To improve your business, it is imperative to invest time in evaluating activities that are obviously not as efficient and productive as they could be, along with practices that simply don’t feel right. You must allocate the necessary time for yourself to genuinely engage in this process and then implement meaningful, sustainable changes over time.

Every great advancement in business has come from measuring systems and processes, analyzing those measurements, and making adjustments to produce better products and experiences.

Imagine being a passenger on a commercial airliner that could not fly about the clouds, baseball games where batters do not wear protective helmets, corresponding with friends and family only by mail, loading coal into a furnace to heat your home, no cure for Polio and other diseases, or if the only way to listen to music was with a radio. Granted, we likely wouldn’t know what we were missing, but life would certainly be more arduous and less enjoyable than it is today.

To improve your own business, it is imperative to invest time in considering and evaluating activities that are obviously not as efficient and productive as they could be, along with practices that simply don’t feel right. To successfully endeavor down this path of improvement, you must begin by delegating non-CEO tasks to direct reports, partners, and vendors to allow necessary time for yourself to genuinely engage in this process and implement meaningful, sustainable changes over time.

On this journey, embrace failures and mistakes as valuable companions, each one a lesson learned in your progress toward perfection and success. By acknowledging and quantifying your mistakes, you gain a more accurate and precise understanding of which practices require adjustments going forward, which will lead to better products and services, increased efficiency, and success beyond your expectations. This knowledge empowers you to keenly identify and address areas that need improvement and implements reporting methods at appropriate intervals to know compliance is achieved and new systems and processes are underway.

By making purposeful changes to your systems and processes, whether it is how you quote jobs, adjusting how and when you contact prospective clients, implementing an improved cost accounting system, or tweaking the demographics and locations to whom and where you market, your business will become more efficient, its products and services will improve, profit will increase, and you will enjoy long term success that exceeds your expectations.

What comes to mind about your business that you know could improve? Start there and maintain this process.

Source:  James Becker, Fusion Growth Partners

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