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By documenting your business you communicate to your peopleexactly how your business operates and what work needs to becompleted by Employees filling the Positions in yourbusiness.

It is vitally important to have your business documented ifyou are looking to sell your business or looking to secureexternal funding. Well written and maintained BusinessSystems and Documentation adds great value to your businessand will contribute to you getting more money when sellingor sourcing external funding.

Important information in your business needs to be recordedand communicated to your employees in a consistent way. Thisinformation should include.

- Strategic Objectives.
- Marketing Plan.
- Company Policies and Procedures.
- Position Contracts.
- Business Systems Documentation.
- Operations Manuals.

Only one version of information should be made available inyour business. It is important to have only one version toensure that all employees have access to the most up to dateconsistent information.

Access to critical documents should be controlled, Documentsshould be made available only to Employees who need to haveaccess. You should use a tool that allows you to easilycontrol access to information and allows you to track whenchanges have been made and who has made the changes.

Documents and Data should be maintained on a secure centralserver with a data backup and recovery plan in place.Documents should not be stored locally on employee PC*s. Thereasons for this are numerous including avoiding the loss ofdata through hardware failure or theft.

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