The first step in creating a business process is to consider the issues and potential problems. Think of it this way, you don’t have to run your business if you don’t have to and you don’t have to if you don’t have to. This is your opportunity to think through the process, decide on the direction you will take your business to, and start working on a strategy to ensure your business is successful.
That’s a pretty simple point. You don’t have to be doing everything in your business, but you do need to be doing it in the right way. Once you’ve done that, you can also start to think about the business’s process. Once you have that, you can begin to think about your business’s business process. We’ll go into detail about that in the following chapter.
This chapter is about how you start your business.
Business process development is a process of creating the businesss process. Business processes are a set of methods, procedures, and schedules the business uses in order to operate. The term process is actually a misnomer. Process is a process, but a business is still a process. As you read from here on the business process will be explained in detail.
Business process development is a set of methods, procedures, and schedules used in the operation of a business. A business process is not a process itself, but rather a set of steps that the business is following in order to realize its goals. Your job is to use these steps to create your business’s process and then take care of the details that make your process successful.
Your business process has three important components: the process itself, the business itself, and how you are using the process to solve problems. Your process will be quite different depending on your business. It can be very simple if you are a small business, but a very complex process when you are a Fortune 500. For a small business it may be a lot of paper and pencils, for a Fortune 500 it may be a lot of email and phone calls.
Business processes are used to get things done, and the way they are used can have a huge impact on how your business operates. A simple process that is put in place to get a certain thing done, may be a very poor process if it does not take into account the larger whole that your business is.
You can use the process described in Chapter 4 for business processes.
In Chapter 4 we talked about how your business can be affected by the way you work, and how that affects the way you think, how you act, and how you make decisions. In this chapter we’ll look at how the way you organize your business affects how you think and how that affects how you do business.
To be more specific, what we’re talking about here is the organization of your business. When you’re in charge of an organization there are many things you have to organize, and it’s usually a lot of work to get everything right. You probably don’t have a lot of time to think about what you will actually do, and that’s why you can get things done really badly and not at all well.