Why Your Business Needs a Lean Business Operating System In Order To Scale
Implementing a business operating system is critical when you want to develop a truly scalable business that can run itself without everything being dependent on you.
It is your system of systems for how you run your business so it can operate efficiently and with consistent and repeatable results.
It includes what you do, how you do it, and why you do it across a series of processes, systems, roles, skills, and business model structures highlighting how you deliver value via your offers and key functions of the business.
The problem with most business operating systems is that they are overly complex, painful to implement, and often forgotten or misused once created.
They are not designed with the unique needs of a small to mid-sized business in mind which is why we created the Lean Business Operating System (LBOS), one that is actually valuable and sustainable for today's digital business.
It includes everything your business needs and nothing it doesn't and works seamlessly with the lean strategic planning system and lean dream team system. Goodbye unnecessary complexity and overhead.
​The Lean Business Operating System is the bridge between working harder and scaling smarter.​
It gives you the structure, systems, and visibility you need to scale sustainably, simplify operations, and free yourself from being the engine running the business.
If this sounds like exactly what you've been looking for...
There are 2 Options for Implementing the Lean Business Operating System
1.
We'll Implement It For You
Whether you want to implement our full Lean Scaling System or laser focus on the Lean Business Operating System, we'll partner with you to do so
2.
We'll Train & Certify Your Team to Implement It
We offer 2 expert certification programs for operational leaders that include our Lean Business Operating System
Curious what's included in the system?
Here's a sneak peek into what we include in our Lean Business Operating System (LBOS)
It includes a complete ecosystem with trainings, templates, toolkits, and meeting cadences to simplify implementation and train your team, which we customize based on your unique needs.
The Lean Business Operating System addresses:
- Implementing your personalized Scaling System
- Developing a Company Playbook that actually gets used
- Leading with company culture, mission, vision, values
- Defining your value streams and strategic systems for scale
- Developing a vision-aligned operating model
- Defining your critical tools, tech, and infrastructure needs
- Developing simple and high-value processes and SOPsÂ
- Developing and integrating your core business systemsÂ
- Continuously tuning the engine that runs your business
- Business performance measures, KPIs, and dashboards
The backbone of every system is based on the 4 pillars of the Lean Out Method - Context, Clarity, Commitment, and Kaizen
Here are the business questions that the Lean Business Operating System answers:
- Context:
- What is the company's vision, mission, values, and culture?
- What results are most important to us?
- Clarity:
- Who does what when, using what skills, systems, tools, and resources?
- Where can employees and contractors access company playbooks, systems, and important information?
- Commitment:
- What does it take to efficiently get repeatable and consistent results and maintain and optimize our systems?
- What are our standards and non-negotiables?
- Kaizen:
- What dashboards, metrics, data, and reflection practices do we leverage to measure our efficiency and effectiveness and continuously improve our results?
The Lean Business Operating System (LBOS) is one of 9 interconnected engines that comprise the Lean Business Scaling System™.
Interested in implementing the full Lean Scaling System and building out your Lean Business Operating System as part of it? Smart move!