In design as in food, variety can be the spice of life. But in business processes, variety will slow you down and will confuse your customers. Neither is very good for a business. And it doesn’t matter what kind of business —manufacturing, construction, warehousing, service businesses, not-for-profits, sports, you name it … variation in a process is a killer because it makes it very hard to predict an outcome.
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