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Monday, November 22, 2010

A Ringi Process with Flexibility

Your division's campaign plan is coming together. It's full of exciting original ideas. It's the marketing division's pride and joy. You're about to bring it to a complete...And then someone remembers, "Oh, this proposal was supposed to obtain the sales division's approval in a ringi process."

The truth is that it is difficult to define a workflow that allows you to flexibly change or add routes to a ringi process.




The below workflow should work if you want a flexible ringi process—One in which, say, you can send a ringi-sho from the marketing division to the sales division.

By the way, in this workflow the ringi-sho cannot be sent back from the board of directors, which means that if it is not approved it will be rejected (not returned for revision). This is because as a company it's important to keep a record of rejections, too.