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The secret to building a growing business is through scalable processes, but still, how?

If you are a manager or business owner, then you want to add more value to your customers and obviously faster. Happier customers mean more business and referrals everywhere, and when the business can confidently do more work and retain existing customers, they can grow sustainably.

If you are a team leader or founder of a software company, then focus on minimizing loss, meeting the market with the right products, and creating repeatable processes that allow your team to build, grow, and expand predictably.

“Scalable” means that we have a strong enough process that continues to allow the team to perform even as new members are added to the team.

Scalability means that as the business grows, existing processes either help the team continue to produce at its production level or allow them to produce more.

Creating any type of process requires steps – understanding the desired end result, planning the steps to get there, testing the process and implementing the process, and all of these are the secrets to creating scalable processes.

But what makes a scalable process different?

First of all, the scalable process is one that can withstand a number of factors and stressors. He can also manage the volume and combine efficiency with relevance where only the most important steps are part of the process.

Second, the scalable process allows other parties to develop within or around the process. A scalable process keeps a facet of the business as predictable as possible, allowing other teams, product lines, or service lines to grow production in some way.

At the heart of this analysis are a few tricks:

Understanding the current process in place

How many times have I assumed that I understood the problem immediately? And then, after we implement the solution, we realize how far we’ve actually gone. That’s exactly what happens with building any process, let alone a scalable one.

The first step is to always take the time to understand the small details of the existing process, even if it is really awful or slow, to get the desired result. Learn in depth the tools and technologies to see how they are used and when they are used. but also to understand the dependencies between teams.

While this step seems obvious, the secret is to really immerse your nails in the process. Know it as the back of your hand and document it. When you rebuild it, you’ll need to know where you came from.

Identifying your success gaps

With a scalable process, you need to be able to discover the main gaps in the existing process. This can only be done if you have really taken the time to understand the process.

But once you do, your success gaps could fall into a number of areas of efficiency:

Time – the existing process takes too long or too little time
Cost – the existing process costs too much to bear or has an unwanted opportunity cost
Resources – the existing process does not have enough resources, the right resources or the right technologies or tools
Your success gaps will determine which “levers” you can pull to fit the existing process into an infinitely more scalable one.

Automating the process as much as possible

This is perhaps the biggest secret of all: capitalizing on automation in your processes.
What makes a process truly scalable is its ability for others to produce more of the desired result or to predictably achieve a desired result better or faster.
How to make this as reliable as possible is through project automation (also known as workflow automation and process automation).

The best processes are the ones you don’t have to think about or remember to do. Instead, you prefer to focus on completing the work without stressing the process itself.
This is the secret of creating a scale process – eliminating both the pressure of the process and the potential for human error.

Iterating on existing processes

You may hear stories about strategic or marketing iteration, sales iteration, development iteration and devops iteration, but iteration of internal operations is usually not the thing that homeowners talk about first, though they should.

Just as you repeat the sales process to find out what value proposition and unique selling point catches your customers’ attention, you should do the same for all your processes.

While project automation is arguably the best kept secret about building scalability in your business, combining it with process iteration makes it even stronger.

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If you’re convinced that implementing better, faster processes is the key to your growth, then you might want to consider really spending time understanding the processes that currently exist and where your internal success gaps are.

Once you discover those success gaps, leverage a combination of project automation and process design to fulfil your execution and growth goals.
Are you looking for a scalable tool to help align your team as well as monitor and support projects and goals? Tasky Cloud is the Key!

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