Stage one
One hour. No fee.
The first conversation has a single object: whether your company has enough time to recover to cover an audit. The answer can be no, and then we stop there.
What we discuss
Six questions, all of them about time.
This is not a presentation of our services. These are the questions from which the order of magnitude of the time lost can be estimated.
- How many office staff you have now, and how many you had two years ago at the same turnover.
- What you do personally, every week, and should no longer be doing.
- How long a piece of work sits still, on average, between being finished and being approved.
- How many systems an order touches from intake to invoice, and between which of them it is copied by hand.
- What cannot advance when one particular person is away.
- What is measured in the company today, and what is not measured at all.
What you take away
An order of magnitude, not a proposal.
At the end of the conversation we say, in hours per month and with the margin of error stated, how much we believe is being lost. It is an estimate made in two hours of conversation, not a measurement; the difference between the two is precisely what the audit is for.
- The order of magnitude of the hours lost monthly, with the two or three places where they collect.
- Whether an audit is worth it or not, and for what reason.
- Two or three things you can put right yourselves, this week, without us.
How it is held
The terms of the conversation.
At your offices or online, as you prefer. An hour, two at most.
It helps if both the person who runs the company and the person who knows the daily work take part. They are often not the same person, and the difference between their answers is itself a measurement.
We ask for no information about the company in advance and we sign nothing beforehand. If you would rather have a confidentiality agreement signed first, we sign one.
Arranging it
How it is arranged.
Write through the form, send an e-mail or call. We answer the same working day and settle a time.