Root Cause for Corporate Decline [SLAT99, S.19-52]

Successful interim manager need to analyze each interim assignment upfront.

As a very good starting point, you should check the thirteen principal causes of decline:

INTERNAL CAUSES

1. Poor management
2. Inadequate financial control
3. Poor working capital management
4. High costs
5. Lack of marketing effort
6. Overtrading
7. Big projects
8. Acquisitions
9. Financial policy
10. Organizational inertia and confusion

EXTERNAL CAUSES

1. Changes in market demand
2. Competition
3. Adverse movements in commodity prices

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