In a certain period of time, enterprises will encounter the bottleneck of development. The operating cost has been rising, but it is difficult to find the "location" of the cost. We call it "invisible cost".
1. Meeting cost
The operation of an enterprise is nothing more than a race against time. Conference is a collective activity for enterprises to solve problems and issue instructions, but it is also a high-cost business activity.
However, the managers of many enterprises have not mastered the skills of meeting, and there are "six noes" phenomenon of "no preparation before the meeting, no theme during the meeting, no implementation after the meeting, no need to attend the meeting, no control over the time, and no limit to the speech".
2. Purchase cost
Once upon a time, when an enterprise was working on a new project, the daily operating cost of the project team was 80000 yuan. However, on the eve of the product launch, the purchasing department spent a week to purchase more than 100000 yuan of packaging.
The reason is to find low-cost suppliers to save procurement costs.
As a result, the entire marketing team could not sign a contract with the customer for another week.
3. Communication cost
In most enterprises, you will find that in the process of communication between colleagues, there will be serious distortion, or words fail to reach the meaning, or answers are not what they ask, or hundreds of people understand
This phenomenon is too small. It makes many processes invalid or loses many important opportunities.
If it is too big, it may bring hidden dangers to the enterprise. This is a typical cost increase caused by poor communication.
4. Overtime cost
Many bosses always believe that it is a professional phenomenon for employees to "work overtime" after work. However, this may imply a high cost.
The reason for working overtime is not necessarily that the work task is too heavy, but that the employees' work efficiency is low. If the objective work task is really heavy, then the enterprise should supplement new personnel and posts in time, which is the real development and progress.
Overtime consumes more employees' energy and physical strength, seriously overdrafts employees' health. In the long run, some important employees will not be able to give full play to their efficiency for a long time, and there are hidden dangers that will bring burden to the company. For example, some mechanical operators will suffer mental disorders and accidents due to long-time overtime, and the enterprise will pay a heavy price for this.
5. Talent flow cost
The loss of employees, especially old employees, will undoubtedly bring enterprises several times higher expenditure than their income.
Many small businesses have been operating for many years, and you find that they have always been such a small team. Except for the boss, there is no employee left from the beginning of the establishment of the enterprise.
This may be an important reason for its failure to develop.
6. Post dislocation cost
There is a famous saying in human resource management that "put the right people in the right place".
Unfortunately, there are not many enterprises that can really do this.
7. Process cost
There are too many disordered enterprises because of processes, which is a common problem in enterprise management. For enterprises with slow development, their processes must be chaotic or unreasonable.
They bear a high cost for this, but have been blind to it.
8. Stagnant resource cost
Stagnant resources are the most widespread "hidden costs" in enterprises, such as idle equipment, overstocked inventory, low utilization jobs, idle funds, shelved businesses, etc.
Although they may not continue to consume the investment of the enterprise, they are part of the enterprise assets, and the enterprise will bear the hidden costs such as interest.
9. Corporate culture cost
Many people may disagree that corporate culture will become a cost, but this is the case.
We will find that the employees of some enterprises are depressed and extremely inefficient. No matter how excellent the employees are, they will either leave or become like that in the near future.
We have to say that this is an "environmental" problem. And this "environment" is the corporate culture of this enterprise.
10. Credit cost
We found that many enterprises are used to defaulting on the payment of suppliers, employees' salaries, withholding from others, bank loans, etc. we believe that this can reduce the pressure on working capital of enterprises.
But in the long run, this will become a serious hidden cost of enterprise operation.
11. Risk cost
It is the dream of every entrepreneur to push the enterprise to the fast lane. But the risk coefficient also increases synchronously.
Especially for large and medium-sized enterprises, although they have developed rapidly, their income is rich.
But once there is a crisis, it will be disastrous.
12. Entrepreneur cost
There is a good saying, a soldier will bear a nest. Entrepreneurs are like the leaders of an army. They are the employees who pay the highest cost.
The bosses of many private enterprises have turned themselves into the "emperor" of the enterprise. They have the final say in everything, and all employees have become executive machines.
However, the defects of entrepreneurs' personal factors will increase the heavy cost burden for enterprises.
It can be seen from the above that enterprises often have to bear a lot of burdens in operation and management. Finding and effectively reducing the above hidden costs may be a powerful measure for enterprise progress