SYSTEMology Quotes

“Having worked with hundreds of companies over the years, I have found companies typically find themselves in one of four stages: #1 Survival; #2 Stationary; #3 Scalable; #4 Saleable.”
― David Jenyns, SYSTEMology: Create time, reduce errors and scale your profits with proven business systems

“Business is simply a game of problem-solving.”
― David Jenyns, SYSTEMology: Create time, reduce errors and scale your profits with proven business systems

“having a simple system for problem-solving within your company. • Step #1: Identify a problem and add it to the problems list. • Step #2: Discuss, devise and deploy a solution. • Step #3: Monitor and review the results. • Step #4: If the solution doesn’t deliver the expected results, go back to step #1. If the solution does work, document it and make it part of your new process. It’s”
― David Jenyns, SYSTEMology: Create time, reduce errors and scale your profits with proven business systems

“Remember, before we began, your business was already (mostly) working, and we’ve modelled these systems from what your best team members are doing. We’re looking for consistency and aiming to bring all your team members to that level. It’s also comforting to know your new systems are always the worst they’re ever going to be the first time you create them.”
― David Jenyns, SYSTEMology: Create time, reduce errors and scale your profits with proven business systems

“Systems development is a bit like eating an elephant: you have to do it one bite at a time.”
― David Jenyns, SYSTEMology: Create time, reduce errors and scale your profits with proven business systems

“It’s simply a matter of identifying problems as they arise, prioritising them and then looking for a systems-centred solution.”
― David Jenyns, SYSTEMology: Create time, reduce errors and scale your profits with proven business systems

“Most business owners are great at solving problems, it’s just that many get stuck solving low-quality problems over and over again. One of the goals of SYSTEMology is to move the business owner up the problem-solving ladder and have them working on the biggest-leverage, highest-quality and most important problems of the moment.”
― David Jenyns, SYSTEMology: Create time, reduce errors and scale your profits with proven business systems

“You don’t need to measure everything. In fact, focusing on too many numbers tends to do more harm than good. So, let me challenge you, even if you have a dashboard in your company, to simplify. Let’s set the goal to identify 5–7 key metrics that measure the performance of your CCF.”
― David Jenyns, SYSTEMology: Create time, reduce errors and scale your profits with proven business systems

“start by systemising based on where you are, not where you’d like to be. Optimisation, tweaking and testing your way to a better business is useless – even counterproductive – if you haven’t first established a solid baseline. One of the core principles in SYSTEMology is to first capture what you’re already doing.”
― David Jenyns, SYSTEMology: Create time, reduce errors and scale your profits with proven business systems

“The CCF focuses on the specific objective of having the business make money without being dependent on any one specific team member, so be sure that these systems are up and running.”
― David Jenyns, SYSTEMology: Create time, reduce errors and scale your profits with proven business systems

“I also suggest getting clear on the qualities your team members need to have to succeed within your business and building that into your recruitment process.”
― David Jenyns, SYSTEMology: Create time, reduce errors and scale your profits with proven business systems

“ultimate goal of SYSTEMology: complete business reliability.”
― David Jenyns, SYSTEMology: Create time, reduce errors and scale your profits with proven business systems

“the core benefit of project management software, which is to get your team to use the systems and to record their progress as they’re doing their work.”
― David Jenyns, SYSTEMology: Create time, reduce errors and scale your profits with proven business systems

“The secret to ensuring your business develops a culture where systems are not just created, but actually used, is to introduce some level of accountability.”
― David Jenyns, SYSTEMology: Create time, reduce errors and scale your profits with proven business systems

“Then there’s project management software (sometimes referred to as task management or jobs management), which acts as an accountability and management tool. The goal of this software is to track all of your projects and ensure that every team member knows the tasks they should be working on and when they’re due. This also gets all your team communication, relating to any project, out of your email and into a central location.”
― David Jenyns, SYSTEMology: Create time, reduce errors and scale your profits with proven business systems

“I just want to focus on two tools and what I believe you need to build a truly successful systems-centred business. 1) Systems management software 2) Project management software”
― David Jenyns, SYSTEMology: Create time, reduce errors and scale your profits with proven business systems

“it’s also probably unrealistic – and unnecessary – to ask your employees to reread the entire system every time they complete their tasks. That’s where your project management software steps in.”
― David Jenyns, SYSTEMology: Create time, reduce errors and scale your profits with proven business systems

“Just 20 per cent of the systems you create will provide 80 per cent of your efficiency wins.”
― David Jenyns, SYSTEMology: Create time, reduce errors and scale your profits with proven business systems