
I am changing gears in the business
Small businesses "change gear" when:
It is time to introduce some Practices where there aren't any, and review the ones that are there and improve them if necessary. Look at the names of the Maturity Levels. if you have come through a storm and you want to get things in control, you need to at least have the Level 1:Controlling Practices in place. If you want a nice tidy busines that you can see and measure then the Level 2:Managing Practices are required. if you want to move up a gear, run a tighter ship, lift your game, squeeze some efficiencies... all those clichés ... then look at the Level 3:Improving Practices. But you can't run before you walk. To get to Level 2 or 3 you really need to get the lower level Practices in place first. Some business methodologies are quite rigid that you shouldn't move on until all Practices in a level are in place. Remember the CoPr approach is whatever works, makes sense and is achievable, so you may end up working on Practices from a couple of levels at the one time. But in general they build on each other. |