What’s the best way to stay ahead of the competition? Well, that old saying ‘keep your friends close and your enemies closer’ has a lot of truth to it…
The reality is, if you’re going to make any meaningful change within your business and out-perform your competitors you’re going to need a good understanding of Business Process. On top of that, you’ll need an in-depth insight and analysis into both yours and your competitors’ businesses.
Get to know your competitors
A quick Google of their website won’t cut it; competitor analysis should cover everything from products to target audience, sales to strategies and marketing tactics. Acquiring this insight is crucial when trying to outperform your competitors and help your bottom line, especially if you want to build an effective business strategy from within.
Get to know your own business
As well as getting to know your competitors that bit better, you also need to have a really in-depth understanding of your own business and where it’s currently at. You’re not going to hit your sales goals for example if your new business acquisition isn’t working as well as your complaint handling. It’s only when a company manages to get every department performing and working in sync together that profits really soar.
So how do you go about gaining this insight both into your competitors’ current position and your own? And will it end up costing your business a whole lot of time and money in the long run?
If you plan to have external consultants to come in and help implement a business change initiative, then those concerns are legitimate; it can indeed be costly and will likely involve a fair bit of relationship-building time too.
On the other hand, if you can train your own people up to acquire the same business process skills that can be utilised in-house, it will prove a far more cost-effective option while at the same time showing commitment and investment in your own team.
Training that improves your bottom line
Modelling Business Process is one of the accredited courses we provide here at Amatis Training and can be transformative in helping to develop core skills for key people such as analysing, evaluating and improving business processes.
In turn it can prove invaluable for businesses too. Think about your own business for a moment and some of the current challenges you are facing. In order to make any changes and improve business systems you need a comprehensive understanding of how your business operates, the systems it uses and how they are all performing right now.
Now imagine that some of your staff are trained in Modelling Business Processes and are able to not only analyse and evaluate the current business processes you have in place, but also identify and model the value proposition needed to drive forward a business change initiative. That’s one significant ROI!
Putting your key people forward for training isn’t about taking your staff out of the office and away from their work. Our courses can be conducted in a variety of different ways to suit you and your people – whether that’s carrying out our instructor-led courses, or completing the course online, with the help of our unique App, available on Android or iOS.
Our aim is always to get your key people trained up with the skills needed to drive your business forward while providing minimal disruption and impact on your day-to-day work.
If this sounds of interest to you and you’d like to know more, please do get in touch – I’d welcome the opportunity to talk through some of our accredited courses with you and how they might benefit your team and your business.