27 processes every Business needs » beSlick

This article is part of our Process 101 guide.

What makes your business special isn’t what you do, but how you do it.

It could be how your service efficient and responsive.

It could be what makes you quirky, or just the things you do that are so much better than the competition.

It’s what gives you the edge.

And what’s another name for the way you do things? Process.

Optimizing these processes is key to achieving your business goals, and that’s where business process management comes in.

Below is a list of 27 processes every business needs, and if you’re already using beSlick you can click the title to import each process Template directly into your Organisation.

What is Business Process Management (BPM)?

Business process management is a discipline, or practice, through which companies can improve their processes. Rather than taking things for granted, you analyze, measure and monitor current processes. From there, optimization starts. This could be through streamlining existing processes, outsourcing certain business activities, or automating repetitive sub-processes.

How can process mapping help?

Wiithout efficient processes you become inefficient, ordinary, uncompetitive. With effective processes, you can replicate your successes over and over again.

Process mapping is often done through flowcharts, and it details every step from start to completion. It’s a great way to spot bottlenecks or other problems in existing processes, as well as set up new processes.

But in order to make a start with process mapping, you need to understand what processes your business already has, and what it needs.

Areas for process improvement

It is worth noting that if you document a process and it never changes, that can be as detrimental as having never documented it at all. Continual feedback and improvement is what keeps your business constantly improving and beating the competition.

To help you get started, there are a number of core processes that every business needs and each one can be honed to make you the best in your field.

We’ve compiled a list for you so that you can review against your current operating procedures and find opportunities to redesign, streamline, and optimize your own.

Free templates to get you started

In addition, we’ve written sample template processes for the majority of the list, saving you from having to develop these from scratch. This can help with standardization, and makes process mapping much quicker.

These processes have been designed to provide a starting point from which you can tailor them to suit your business. Where the process names are linked, they’ll allow you to access the template through the beSlick software. So without further ado, read on!