Too much needs the owner's approval
Separate routine decisions from true exceptions so work does not wait for you.
01 · What is usually happening?
Purchase approvals, discounts, payments and priority changes all wait for the owner. When the owner is at a customer, in a meeting or travelling, work stops.
Most of these approvals are routine. The owner signs them without changing anything.
The question people usually ask“How do I check everything?”
The more useful question“Which decisions actually need me, and who can handle the rest?”
02 · Common causes
- 01No written approval limits
- 02Trust built on people, not rules
- 03Past mistakes led to everything coming back to the owner
- 04No simple way to review decisions after the fact
- 05Staff are not sure what they are allowed to decide
03 · What to check now0 of 6 checked
04 · What good looks like
- 01Written limits by type and value.
- 02A named approver for each limit.
- 03Exceptions come to you with the facts attached.
- 04A weekly list of what others approved.
- 05Limits reviewed every quarter.
05 · Where this connects
This rarely stays in one department
What it can lead to: The business slows down whenever you are away.
Start from a problem
Work flows left to right, top to bottomKEYMost important for manufacturing
These support every part of the business
Problem
Too much needs my approval
Usually connected to
How it spreads
- Request
- Owner
- Purchasing
- Supplier
What it can lead to: Work waits whenever you are busy or away.
lamplamp can route approvals and bring only the important ones to you.
08 · lamp
lamp could keep this moving
lamp is not available yet. These are things it is being built to do.
- lamp could route routine approvals to the right person.
- lamp could bring you only exceptions, with the facts.
- lamp could send you a weekly summary of decisions.
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