The Physics of Efficient Business Propulsion

The material cost burdens which hide in plain sight have two overlooked root causes:
– Addition Bias: the unquenchable cognitive preference to “add” when solving problems or improving situations—even when subtraction or doing nothing is obviously the more effective or rewarding response or the supporting data has been more favorably interpreted to.
– Relationship Induced Bloat: commitments every organization takes on from many clients who are indifferent to their relationship with your company, requiring your organization to compensate these circumstances by excessively accommodating request that could otherwise be discretionary client requests.

Years of committing capital this way produces substantial profit improvement opportunities lurking within the sedimentary layers of business complexity, which can now be revealed and surgically removed.