If your company plans to develop CIM capability, standardization in a number of areas highly desirable. What should be standardized first? Why? What are some other areas in which standardization will be beneficial?

Answer:

While standardizing certain processes, areas within an organization we must first have an analysis of the usage of these areas and processes. These areas and processes should be carefully evaluated for their effectiveness towards standardization and then take appropriate decisions based on the evaluation of these elements. The areas and processes that have a higher degree of reputation and the qualifications required to perform the job are lower as well as the criticality of the job is high then such a process or area should be standardized first. This is because a highly critical area if standardized will provide us with more efficient results. Also, a high reputation would mean the job can be standardized and save the time and resources spent on the reputation of these processes. Hence, these types of processes and areas should be standardized first so that we standardize the repetitive, critical, and important aspects of the organization.

Areas that have a higher degree of repetitive work and lower productivity of employees or lower efficiency of employees would be beneficial with standardized processes. This is because standardization would improve the efficiency of the process and avoid redundancy associated with the process and man-hours, hence employees can now work on other important aspects than doing the redundant repetitive low productive work. Hence, these are some of the areas where it is a must to have an appropriate amount of standardization to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the processes or various areas of the organization.

Hence, this is how we should handle the standardization or processes or departments within an organization.