GIST for Business

Having a clean workplace is important, and having a neat and tidy customer-facing space does wonders for customer perception. & If a simple janitor is what you need, GIST can probably do that too. However - 

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One of the biggest problems that almost any business faces is the mess that isn't always immediately visible, the clutter that often gets lost in the hustle and motion of constant workflow. If you own, operate, or manage a business in almost any field, you likely know what I mean. Things like:

• That filing cabinet in the back office that has employee records from 5 years ago, recipes that aren't used any more, outdated employee training manuals, operations manuals for equipment you no longer use, etc. How long have you been looking for the time to get that all purged or archived? 

• Malfunctioning or obsolete equipment mixed into the same storage and/or usage areas as the new or working stuff. When are you going to be able to assign someone to go through and look for all of that? 

• Way too many copies of the same items, goods or paperwork, all scattered and taking up room in different locations - because for some reason, no one can seem to put things back where they go. 

• That one shelf. (Or closet. Or cabinet.) You know the one. Wouldn't it be nice to have that storage space for actual, functional inventory? 

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Even beyond the physical mess, businesses face harder-to-grasp clutter that impacts efficiency and workflow just as much, and can compound with the physical mess to enmesh a surprising amount of your company's time and resources. These can include:

• Scattered file systems on the office computer or company server. For example: how many copies of that same policy manual are probably saved in four or five different folders, and how many of your employees actually know where to even find or access those folders?

• Outdated or poorly written SOP's. It's hard to guarantee efficient and consistent work from your employees when documented standard operating procedures are hard to understand, or have been long outpaced by procedural changes and tribal knowledge that renders them largely obsolete. 

• Organizational systems that no longer serve your work space the way they should. Whether it's goods storage, filing systems, task checklists, work station arrangements, or scheduling charts - when systems are cluttered or inefficient, the whole company can start to feel it. 

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Inefficiency, redundancy, and stagnation are some of the biggest obstacles to a truly clean, efficient, and culturally uplifting business environment - but where are you going to find the labor hours or time in your own schedule to tackle these obstacles? For small business owners especially, this is the challenge that keeps them from getting to the root of these seemingly endless struggles.

 

GIST is ready to help. With our individualized approach, we will consult with you from step one to learn the "ins and outs" of your business - what you do, how you do it, what your space is like, what your goals are, what your daily routine is, your crew & culture - and then assess what it is you most want to achieve, and determine what we can do with our services to help you get there. 

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To learn more about our individualized approach, and how we use Root Cause Analysis, check out How We Do Things.

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For any questions, or if you think you might be ready to Get Into Stuff Together and would like to set up your consultation, click here. 

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