Challenge · Growth & scaling

We cannot grow without hiring more people

More volume takes more hands, because the work is not carried by the system.

Sound familiar?

  • More orders always means more hands
  • You turn work down in pressured periods
  • The growth is eaten by new payroll
Four different employees each carrying a tall stack of boxes, more volume taking more hands

What this is about

The orders are there. The hands are not

You can sell more. The question is who is going to handle it. Capacity resting on headcount means every extra order costs the same portion of manual work as the last one, so the wage bill rises as fast as the revenue, and the gain from growing turns out smaller than expected.

  1. Why capacity follows headcount

    The steps that repeat for every order sit with a person rather than in the system, so capacity equals the number of people at work. And the peaks arrive when several customers happen to order in the same week.

  2. What the staffing costs

    In the busy weeks the choice is between turning an order down and pushing your people. The customer you turned down rarely calls again, and the people you pushed are hard to replace.

  3. When more hands is the answer

    If demand, capital or the craft itself is the bottleneck, a system moves nothing. If you make every item by hand to the customer's measurements, more trained hands are the only way forward, and we will say so.

What you are after is being able to take on more without the staffing having to grow just as fast. Nobody becomes surplus to requirements: the repetitive part moves into the system, the rest stays with your people.

Do the sums backwards first

The fifteenth order of the day costs the same to handle as the first. That is where the sums are settled.

The safe route

How we start, without you committing to anything big

  1. Step 1

    Clarification meeting

    A short conversation about where there is most to gain, and what it is worth. Free and without obligation.

  2. Step 2

    Digital pre-project

    We look at which work grows in step with volume, and where the staffing is holding you back. You get a concrete recommendation with numbers behind it, and if it does not pay off, we say so. A fixed price that is offset against the first stage if you build on within 90 days.

  3. Step 3

    Development in stages

    We build in stages at a fixed price and take whatever pays for itself fastest first. After that, operation and support from the people who know the solution.

You can stop after each step without the effort being wasted.

What the solution usually consists of

We decide exactly what is needed together

Exactly what it takes, we work out together in the pre-project. A challenge like this one we usually solve with one or more of these approaches.

  • Digital advice Strategic use of technology and support for your processes, so you get overview, control and better insight into your own data. It is part of most projects.
  • Automation Letting the system take over the predictable, repeated steps so your people do not have to.
  • System development A system built around your own process, when no off-the-shelf product quite fits.

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Frequently asked questions

Should the business be able to grow without more hands?

A meeting without obligation, where we look at your concrete situation. You get a suggestion for the next step and a clear sense of whether it pays off. You talk directly to the people who build the solution.
  • A reply from one of us by the next business day.
  • A no-obligation review of your situation.
  • Clarity on which options are relevant to you.
  • A concrete plan, if you choose to go ahead.

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