Turnover is vanity, profit is sanity, cash is reality.
During an 18 Month period for TWB (30 employees), whilst the industry was in recession 1184 perceptions were gathered, 769 were closed out by creating 125 projects or actions. The result? Cash in the bank. TWB was subsequently sold in 2007.
The top 100 places to work consistently out perform S & P top 500 by an average 9.1% extra average return. They are last in to recession, first out! Why? Because they engage with their staff and realise the value of the corporate mind.
Manufacturers of Oceanographic Instrumentation
"Over the last three years, we have doubled turnover and more than doubled our profitability, with barely a 10% rise in staff levels"...
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“Akumen are by far the most effective people that we have ever worked with. In the four months that they have been with us we have made more progress than we had done for the previous five years"...
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"The challenge presented to Akumen was the collation and synthesis of stakeholder feedback from over 100 clinicians and managers, in order that this could be utilised in the development of the specification... I would recommend their services to others similarly grappling with how to utilise the volume of feedback that comes from true engagement in service redesign.”
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