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Profit Parasites:
 
“Profit Parasites” Consuming Life From Your Business? ©
 
Do not accept business as usual…!
 
Have any of the following situations we would enjoy turning your business around please call us:
 
Repeating the same work again and again
  High labor variance
Labor relations problems
  Union - unresolved grievance issues
Hire employees because they are a “Good Fit” but your business situation does not improve
  Employees that bring you business problems for which they cannot provide various alternatives or options for solutions
Lose “Tribal Knowledge” through employee attrition
  Rely heavily on “Oral Tradition” to pass along company knowledge
Service Level Agreement not meeting terms
  No vendor assessment approve process
Incomplete due diligence
  Decisions based on assumptions
Expect vendors to due the work correctly
  Outsourcing costs out of control
Outsourced project delayed
  Outsource programs and projects require rework
Poor communication
  Unspoken expectations
Rude immature management
  Higher incidence of work place accidents
Fighting - enraged employees
  Managers continuously find fault with subordinate employee’s performance
Declining Sales
  Decreasing Profits
Increasing employee injuries
  Employee vandalism and sabotage
Broken transactions
  Wasting resources
Unenthusiastic / Unchallenged / Idle Employees
  Breakdown in product or services to market on a timely basis
No set business process structure
  Missed opportunities
Broken goals
  Rapidly changing objectives
Employee friction
  Finding fault
Searching for an employee to blame
  Client/customer complaints
Violation of governmental regulations
  Lack of vendor structure and compliance
Failure to meet deadlines
  Too many employees calling in sick
Employee non-job related time on Internet
  Heavy employee turn over
Product recalls
  Service failure
Continuous rework of end work products
  Excessive raw material waste
Higher utility bills
  Increased office supply consumption
Loss due to all types of theft
  Incomplete projects
Failure to recognize loss, risk and exposure potential
  Wasted time
Unfinished programs
  Lack of internal audit and compliance
Lack of resiliency
  Collapse of robustness
Too much overtime
  Loss of response time
High facilities infrastructure maintenance
  Lost data and information
Cannot compete against low cost foreign labor
  Unable to retain business knowledge
If salary exempt employees are working more than 45 hours per week
  Difficulty finding and keeping good employees
Computer applications are not producing results
  Disrupted workflow
Changing processes
  No operations standards
Weak performance metrics
  Disorganized business
Difficulty setting up business
  Building in bad state of repair
Poor computer systems security
  Poor economies of scale
Flawed budgeting of money, time and resources
  No business planning
Reactive to distress
  No preventative action
Bad project and resource sizing
  Under or over funding
Value certifications over years of solid practical experience
  Excessive use of behavior interviewing methodologies
Too much concern if the candidate fits in rather than has the ability to get the job done
  Over use of temporary employees
A firm commitment to the belief in the concept of “Best Practices”
  Lack of “Root Cause Analysis” keeps your company plagued with errors
Outsourcing of key profit centers
  More in love with getting the project process completed than get the project work completed
Messy dirty office space
  Too much outsourcing important job functions
Financial confusion - bankruptcy
  Lost market share
Low sales force performance
  Over spending
Created Busy Work
  Excessive equipment failure
 
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