less the same way, EVERY DAY. The project alone, getting them all down on paper or even figuring out exactly how you do what you do, will stop most entrepreneurs in their

This will ring true while you are building your systems too. When a process is new or you have a new person following that process, you’ll begin to see results you didn’t anticipate. However, most breakdowns happen because there’s a flaw in the process not because it’s not followed correctly. The solution: training and clarity on expectations for your process. You and your employees have to constantly look at how to improve things so that errors are avoided in the future.

2. CHANGE HAPPENS

Sometimes, things don’t necessarily break but a significant change occurs in your business that affects a process and requires it to be reworked. Those significant changes are sometimes new laws, industry changes, or even technology upgrades. Either way, you have to understand your processes and how it affects each of them.

3. THE LEARNING CURVE

You will always be looking for new and improved ways to do something that involves your business. It can come from an article, insight from another business or advice from a peer or mentor. Some things will work and some won't. But when they do work, you want to be sure to update your system documentation to reflect those