What Is Business Bionics?
Business Bionics is a new way of analysing business in much the same way as a physician analyses the human body. Each area is not distinct but rather relies on the other parts working harmoniously and correctly to attain the maximum strength, flexibility and efficiency. After all, a business should be greater than the sum of its parts!
If your company is young, the bone structure will be developing as you increase in size, you may suffer growing pains and have to learn new balancing skills to match your changing shape. Overexerting parts of the body before the muscles have developed can lead to trapped nerves and painful joints.
Business habits are formed in well established companies, often processes continue to be followed even through the original reasons behind them have changed considerably! Sometimes, new methods need to be tried, new neural pathways opened in the brain and the body trained to work in a new more efficient and effective way.
This unique offering enables the identification of ‘stress points’ (areas likely cause you pain) so that your business posture can be corrected at an early age, preventing the strain of a business walking with a limp due to misaligned processes (bones) trapping the communication (nerves) or having to overwork its people (muscles) to alleviate a shortfall in technology (joints).
Usually companies have invested in systems and processes to cope with growth and deal with various aspects of their business. For most, these systems only deal with a specific part of their business e.g. EAI, ERP, CRM, sales, marketing, supply chain efficiency etc, leaving many companies in fragmented disarray.
Consider these business questions:
- Have you mapped all of your core processes?
- Do you know your process capacities?
- Can you pinpoint any single point(s) of failure?
- Do you know who is responsible for every aspect of your business?
- Do you have measures and controls identifying
process effectiveness? - Are you rewarding the right people?
- How many separate data repositories are there in your organisation?
- Is your data managed effectively and does data
replication cost your organisation money? - Who is subversive and who is supportive to your objectives?
- Do you have room for improvement (do you know how much, have you got a base line)?
- Would an enhanced service benefit your clients?
- Would an enhanced business package help
retain your staff? - Do you know your rate of staff sickness or staff turnover?
- Are you working to your maximum efficiency and effectiveness (how do you measure this)?