The warning signs?
Each department winds up with its own way of doing the same or similar things—and fights to keep it that way.
There’s no motive for systemic change, as each manager/business process owner is focused on one’s own area of responsibility.
Since everybody is so focused on keeping their own wheels spinning, nobody is thinking about how their team’s behavior affects the rest of the company.
If any of this type of entrenched resistance to changes seems familiar, you might consider bringing in a business process consultant like CORPAC to introduce a holistic approach to getting your systems (or wheels) back into alignment.
Questionnaire
Are you seeing everything you need to see?
Do you find yourself putting out the same fires, over and over?
When’s the last time you stepped back and took a look at your company at a whole systems level?
How much have your internal controls, procedures and processes, evolved and changed over the years? How far have they progressed from the original plan?
If you designed your business processes today, would everything look the same? Or would you start from a different (and probably wiser) perspective?
What would better systems look like?
It is hard to know unless you step back and assess your organization as a whole from the big picture.
Do you have the time to do the painstaking, objective, evidence-based research and internal analysis to snapshoot every aspect of your operations?
If the answer is “no,” you could use the help of a business process consultant like CORPAC.
It’s great to learn from mistakes. It’s better to have business process protocols in place so you avoid making those mistakes in the first place, or at least avoid their being repeated.
Corpac will help you at any stage with scientifically designed corrective measures.