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How to solve the problems related to data in organizations. When they need it you can't find it easily. So many man-days/hours spent on finding them, cleaning them and verifying them to be presented to the top management. Top management is frustrated! Quality of decision making at each level largely depends on the quality of systems we are using to keep our data.

How systems should be nurtured from the begining. ? Planning and initial preparation is to sustainable results. Unfortunately, this is an area most Sri Lankan domestic companies wouldn't want to pay much attention. Nonetheless, if these initial phases are not guided properly, management face resistance within organisational hierarchy to later decisions to maintain, upgrade and standardize systems be it simple operational discipline, a management standard, a fully fledged ERP system, a merger or an entry into a different market.

Key challenges for the top management is, how to adopt the introduced values into the organisation hierarchy, operational practices and management practices. Remember the word "adopt". Yes, you must properly adopt it.

Designing and organizing processes in an organisation cannot start without proper analysis of the following,

1. Understand the Business model
2. What business are they in
3. What Product profiles are they offering
4. Customer profile
5. Important stakeholders
6. How the orders are processed
7. How the purchases are done
8. Mechanism for quality
9. Structure of the organisation
10. Approval systems in place

Map the entire system of the organisation considering the structure because everything must fall in line with the structure and strategy of the organisation. Don't worry too much on the rational planning model or any sort of strategy formulation mechanism is in place or not. As you progress on capturing data of the organisation you will get to know the elements of strategy.