ACORN CONSULTING INC
Welcome to www.AcornConsultingInc.com.
My name is Don Burrows. Working in Spanish as well as English, throughout Latin America and across the US, I have been a senior human resources professional for about three decades.
I do not do administrative HR.
Rather, I view HR as a profit center whose reason for existence is to create custom solutions to business problems that are hurting a company’s bottom line.
My core belief is this:
Human Resources must cut costs and improve profits.
Otherwise, what’s the point?
Startlingly, research shows that about 80% of all mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures either fail or else fall very far short of being the successes their architects expected them to be.
In other words, they fall flat on their assets. And of course, when that happens, money goes down the tubes, as do people’s jobs.
What’s the problem?
Lack of balance is the problem. A Due Diligence process that delves deeply into the LEGAL and FINANCIAL side of a deal while all but ignoring the PEOPLE side of the deal is the problem.
It is a matter of using both left-brain and right-brain skills.
Assessing legal and financial issues of a merger, acquisition or joint venture require left-brain skills.
Assessing people situations requires right-brain skills.
When the architects of a deal rely almost exclusively on left-brain skills that yield primarily financial and legal data, and only superficially consider the right-brain people aspects of a deal, it is fair to say they are doing their Due Diligence with only half a brain.
And they are getting predictable results.
Please study the following slide and I believe that point will become clear. You’ll find more information if you’ll click the OVERVIEW link to the right.
Completed as part of the Due Diligence process for a merger, an acquisition or a joint venture, the People ProspectusTM will provide investors with a People Balance SheetTM to accompany the traditional financial balance sheet.
With two separate balance sheets, the decision-makers will have the benefit of full disclosure and a complete Due Diligence and will then be able to make informed decisions to proceed, back away or renegotiate a better price or terms.
The process is equally valid and applicable when senior management wishes to have an independent, neutral third party conduct an Organizational Health CheckTM of their own company.
Please call 425.231.0085 or email Don@AcornConsultingInc.com to discuss.
Thank you.
Don Burrows
Detect People Problems Before You Invest™
