Prevention is often the best medicine for lots of different very likely conditions in life. And you can transition that thought directly to a business perspective. In other words, if you figure out how to prevent frequent business adverse situations, you’ll never have to deal with the consequences of having to fix them later.
From a brick-and-mortar perspective, think about ideas like mold prevention, regular landscaping as a way to keep your area clean, making sure that parking lots never turn into danger zones, and never assuming that your IT structural components are going to take care of themselves. Those four examples should give you a few different ways to think about prevention as an ideal and budget-conscious solution to familiar business problems.
Preventing Mold From Starting
Where there is water, there will be mold. So, depending on the size of your building, what materials it’s constructed from, and what kind of weather you have, it’s very possible that many different secret corners in your store may begin growing mold. And these places aren’t going to be where people commonly are. Instead, they’re going to be in the dark corners that aren’t maintained as regularly. Regarding prevention, it’s not a bad idea to truly deep clean periodically and look around windows and doors after storms to see if there’s standing water anywhere to help out your cause.
Regular Landscaping
Have you ever seen a business that looks like there’s a jungle outside of it because of unkempt landscaping? You do not want to put yourself in that situation. You want people to look at the outside of your building and the property that you’re on and think to themselves how clean and organized the management staff must be that they have such a good-looking place. If you regularly do basic landscaping around your property, you’ll never have to hire anyone to do heavy fix-it jobs later.
Trouble with Parking Lots
Parking lots can be a tremendous problem for some businesses. If you don’t do the easy parking lot repairs as soon as they come up, like fixing small potholes, suddenly you have significant damage that occurs because the cracks get wider and start affecting greater areas. At that point, everything is much harder to deal with, and it looks bad in the meantime as well. Find small trouble spots immediately, and handle them quickly and the greater problems will ever happen.
IT Structural Components
It takes a lot to create a usable and consistent IT infrastructure for business. There are modems, cables, adapters, computers, routers – lots of expensive pieces of equipment that have to work together to make sure your business stays connected to the Internet and your client base. Once you set up though, you can’t just leave it there. You have to regularly maintain all of the parts both concerning hardware and software, and you have to inspect the cables on a regular basis to make sure no physical corrosion is occurring either. A breakdown in IT leads to a breakdown in business dealings.
Originally posted on April 30, 2018 @ 7:59 am