The Business Process Mapping streamlines your internal ways of doing work. That is your fastest way to increase the bottom line. Your plan cannot be launched without support in the background. There are at least four support areas for the successful implementation of your plan. The four support areas are:
1. Business Process Mapping
2. Organizational change management
3. Leadership development
4. Management development
First you must clean up any organizational inefficiency found in the processes. This is done through Business Process Mapping (BPM). Don’t delay the implementation of your action plan until the process improvements are completed because they will never be finished and must be seen as ongoing initiatives. The BPM can and should run concurrent with your plan implementation. A number of organizational change activities may also take place to support your plan. They may include activities such as restructuring the organization, an acquisition for growth, or restructuring the debt burden. Strategically realigning the resources and core competencies may be other examples of the organizational change necessary to support the future direction of your company.
Leadership and managership behavior must also be aligned with the plan. Little is accomplished by establishing a vision if leadership is remiss or by setting bold goals if the skill of managerial efforts is lacking. Actions for improving leadership functions and management behaviors necessary to match the plan requirements must be carefully programmed. During the sustaining phase you must pay attention to four sets of activities required to keep the planning momentum.
