Social Networking

Embrace it!  “Social Networking”  is for businesspeople and it’s here to stay.  Those not “wired-in” will get left behind.

Employee Reductions-Be Careful

Astute and thoughtful cost cutting in times of crisis are appropriate and necessary, but be wary of losing key knowledge that may have taken years of  training and experience to fully develop.  And, that would be challenging to replace.

College Football & Congress?

College Football & Congress?

Congress takes up hearings on fairness of the College Bowl Championship Series (BSC). A government bailout of another failed process?

It’s the operations stupid

Our approach is holistic: To rapidly understand, manage, and fix the operations – work ourselves out of a job as expediently as possible – leave with the business in better condition than when we arrived – and don’t cripple the enterprise with fees.

Financial analysis tells me where the business has been and where it’s going if its operations are not fixed – irrespective of the business product or service. We believe that financial analysis should never be the raison d etre for any engagement. Hours spent preparing reams of financial data and forecasts, no matter how astute, are likely not going to solve what got the core business into trouble in the first place.

In our view, with the exception of radical balance sheet debt restructuring, fixing the financials never fixes the business.

The point is: bad operations, including lackluster teamwork, an unsustainable culture, and poor quality, whether in product or service, have financial ramifications not vice versa. And in our experience, a shocking and profound result occurs when you fix the core business operations - the financial picture improves!

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