99% of companies focus on the Income Statement and pay no attention to the Working Capital they consume… Using only the Income Statement as a criterion, we might conclude that MERCADONA has very low profitability, with an Operating Margin of 3.6% on Sales—far below FREIXENET’s 11.0%… However, a fundamental pillar of MERCADONA’s business model is […]
The 360º diagnostic we conduct for a company at EYE OF WHALE, completed in one week, includes the creation of the “whale panel”: a dashboard outlining the company’s current areas for improvement and challenges. We organize all potential improvements into 16 categories: Strategy, Organization, HR, Value Creation, Control, Sales, Marketing, Sustainability, Planning, Production, Purchasing, Inventory, […]
At EYE OF WHALE, we consider that a consulting firm is a “service production plant”, where personnel costs represent 80% of total costs. Employees’ time is therefore a key driver to monitor the business. In a consulting firm, it is very common to feel that some clients generate losses, as they consume a lot of […]
En un mundo donde el tic-tac del reloj ⏰ dicta nuestras vidas, Bill Gates encontró en Warren Buffett algo más que un mentor financiero: un maestro del tiempo ⏳. Gates, quien transformó la tecnología 💻, se maravilló ante Buffett, el sabio de Omaha, que transformó momentos en legados 📚. “Cada segundo”, reflexionaba Gates, “es una […]