I think that whenever you are considering a merger with another company, or to acquire another company, or any other sort of organisation, you should first look at the staffing of that company. The people I have quoted above write articles about mergers and acquisitions, and I have taken these quotes from just one issue of the magazine 'Acquisitions Monthly'. They all bear heavily on one aspect - Research the company. Don't take their image or hearsay comments as a true representation. Look as deeply as you can at the basic core of the company - the staffing system. You can take its products and its equipment and set up the business anywhere you like, but you are also 'buying' the staff, you are buying their training, their expertise and their potential. You want to buy their assets. The one thing you do not want to buy is their liabilities. If you don't research the staff, "you will end in tears".

Our computer models can research the staff quickly and efficiently, it will benchmark the acquisitions staffing resources against your own, even better, it will benchmark their staffing against the 'ideal'. It will create the staffing model before and after acquisition. You can then assess the current state of affairs, determine whether important labour or financial information is being disclosed, or hidden from view. (Would you know how to 'hide' staff) You will be able to 'de-bug' the staffing system, and rebuild it in accordance with your requirements, your regime, your methods and means. You can impose your payrates, your staffing levels, your corporate philosophy and assess the future viability and profitability of the new enlarged organisation.

Our staffing computer models are being used by numerous organisation: The layouts and reports are simple to understand by HR and Personnel departments, and by Senior Managers and Operational Managers. It will give you analytical and investigative skills far in advance of your competitors.

As you look around, what tools do you have for assessing Other Companies. P ractically none. You have EVA analysis, Accounts and hosts of Advisors producing business plans, cash flow analysis, forecasts, and the like. But there is virtually nothing that analyses whether they are correctly staffed, over staffed or under staffed. We can run their staffing requirements against the numbers employed and tell you how much the operation should cost to run.

What can you lose by calling me to find out more, absolutely nothing.

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