Business process

Overview

The following is a list of things I do at regular intervals regarding my business in the hopes of improving how well it works.

Lifetime

• Plan how the business will be when it is "finished", then backtrack to the present and plan how you’ll get there
• Define the business you want and then start implementing it from day one

Yearly

• Reflect on the year that completed and determine what you want to get rid of and what you want improve
• Plan the high level goals for the year to come

Monthly

• Find what the 80/20 of the business is at the moment and plan the month with that in mind
• Track the progress of the overall goals
• Review/Update the business process
• Figure out where time is wasted and work to get rid of that time
• Try to automate as much as possible / Look for things that are worth optimizing
• Find things you can innovate on (things that are mundane but could be changed in order to improve something)

Weekly

• Do a problem/root cause analysis on any issue that is occurring enough to be a problem

Daily

• Quantify everything you can, then track/measure it (with proper statistical analysis)
• Evaluate different changes and their impact
• Figure out what is The Best Way to do everything
• Note everything that is a problem (so that you can fix it while doing a monthly review)
• Test ideas
• Work on making the process/results predictable (by the customers)