Do you question the way your company does certain things and wonder if there might be a better way things could be done? Here’s a simple test to see if your company has any fangled processes in place that take much more time, man power and money than it should. Simply ask the people who are in charge of the
It's not uncommon for bad practices within a company linger for years costing the company huge dollars in wasted time and tied up resources..
area this question: “Why do we do that?”
If the answer is, “Because that is what we’ve always done.” that process is likely ripe for improvement.
Most companies, as they grow, do form bad habits. It’s generally no one’s fault. This usually happens because someone creates a work-around. Then someone else creates another work around to offset inefficiencies in the original work-around. Then someone else gets hired and creates another work-around to offset the other work-arounds. Then ten years later, someone asks, “Why do we do it that way? That’s when you get the old reply of, “Because that is what we’ve always done.”
If you find yourself in that spot, don’t blame anyone. Just find the best practice for that situation and create a new, more efficient set of rules for that particular process.
TIP: A lot of times service providers are up to speed on the latest best practices. So contacting the service provider who presides over the area in question might offer practical solutions. In other words, if the tangled process is in payroll, ask the payroll provider if they can suggest a better way. If over accounting, ask the ERP provider. You get the idea.
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