{"id":1041,"date":"2011-09-25T18:13:57","date_gmt":"2011-09-25T18:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saasoft.com\/blog\/?p=1041"},"modified":"2011-09-25T18:13:57","modified_gmt":"2011-09-25T18:13:57","slug":"cutting-the-cost-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hcse.blog\/?p=1041","title":{"rendered":"Cutting The Cost Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>We are in now in cost cake cutting times! We are being forced by financial reality to tighten the fiscal belt until our eyeballs water – and then more so.<\/p>\n

The cost cake is a mixture of three ingredients – the\u00a0worthwhile, the necessary, and the rest – the stuff that is worthless and\u00a0not wanted –\u00a0the worthless stuff, the unhealthy stuff, the waste.\u00a0\u00a0But it costs just as much per morsel as the rest.\u00a0And\u00a0there is a problem – all three ingredients are mixed up together and our\u00a0weighing scales can not say how much of each is in there – it just tells us the total weight and cost.<\/p>\n

If we are forced\u00a0to cut the cost of the cake\u00a0we have to cut all three. Our cake gets smaller\u00a0– not better –\u00a0which means that we all go a bit hungrier.\u00a0Or as is more likely – the hand that weilds\u00a0the knife will cut themselves a full slice and someone else\u00a0will starve.<\/p>\n

Would it not\u00a0be better if we could separate out the ingredients and see them for what the are – worthy (green), necessary (yellow) and the\u00a0worthless waste (red) – and then use the knife to\u00a0slice off the\u00a0waste?\u00a0 Then we could mix up what is\u00a0left and share out a\u00a0smaller but\u00a0healthier meal.\u00a0 We might even re-invest our savings in buying more of the better ingredients and bake ourselves a healthier cake.\u00a0We would have a choice.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If we translate this culinary metaphor into the real world then we\u00a0will see the need for a\u00a0way of separating and counting the cost of time spent on worthy, necessary and worthless work. If we can do that then we can\u00a0remove just the worthless stuff and either reduce the cost or\u00a0\u00a0reinvest the\u00a0resource in\u00a0something more worthwhile.<\/p>\n

The problem we find when we\u00a0try to do this is that our financial accounting systems do not work this way.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0closed door to a healthier future is staring us in the face – it is\u00a0barn-door obvious –\u00a0we just need to design our accounting methods so that they can do what we need them to do.<\/p>\n

What are we waiting for?\u00a0\u00a0Let us\u00a0work together to find a way to open that closed door. It is in all of our interests!\u00a0<\/p>\n

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We are in now in cost cake cutting times! We are being forced by financial reality to tighten the fiscal belt until our eyeballs water – and then more so. The cost cake is a mixture of three ingredients – the\u00a0worthwhile, the necessary, and the rest – the stuff that is worthless and\u00a0not wanted –\u00a0the … <\/p>\n

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