Processes Are The Foundation for Aligning Systems

“If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.” ~ W. Edwards Deming 

When things don’t go right in your organization, the finger of blame gets pointed to anyone and anything. More often than not, it’s not your people – it’s your processes. Either you have a missing process, a poorly-defined process, or you’re not properly executing the processes you have. It’s all part of a discipline we call Aligning Systems. 

A process is a sequenced set of activities that produce an end result.Whether you realize it or not, your organization has many of them – dozens, hundreds, even thousands of them!  You have processes in sales, marketing accounting, production,  - across every function. Collectively, processes are like the blueprints that describe how your organization works – or, in many cases, doesn’t work. 

…we’d all feel more accomplished, satisfied, even comfortable. Yet, we’re always trying to get our processes right, and it’s still not easy. However, don’t confuse simplicity with significance. Just because a process is seemingly simple, doesn’t mean it’s not important – even vital – to your organization.  

Please understand: Six Disciplines business coaches are not “experts” telling you what your processes should be. The experts on the way your business works – or could work – are right inside your own company. 

Our business coaches, however, are experts at guiding you through a systematic approach to improving your organization’s business processes – one process at a time, one step at a time. And, we’ll show you how to maintain each process, so it stays aligned with your strategy and plans. Using the software component of the Six Disciplines program makes managing processes, and the communication that’s required to maintain and enhance them, a much easier task.

Get one process right, and the next process gets a little easier to do right, because it’s built upon and surrounded by other sound processes.