Use a Business Process Review to Improve Your Competitive Edge

Editor's Note: This post was originally published in August 2015 and has been updated for freshness, accuracy, and comprehensiveness.

Are your business processes efficient? Inefficient processes negatively impact your position in the market, so fixing the flaws is vital to your success. The flaws, however, can be subtle and difficult to pinpoint.

Business processes sometimes develop haphazardly but are used for a long time because it's easier than examining and revamping them. Those haphazardly developed processes aren’t doing you any favours, however, which means it’s time to examine them and revamp them so they’re working for you and not against you.

The best way to do this is with a business process review. A business process review can help you to:

Gain Control of Product or Service Quality

Poor product or service quality might be holding you back from having a competitive advantage. The costs of poor quality include internal and external failure costs, appraisal costs, and prevention costs.

Increasing costs further damages production efficiency and affects the final product. With a business process review, you can take control and prevent poor quality rather than engage in damage control after the fact.

Reduce Costs and Expenditure

Production processes frequently create waste, which significantly increases unit costs – another major factor to consider in your business processes.

A business process review shows you how to avoid waste and keep unit costs low. High unit costs impact market price, possibly leading you to price your product out of the market and leaving room for competitors to swoop in and take market share.

Improve Employee Engagement

Employee engagement is a key factor in having a smoothly run organization. Well trained, engaged employees positively affect almost all business aspects, from boosting your company culture to driving new business leads and innovation.

A business process review helps you identify cracks in employee engagement that are preventing you from being productive and keeping your competitive edge.

Take Control and Ensure Efficient Execution of Competitive Strategy

A strategy is only as effective as its execution. With a business process review, you can see inefficiencies before they become a true problem that negatively affects your competitive positioning.

Find out more about leading technologies for business process reviews by contacting Asyma Solutions.