Operations finally has a standard.
Finance has the CPA. Project management has the PMP. Operators now have a standards body of their own.
Good operators had no way to prove it.
An operator can carry a whole company on their judgement for twenty years and still have nothing on paper that says they are good at it. Every other major business function has a standards body behind the title. JT founded the National Board of Operations Professionals so operations has one too.
Three places to start.
Each one opens nationalboardofoperations.org in a new tab.
Read the standard
Eight domains of operations practice, published in full and free to read.
Read it ↗ (opens nationalboardofoperations.org in a new tab)Check if you qualify
The credential is for people who already hold operational responsibility. A one minute check tells you where you stand.
Check in a minute ↗ (opens nationalboardofoperations.org in a new tab)Help set the weights
Working operators are rating the tasks that decide how much each domain counts. About twenty minutes, and your answers count.
Take part ↗ (opens nationalboardofoperations.org in a new tab)JT Taylor MS, MBA
JT founded both. Notebook of a COO teaches small business owners and operators how to run the work, free. The National Board of Operations Professionals is the separate standards body he founded to publish a standard for business operations and certify the people who practice it.
See the standard for yourself.
The standard, the eligibility check and the free courses are all at nationalboardofoperations.org.
The National Board of Operations Professionals is a separate organization founded by JT Taylor MS, MBA. It is not owned or operated by Notebook of a COO. It is in formation and holds no accreditation today.