So you have decided to build a task library for your process and project work.

Ten good reasons

Let’s start with the reasons for doing this in the first place, as this may not be an insignificant endeavor, requiring a lot of thought and resources.

Ten good reasons which can justify creating a task library include:

1. Demand strategic management goals of cutting costs, improving efficiency or meeting government or industry standards
2. Ensure quality standards are being met
3. Provide guidance for existing and new employees to follow a specific work pattern or activity
4. Clearly illustrate what should and should not be the outcome of a specific task or decision and what to do based on that result
5. Improve organizations competitive position in the marketplace
6. Develop an ongoing quality and process improvement culture and method in your organization
7. Shorten training cycles
8. Automate routine tasks
9. Share institutional knowledge amongst all staff members
10. Change current operations to permit rapid scaling and expansion around standardized processes. (e.g. Franchising)

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