“You do not have to wake up at night wondering if everyone in your business is contributing”.
Who does what in your business?
A purpose-focused business is a business that places a strong emphasis on its winning aspirations, beyond just profit-making. The primary goal of such a business is to do what matters deeply to them and in that also make a positive impact on society and their environment. They do this by delivering useful products or services in an artful manner. The purpose becomes the driving force that guides the investment into capabilities that the business needs to achieve its purpose. .
It is often said that you cannot manage what you cannot measure. At SlightlySkew we agree with this principle but would add that if you, in order to manage something, it has to be carefully crafted. Furthermore it has been proven that to use models rather than long descriptions you can clearly and unambiguously craft your business. John Zachman was one of the first people to popularise the concept that a business has multiple dimensions. These dimensions closely align with what journalists would use to provide a comprehensive account of an event. It critically covers the why, what, when, where, which and how questions (dimensions).
The reason why it is so difficult to describe a business fully is because people mix these dimensions. You have to focus on a single dimension and complete the dimension before moving to the next.
SlightlySkew subscribes to the view that you always start with the work dimension that needs to be done in a business. Our approach to ensure the business is purpose- focussed, is that we start with the owner’s purpose and we decompose the purpose to understand the activities that make-up the value chain of the business. Each of these activities, or in our words capabilities become a purpose in itself when decomposed. This becomes a business functional decomposition. In mathematics, functional decomposition is the process of resolving a functional relationship into its constituent parts in such a way that the original function can be reconstructed (i.e., recomposed) from those parts by function composition.
SlightlySkew is a business crafting method that designs and integrates the functional and emotional elements of a business to create extraordinary value. SlightlySkew ensures the interconnectedness of every part of the business because when all parts work together in harmony, they create a powerful impact which delivers extraordinary results.
