David Jenyns offers a concise tip on growing and scaling a business: build capacity before demand requires it by developing systems and processes. He emphasizes documenting expectations and workflows so work can be taught to new team members and key-person dependencies removed, enabling rapid scaling.
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One of the essential elements as you start to think about growing and scaling your company is about building in capacity. You want to make sure that your business has capacity to deliver its products and services before you actually need to do it. Now, one of the best ways to do that is through developing systems and processes, because that enables you to get very clear on what your expectations are and define how things are done. Which means that you can very quickly start to scale up and teach that to new team members as you start to remove that key person and dependency. So again, one of the essential elements to grow and scale is to start thinking about building up capacity. And that's done through building systems and processes.