Suppose the majority of the processes are manual at my business. The business systems are convoluted. My whole executive team is too busy and cannot undertake any business improvement work. I cannot invest in business improvement and seek outside help. Then, I am at the mercy of investors, government grants, or volunteers to rescue my business from deadlock.
It is not okay to be in such a state. As an executive, I must find a way out of this mess. The trick is to list all constraints (budget, internal resource time, and knowledge) and identify resources to invest in a coordinated way to break the deadlock. It is much easier to state than do. But one must do it because, otherwise, there is unlikely to have a business.
