Over Redundancy in Business - You Don't Need to Specify That Your Drive-through Order is 'To Go'

The need to have back up plans and disaster preparedness in business is paramount. If you ask anyone in IT person about backups they'll tell you that they specialize in planning for the worst case scenarios. And in the information technology world redundancy is survival.

But let's talk about your other business procedures and how the work flow happens in your offices, departments and on the front lines. Have you ever considered when redundancy becomes pure and unadulterated bureaucracy?

It makes sense to have a paper trail in this world of ours, now that does not mean you cannot run a paperless office and still, have the paper trail, it is possible to have checks along the way without stacks of paperwork. However, if you have multiple employees signing off on the same thing before it advances then there comes a time when everything is bottlenecked and slowed down.

Consider if you will a modern day factor or assembly line; if you stop the flow because you have to wait for approval from yet one more employee, everything stops or has to re-adjust to continue the process. You must think of your paperwork flow in the same terms as you would in any other part of your business.

Philosophically speaking; over redundancy in business is a sign of bureaucracy and that means a lack of efficiency. So, to put this in laymen's terms; You Don't Need to Specify That Your Drive-through Order Is 'To Go,' as a famous comedian once said.

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Over Redundancy in Business - You Don't Need to Specify That Your Drive-through Order is 'To Go'