“You never need to wonder if your employees all contribute to your business goals”.
Who does what in your business?
There are a few ways in which an entrepreneur or business owner can decide to structure or design his or her business. The first is what is generally known as a role-driven business design. This approach organises the business based on the specific roles of individuals within the business. In this design methodology, the focus is on defining and aligning roles to the business objectives and the owner will claim to need a Sales Manager, a Financial Manager, an Operations Manager, etc. It emphasises the idea that the success of a business is largely dependent on how well individuals in different roles contribute to achieving common goals. The second is a data-driven design approach. A data-driven business design approach refers to a methodology where data plays a central role in guiding and influencing the design of the business, including strategy, decision-making, operations, and innovation. In a data-driven business design, organisations rely on the systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of data to inform their key business processes. The third approach, an approach SlightlySkew subscribes to 100%, is an activity / function-driven design approach. Our reason; People go to work (activity / function) not to a role or piece of data. The work to be done in the business serves as the central foundation of the business and depicts all work activities that occur in the business to attain a purpose (see our blog on Purpose-focused business). The design process using activities / function uses an approach called 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. A very sound approach to designing your business.
