What is the focus of Southern Business Research Management Consultants?
The design and installation of management systems that result in increased productivity and reduced costs. 2. Isn’t that concept rather out-of-date? Business process re-engineering, downsizing, right-sizing, customer relationship management, value chain analysis have all been touted by the management consultants… True, BPR [business process re-engineering] and the others have all had their turn at being flavor-of-the-year. And they have been relevant – for some companies…at some times… But, they all address issues from a senior management / executive management, even the Board level. [After all, the consultants who coin these approaches tend to look for BIG contracts – the size of contracts that executive management can authorize and perpetuate.] When we first started in this arena, productivity was a big issue throughout America and the rest of the industrialized world. So was profitability… and when you can’t improve profitability by increasing revenue [like it appears that y
