16 Essential Steps to Writing Standard Operating Procedures process.st /writing-standard-operating-procedures/ 4/19/2017
Adam Henshall April 19, 2017
Whether you’re starting a business or trying to improve an existing one, you have to understand how things are going to get done. What tasks do you need to do? Who needs to do them? What are the best ways to approach these tasks? Working out how these questions can be answered is the first step toward systemizing your business. The creation of processes and workflows will define the way in which your day to day activities function. One popular approach to this is the creation of standard operating procedures. The simple definition provided by IBM for standard operating procedures is:
…a set of instructions that describes all the relevant steps and activities of a process or procedure.
Simple. But how do we create these SOPs? What we need are standard operating procedures for creating standard operating procedures. And that’s what we’re going to give you. We’ll look at:
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