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Business Optimization Specialist is just corporate language for a person who makes your business the best it can be.
It’s easy to explain the basics of my method: feed the practices that improve profits and minimize operations that do little to boost the bottom line. Easy to say, easy to nod in agreement—but more challenging to actually accomplish.
How do I do it?
Here’s a peek at my three-part method.
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In the beginning
I begin with your profit/loss statement. As a rule, I need only a day or two to follow the money trails that give a more detailed picture of a company’s financial health than the barebones executive summary.
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Going on location
Decades of business experience have convinced me that an onsite visit is well worth every minute spent on location. To paraphrase the immortal Yogi Berra, “You can learn a lot by just observing.” Conversations with employees at every tier of the organization yield usable insights. It’s a simple fact of human nature that many are more comfortable being candid with a relative stranger.
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Time to SWEEP
Finally, we use my trademarked SWEEP™ method to implement profit-strengthening changes. One of the strengths of this method is that we begin by targeting a 1% to 3% improvement in numbers in each of the five SWEEP categories. Every team member can do their part to increase profits and no one division is doing all the heavy lifting.