Bureaucracy as Active Ingredient

Re:Bureaucracy as Active Ingredient by AmericanChopper on Friday August 31, 2018 @01:30AM (#17883182)

I’ve always seen bureaucracies as process design for people that are bad at process design.

I work in a very compliance heavy environment, and we run an “agile” team that ships as often as 10 times a day. We have easy audits and no compliance issues because we invested in good process design. A company we’re quite close with has the same compliance requirements, and their shipping process involves printing, signing, scanning and filing excel sheets. It’s not like we’re vastly better at our jobs than they are, we just designed far better processes.

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Re:Bureaucracy as Active Ingredient by lifeisstillgood on Friday August 31, 2018 @02:14AM (#17883316)

Can you indicate what industry ? Or even what level of process (if it's just auto checking we have filled in the right sections on form 1, or more complex?)

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Re:Bureaucracy as Active Ingredient by AmericanChopper on Friday August 31, 2018 @02:35AM (#17883407)

For us, PCI with a multi-billion transaction volume, SOC 2 and ISO27k.

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