Carpédia works with many companies to help improve the practical management of profit delivery. We do not provide broad or general strategic planning sessions. Our work in this area is focused on helping companies achieve specific profit or cash flow objectives over a one to three year time frame. Consistent with all the services we provide, our strategic projects must generate measurable financial results within 12 months.

Our approach is to help identify specific profit objectives and the projected gaps facing management. We break down a company’s profit picture into revenue and cost drivers that connect the financial world with the operating environment. For revenue gaps we identify where volume or price needs to change and then break these down into more specific levers such as new business required versus improved retention, price yields versus product or service mix. For cost gaps we determine the key underlying drivers such as material or labor and then assess whether improvements in productivity will offset anticipated shortfalls. From the analysis we develop and implement short and mid-term product and method changes in order to close the gap. Results, as always, are measured in the financial statements.