Making The Transition:  From An Entrepreneurship To A Professionally Managed Company

Is it time for you to make the transition from the present entrepreneurial style to a more professional style of management? The four steps in developing your organization are:

1.     Assess the company’s current state of development as an organization and its future development needs.

2.     Design a program for the development of the organization as a whole.

3.     Implement the organizational development program.

4.     Monitor the program and make changes as needed.

“Growing Pains” typically indicate a need to:

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 Define organizational roles and responsibilities and the link between roles – determine what “positions” are needed and develop job descriptions for those positions;

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 Become profit oriented rather than strictly sales oriented;

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 Help employees plan and budget their time – teach them how to set realistic financial and non-financial goals and how to develop contingency plans;

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Develop a business plan and a system for monitoring;

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Increase the effectiveness of current managers and develop a pool of qualified potential managers;

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Identify the direction the company should take in the future  –  this involves determining who the company is, where it’s going (goals and objectives), and how it’s going to get there (action steps).

In order to make the transition a company first must recognize that such a change is needed and then design and implement a program that will facilitate the change.

 

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