Take the top 3 businesses in any industry, or your industry. Now take a look at how they do business? It is safe to say they did not start or run their businesses with exactly the same processes. HP and Dell build and sell in two very different ways.......Ford and Toyota, Apple and Microsoft.
Their approaches and execution are different. It is safe to say that the most responsive organization to the marketplace is the one that wins most marketshare. The difference though is not in the raw materials of the business, but in the thought structure of how to execute, and the responsiveness is based on the ability to take the thought process from the top to the bottom and execute it rapidly and well.
Speed to market with the "new" idea.
Is your organization set up to communicate quickly and effectively between groups? Do you have a "siloed" business for budgeting, goal setting, and execution - or does each group do it's best to support the entire organizations goal of getting ahead?
Do you succeed because of Stars or Teamwork?
One of the bonuses of doing a business continuity plan is it breaks down the silo's and gets your team focused on communicating and understanding it's priorities and corporate goals.
A simple test to see if you are prepared is go and ask the head of a department to name the top goal and top problem of a sister department they have to work with in the organization.
If they can't........your not communicating well organizationally.
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