Successful businesses require well-managed, efficient internal processes…
Well-run internal processes enable business leaders to focus on culture and employees, market changes and innovations, as well as envisioning the company’s future…
Successful businesses require well-managed, efficient internal processes…
Well-run internal processes enable business leaders to focus on culture and employees, market changes and innovations, as well as envisioning the company’s future…
While often appearing mundane and bothersome, internal or back-office processes keep a company moving. Their health and efficiency is as important to the enterprise as acquiring new customers and fending off marketplace competitors. Indeed, these very processes may be the key to achieving success in both of these areas… they were for Walmart, Dell, Southwest Airlines and many others.
Businesses grind to a halt without sound operational practices. Effective and efficient core business functions including strategic and tactical planning, innovation, operations/production, procurement and partnerships, customer service, and information technology contribute significantly to overall success. (So do finance, human resources, and marketing and sales as covered in other StrategyDriven forums.)
Each core business function is itself a complex topic, commonly served by whole divisions or departments within large companies. For the entrepreneur and small/mid-sized enterprise, these functions require no less attention but are typically not surrounded by the weighty policies and programs necessitated by massive scale.
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The StrategyDriven Managing Your Business Forum presents the sound operational practices managing core business functions such as strategic and tactical planning, innovation, operations/production, procurement and partnerships, customer service, and information technology. Note that insights associated with financial functions can be found in the Managing Your Finances Forum, those associated with the human resources function within the Managing Your People Forum, and those associated with the marketing and sales function within the Online Marketing and Website Development Forum.
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