Lara GuevaraSupply Chain expert (Product and Service)

If Your Business Can't Run Without You, You Don't Have a System Yet #businesstips #operations

9 Sept 2026 · 1 min

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Lara Guevara walks through five processes her team built and tests them against four questions: does it have a name, an owner who isn't her, a recurring calendar slot, and written steps a new hire could follow. Most processes fail this check. September's focus: actually systemizing them.

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August's done. We built 5 things: a monthly landed cost review, a per-SKU repricing rule, a weekly margin meeting, a shipping cadence, a production check-in rhythm. Now go through all 5 and ask the same 4 questions. Does it have a name? Does it have an owner who isn't me? Does it recur on someone else's calendar? Is it written down well enough that a new hire could run it? My honest guess is most of you can name them and almost none are reading them. That's normal. It's also the bull gap. September, we go properly into systems. See you Thursday.