Recognizable?
Business is going well: plenty of work, steady growth, and satisfied customers. Yet CEO Erik feels that something is off. The support department receives more and more questions and complaints, new employees take a long time to find their way, and during every team meeting the same instructions need to be explained again.
Erik actually knows what’s missing. In his previous company, onboarding programs, a solid knowledge base, best practices and knowledge sessions were a natural part of daily operations. Internal and external knowledge were well organized. But now things are busy, too busy. There’s no time to set this up, and with so many smart people around, surely it will fix itself… he thinks.
It doesn’t. Within six months, a tangle of different working methods, documents and systems emerges. Everyone works hard, but on their own. The organization becomes more chaotic, questions take longer to resolve, and customers grow increasingly dissatisfied. Erik feels it clearly: we’re stuck. Instead of focusing on growth, he spends his time putting out fires and the joy in his work is fading.