Commercial post mortem – now the problem is clear

 

The results of commercial post mortems leave the management and shareholders of troubled organisations asking “how did that go wrong?”

It is an incontrovertible fact that many companies fail to address problem issues early enough to avoid an oncoming crisis.

In reality the causes of the problems were readily visible.

The signs of a troubled business are all too apparent – these include lack of controls, lack of strategic vision, a demotivated workforce and obsolete or valueless stocks etc

Instead of grasping these nettles, often the preferred option is to engage in a variety of exercises ranging from ill judged acquisitions (think RBS/ABN), totally pointless projects such as rebranding or the launch of another product range destined to fail for the above reasons.

Inevitably the harsh realities come into play but for many companies it is at that stage too late in the day.