Thursday, May 29, 2008
Linked to Atlas
This is nice -- Atlas Wholesale Food Co. added a link to the blog on their homepage! Networking and keeping in touch with the makeover sponsors and others who crossed their paths this year will be important for the makeover companies and the Adams Fellow. Both Mike Kotsis and John Kohl from Atlas are on www.LinkedIn.com. As the price of gas gets higher and higher, and the business world keeps going global, we're all going to rely more and more on social media to stay connected.
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How did the business makeover help Atlas? Were there any successes realized?
Mike and I felt that the entire makeover process was a valuable experience for everyone in our organization. It is tough to quantify the value we received from each business that was involved in the process- we have broken down the projects that we worked on throughout the process to give you a better idea of how each business helped our business. I hope this helps you to get a better idea of the makeover process.
1) TAB – Carl
a. Biggest Immediate Impact - better communication among owners, and forced us all to sit down on a regular basis and go over strategy.
b. Created personal & Business Visions
c. Functional Organizational Charts
d. Job Descriptions
e. Performance Review Templates
f. Company Goal Prioritization
2) Western Creative – Mark Young
a. Got us to accept Credit Cards from our customers
b. Developed a customer survey to find out the customer’s biggest challenges.
c. Coached us to better understand the roles Mike and I need to do to make our company successful.
3) DKSS – Ursula
a. Financial succession planning - Business valuation methodology
b. Went through 2006 and 2007 financials in great detail.
c. Introductions to property tax appraisers, 401k advisors
4) Foster Swift – Frank Seyferth
a. Succession planning
b. New buy sell agreement
c. Legal work – set up new LLC and structure the property
d. Rebuilt the property leases
5) Verbalwise – Tamme
a. We rolled out our formal job descriptions and performance plans for employees.
b. Communication training, developed accountability for different functions of the business.
6) Foster Swift – Rebecca Davies
a. Rebuilt our entire employee handbook and limited our liability
b. Rebuilt our non-compete, non-solicitation, and confidentiality agreements
c. Consulted & coached us with specific situations – hiring, firing, discipline
7) UHY Advisors – Alan and Dawn
a. Employee labor grid- Created an amazing tool that broke down the true cost of every employee per department. We use this every time we look at new opportunities for the business.
b. Fixed Costs per line item category
c. Combined above to detail out our cost per delivery
d. Helped us to identify our most / least profitable routes
8) Microsoft
a. Donated 10 copies of MS Vista Premium edition
b. 10 copies of office 2007
c. Small business server and 10 licenses
9) Mastermind Solutions – Renee
a. Created structure & documentation of our HR Processes, created a central binder for all of our HR documents. This binder included interview templates, personnel files, background checks, new hire process
10) Map Solutions
a. Analyze the warehouse layout
b. Implemented a time clock in the warehouse to time warehouse times to pick orders.
c. Forced us to create a warehouse map, and eventually it lead us to develop a new slotting location system.
11) Henessey Capital – Jeff Wright
a. Educated us on lines of credit
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