Organize and Win

How you organize your business can have a very big impact on how well it does. When you are starting out you may be chief cook and bottle washer; but you need to be looking ahead and be willing to delegate some authority as soon as possible. As companies grow, greater organization is a must. Finding the correct personnel with the proper expertise can be a challenge, but it will be rewarding. Positioning these experts in the best manner can also be a challenge but it is necessary. The way you organize your business will determine your success.

The proper flow of paperwork and product will enhance quality, efficiency, customers, and most important your bottom line. Creating this flow requires a good amount of expertise. The companies that do well almost always have a small group of executives at the top. Their job is to keep the company profitable while following the mission statement established when the company was formed. These executives wil determine the basic organization of the company and work to improve the botom line. In many cases, they receive a bonus, or commission based upon their impact on the bottom line.

Each of these executives create the best posible flow within their area and coordinate it with the remaining areas. Benchmarks are created and goals etablished to reach the maximum potential of profit for the business and for evaluating each executive.

Today, much of the thinking has changed, and many of the middle managers are being eliminated. This has caused an increase in the number of meetings involving workers and upper management. Sometimes this is good, and sometimes not so good, dependng upon the level of cooperation. Good CEO's will find capable executives and let them manage their areas and only evaluate by outcome, management potential and coopeation within the group.

Much of my experience has been in working offline, but that doesn't mean it can't be applied online. Over the years, I learned a lot of different jobs to some extent. Companies liked to promote from within and wanted you to understand how the company functioned from the various departments required to run the business.

Today, their are fewer middle mangers and much more of the day to day work is better understood by upper managemet. With "just in time" and "can ban" and "reduced inventories"  (more turns) we have to be much more flexible. This requires better and better oganization even of commitments to other companies with respect to your company. Maybe, we should change the name "organization" to coordinator.

The organizaton's that continually evaluate and adjust to better fit customer demand will eventually rise to the top. The cream of anything always rises.

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