How to Design A Better Company Infrastructure

This episode explains what your infrastructure entails, why it’s vital to your company, and how to fix it.

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What is Infrastructure?

The parts of your company that create, deliver, and support your product. The product is king, and infrastructure is its kingdom. It impacts your company’s efficiency, profits, and work-life balance.

Thinking Like a Buyer

Look at your company the way a potential buyer would. Every flaw in the company impacts valuation. Poor infrastructure will either scare them off or significantly lower your valuation. Buyers can pay you a fraction, fix the issues they see, and reap the benefits. It’s your job to optimize your company.

Fixing Your Infrastructure

Most infrastructure issues stem from a lack of planning. A thriving company requires a combination of optimized plans and resources.

Make a Plan

Plans will not be perfect, so you have to adapt. Don’t get discouraged! Learn from the mistakes of each plan, and move forward every time.

Break it Down

Analyze your company from the top down. Break your company down into units. Focus on the objectives of each unit, rather than individuals within it. What steps will lead you to your objective? Are those steps efficient?

You Have Help

Ask your team how the system can be improved. Be an active listener. No one knows the system better than those inside it.

Start Small

Significant changes begin with small steps. The solution isn’t a one-and-done. If you can solve small problems fir

This episode explains what your infrastructure entails, why it’s vital to your company, and how to fix it.

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Key Links

Sign-up for your FREE COPY of Exit Mindset (Releasing soon!) http://exitmindset.com/

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What is Infrastructure?

The parts of your company that create, deliver, and support your product. The product is king, and infrastructure is its kingdom. It impacts your company’s efficiency, profits, and work-life balance.

Thinking Like a Buyer

Look at your company the way a potential buyer would. Every flaw in the company impacts valuation. Poor infrastructure will either scare them off or significantly lower your valuation. Buyers can pay you a fraction, fix the issues they see, and reap the benefits. It’s your job to optimize your company.

Fixing Your Infrastructure

Most infrastructure issues stem from a lack of planning. A thriving company requires a combination of optimized plans and resources.

Make a Plan

Plans will not be perfect, so you have to adapt. Don’t get discouraged! Learn from the mistakes of each plan, and move forward every time.

Break it Down

Analyze your company from the top down. Break your company down into units. Focus on the objectives of each unit, rather than individuals within it. What steps will lead you to your objective? Are those steps efficient?

You Have Help

Ask your team how the system can be improved. Be an active listener. No one knows the system better than those inside it.

Start Small

Significant changes begin with small steps. The solution isn’t a one-and-done. If you can solve small problems first, you’ll be more confident when more complex ones arise. Top-down analysis works with any size problem.

Weakest Link

Your company will only work as well as its least-efficient piece. Focus first on the high-impact issues, then go from there. Start improving your business today, step by step.

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