The Business Value Planning and Business Organization Design
Why do you need to think about Business Value Planning and organizational design for your business? There could be several reasons why you need to think about Business Value Planning and creating the ‘Ideal Business Organization.* Some are as follows, please add what you might have in your mind.
- In day-to-day business operations, you may be dealing with one problem or another; when you solve one, another pops up, and this situation keeps the business owner/manager constantly juggling several things on a daily basis. Does this scenario help you to think through business growth and development to increase the overall business value?
- Do you wish your business organization possessed a better culture, and even assuming you have one, you still struggle to keep that culture alive, to keep everyone motivated, to keep the cost of operations low, and to increase customer satisfaction? Will that situation, a culture that is aligned, help you to increase profit margins, keep cash flow stable, and increase overall revenue? Wouldn't a better business value planning and organization design help you to meet those challenges?
- Typically small business's life cycle is about 3 to 5 years. When business owners or investors intend to sell, what conditions must the business meet to ensure a smooth transition for the seller and that the business continues to operate without any impact on employees or customers? How can you be ready for that scenario, where you are always prepared and ready to divulge your financial state to others? Isn’t the Ideal Business Organization where you designed your organization to keep operations(both dynamic and structural) stable? Isn’t it the business owner/investor's responsibility to be ‘in the business’ to pursue and leverage the time for further growth and development, or pursue some other interests/hobbies?
The above gives some indicators of why. Now, how can we achieve that state, an Ideal Business Organization, and work on Business Value Planning on a daily basis? Obviously, we cannot go into detailed steps here, as every context is different; these highlights are intended to prompt consideration.
1) We uncover blind spots and gaps in business value using the 14 Immutable Laws of Business**.
2) Understand the current context of your business through four principles, at least: a) Perspective, b) Cash Flow, c) Balance (do you balance from all forces/interactions), and d) Interdependence. In addition, looking through several other principles from several management models.
3) Identification of current and future value states through the 10 Laws of Business Values, and through other management models as needed to the context.4) Creation of Vision Board/Road Map towards creation and development of the Ideal Business Organization5) Some of the contextual custom services include: a) Design and development of the Strategy Cycle as a System loop, b) organizational design that goes beyond hierarchical structures, c) development of Culture As a system, and some others.
NOTES: * Ideal Business Organization: This concept for small business organization originated from www.GrowthConcepts.com, developed while working with small businesses for over four decades, and reflects the realization of the importance of being 'on the business,' not working 'in the business.'
** For the 14 Immutable Laws of Business, please refer to the book written by Mr. David C. Whipple of www.growthconcepts.org. The author of that book discovered these distilled laws through work with small businesses over four decades.


