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In the current business world, Internet and E-Commerce companies are expanding at an extraordinary pace. Many of these organizations have gone from the floor of the garage to publicly held corporations in less than sixty months. These companies have seen their staff size increase from several people to several hundred to several thousand in very short timeframes.
The informal environment gives way to the formal organization with centralized functions. Later, the centralized functions become both geographically and culturally disbursed with the accompanying problems. The customer/client base goes from a handful to hundreds or thousands. The products that were brought to market with the original owners' blood, sweat, and tears are falling on hard times due to quality or competitive issues. New products are late, laden with defects, and lacking robustness demanded by the market. Their once high-flying stock appears to be the headed for subterranean locations. Staff turnover is only under some level of control because of the IPO and the indentured servant status of so many of the employees awaiting their anniversary dates to exercise their stock options.
Yet the old, tired, worn-out techniques, processes, procedures, and tools that served the company so well in its' early days are still being used. Experts on specific tools, products, and functional areas have been hired but the company still operates like a V-8 engine with no timing belt. Things slap into each other, there is a lot of noise and energy being expended, but no movement appears to be happening.
These are the usual red flags of a company needing our assistance. Why pay outrageous hourly rates for the "Big Six" (or is it the Big Five, Big Four, Big Three?) consulting firms? Mardon provides our services at 55% of those "other guys". If you have a proposal from one of those "other guys", bring it to us and we will immediately cut 45% off of their per hour rates.
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