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Growth exposes whatever was held together with workarounds - usually right when there's the least time to fix it.
Growth exposes whatever was held together with workarounds — usually right when there is the least time to fix it. Nothing is broken enough to force the issue, and everything is slightly worse than it was.
The mistake at this stage is trying to fix all of it at once, normally by buying a large system that promises to. The businesses that get through this cleanly fix one thing at a time, in an order chosen by where the money is leaking.
Revenue is up and so is friction. The tools and habits that carried the business to this size are visibly straining, and there is less time than ever to do anything about it.
Work held together by spreadsheets and individual knowledge. More staff hired to keep up with data entry and reconciliation rather than with customers. Numbers that take days to agree on.
This ordering is not universal, but it holds often enough to be a good starting hypothesis, and each step is useful on its own.
A large integrated platform is a plausible answer and sometimes the right one. It is also the most common way this stage goes badly: a long implementation, a business that has to change shape to fit it, and a set of workarounds identical to the old ones by month eighteen.
What we would establish first is which of your processes are genuinely standard — those are worth adopting a product's way of doing — and which are the reason customers choose you. Bending the second kind to fit a package is how businesses lose what made them work.
At this size the biggest operational risk is usually not technology. It is that several critical processes exist only in one person's head.
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