Author: Ashish Deshpande

Every business is made up of multiple moving parts. Each needs to work smoothly for your team to deliver projects on time and exceed customer expectations.

If a part breaks down, a ripple effect occurs across the entire organization, resulting in project delays and huge cost overruns.

So how can you turn your business into a well-oiled machine? How can you systemize your processes and ensure more consistent results?

The answer is with SOPs or standard operating procedures — a way to document your processes from start to finish.

Your process is only as strong as its weakest link.

However, without a solid process improvement methodology to give you the framework to analyze and improve processes properly, you can’t be sure you’re always fixing the weakest link in the chain.

Read on to learn more about the top enhancement frameworks, how they work, and when to use them.

Think of a business like a car — everything needs to work together to get you to your next destination. A breakdown in just one system can leave you stranded on the road.

Each system in a car is like a business process. If you don’t properly manage those processes, parts of your company could “break down” or become inefficient over time.

So how can you better manage your business processes? How can you improve their efficiency and increase productivity?

This is where BPM or business process management comes in.

In this article, we’ll take an in-depth look at what BPM is. We’ll also cover the three main types and six stages of BPM, as well as best practices to follow. 

Processes are at the heart of every organization. But things become more complex as a business grows and expands.

What may have previously worked for your organization is likely slowing down how things get done now. This impacts overall productivity and leads to inconsistent outcomes. 

So what’s the best way to manage the growing complexity of processes? And how can you ensure processes are running as efficiently as possible?

The answer is with process documentation.

In this article, we’ll look at how to document a process, why it’s important, and best practices to follow. We’ll also look at the tools you can use to document and automate your processes.

Toyota made headlines when it became the largest carmaker in the world, a title that General Motors held for nearly 80 years.

So how did Toyota do it?

There are many reasons behind Toyota’s success — offering affordable cars with unmatched reliability and excellent customer service certainly helped.

But Toyota got to that point because it built a culture of continuous improvement, which helped the carmaker reduce waste and improve the quality of its vehicles.

These principles are based on operational excellence, and applying them to your own company can deliver a huge competitive advantage.

This article will take an in-depth look at operational excellence and how you can achieve it in your business. We’ll also cover its core principles as well as methodologies to implement.