How to Develop a Business Processes

Whether you are starting a new business, or working to improve your current productivity, having a good business process is an important step to achieving your goals. Creating a business process can increase efficiency, quality and accountability in your work.

1. Identifying Your Needs

 

 

Review the challenges facing your current business productivity and success.

List the items you think need to be addressed and describe the problems. This will help you define the source of the problems within your business.

• Consider whether something can be completed more efficiently, cheaply or with higher quality.
• Look for key performance indicators to identify what is functioning well in terms of performance and what needs work toward improvement.^[1]

Ask yourself why it is a problem. If it is the result of another problem, keep tracing it back to it’s source.^[2

    2 .Start at the end

 Identify the goals you would like to achieve with your business process. Focus on increasing the quality, efficiency or cost of your product or service. These should be more a more general vision of your hopes for the future of your company.^[3]

• Consider the future of your company and where you would like to be in the next 1 year and 5 years.
• Your goal should fit with the vision and mission statement of your company.
• Goals should be realistically attainable.
• Avoid setting too many goals.

   3 .Create specific objectives based off of the goals you determined

These should be more specific, time sensitive, and measurable than your goals.^[4]

• Set a measurable time frame to achieve the objective
• Make sure the expectations are reasonable.
• Be sure you have the employees available to complete your objectives within the time frame you have set.