Super Virus
Hey, Fortune America are you listening yet?
To Mr, Misses, Mrs. or Ms CEO:
For 20 years I have been
telling you that the time was right to commence structuring, testing and
implementing a new business model. One that was more flexible, less top heavy,
reduced gridlock yada...yada...yada... A business platform that generally made
more sense for today's global environment with it's rapidly expanding and
constricting fiscal sensitivities. Not that our economic foundation hasn't
always been one bad idea from caving in, but now with the clear and evident
understanding we are one natural catastrophe, or some other bizarre smackdown,
away from a disaster that would be the equivalent of an asteroid hitting
Manhattan having a second option in terms of how we construct our business operations
is a really good idea.
I thought that back then, and I
believe more firmly now that we can avoid more financial havoc, right our ship
and begin to recapture our market by simply tossing out our current idea of how
a Fortune level business should look and adjusting the picture to use models
that emulate the best of both worlds -small and big business. I am talking
about Tethered Communities™, our proprietary protocol for building seamless home to work
environments.
I built the largest ever work
from home (legitimate) calling company -sales and customer service- employing
over 500 people working from home- and this was just a few years before the
Internet phenomena. Not just because it could be done, but that we were
speedily heading toward a place where it would have to be done. I say this because,even
then without the tools and technology we have today, it was plausible.
Tethered Communities™
The concept is simple though
the execution is not. You’ll need people who are really smart -that's where I
come in. The concept, which would have stemmed the exodus of tens of thousands
of American jobs from being unceremoniously shipped overseas, is to take any
function that is conducted nearly or entirely over the phone – or can be
converted to function over the phone (sales, customer service etc.) – to then box it up or
deconstruct each element (hardware, software, emails, paperwork etc.)
then to unbox it or reconstruct the
function to be capable of being picked up and placed anywhere; making it
entirely portable while making the function more effective, less repetitive,
more efficient and less costly. You can even include the analysis and
re-introduction of extemporaneous conversations. Yes, you can actually create a
mathematical program to recreate the best possible application of any
conversation from all sides. You merely have to know how it is done. I’ve got
that covered.
The idea is to create a seamless home to work
environment. And please I am not talking about the current state of remote
work which by simple default means taking your laptop on the plane to catch up
on emails. This is more like the ad you see on television where a salesperson
needs to access something on the fly and yanks out his smartphone, which is way
smarter than any smartphone I know, proceeds to pull up in an amazing full 21”
screen graphics view, an Excel sales graph (you know with the 3-D bars) to
change one bar to show an increase rather then a decrease. Good thing he
finally thought of that at the last minute. Imagine showing up to a sales
meeting without good sales figures. Now I know why they call it a
smartphone.
But Tethered
Communities™ is a real-life situation where you intentionally decode the
function and all applications to re-create the function so you could
literally pick it up and put it down anywhere and it would process much faster,
with less redundancy, more efficiency and with greater flexibility.
Imagine, if you will, not
building a huge campus with several buildings, which then requires moving
several thousand positions to this location to take advantage of a temporary
tax break. Say instead you decided you only
wanted the very best people and you were smart enough to know you didn't want
to move everything to do that; because moving either for you as the company or
for the families of key employees is stressful, economically consuming and
always at the whim of the economy. Now suppose you could build your
company horizontally. That's right, instead of up -you build it
out.
Of course you couldn't do this
for everyone or everything. In fact it would only apply to something like 20 to
30% of the company (the jobs you outsourced to India or China). Continuing the
thought - you are now able to attract the very best talent in the areas you
Tether. They are 1099 so even though they are the best they will end up costing
you less and still make the good money they deserve. Overall the company spends
less money of peripheral costs as well; less real estate, hardware, software,
insurances, fixed and variable costs - you get the picture. Plus you get an
added bonus with this as well - you are now sleek and flexible.
It's the best of both worlds.
You get to have your huge army but you can train parts of it to be very
mobile, guerrilla-like and extensible. Relocation of company
parts becomes 30% easier. Costs for payroll drop 8-11% real percent points and
the work gets done by Americans who so badly need the work. This idea could
make you a hero or heroine.
The idea has risen to the
surface. We are able to toggle from real life to work and back again on any of
our handheld or laptop devices. There is only one problem and that is the
mentality and thinking that comes with the Fortune level mind. This is
pretty "out of the box" thinking. It can't be done by default. These
positions have to be carefully evaluated and every component and aspect
analyzed to insure you can recreate the experience in individual pockets that
are attached to your primary physical work environment. There
are all kinds of unique "environments" that can be built; people who
come in once a week, a month, by Web or in small satellites. But those are
merely final dressing points. You have to ask yourself if sending these jobs
overseas to call centers in foreign countries makes any more sense then
developing the culture of properly constructed and intelligently Tethered
Communities™ here in
America.
We have a very elaborate cost
analysis that we can provide to show you how much money you could potentially
save and how competitive this process can be compared to sending jobs overseas.
I know we are now looking at in-sourcing phenomena as Fortune Level companies
begin to realize the cost of jobs overseas is not measured simply a dollar amount
and even then it is becoming less expensive to bring these jobs home. Imagine
if we could make them even
more economical by
deploying Tethered Communities™. There are a slew of
cultural and personal reasons that make working here more logical for a Fortune
company - if they could make the dollars work. And that is my entire argument.
For the last ten years we have promoted and continued to
improve the industry's only and most elite tools for creating this timely and
amazing work process; the
seamless home to work environment; nTelgenz (analysis for this specific
purpose), Rganx (analysis for extemporaneous conversations), Tethered
Communities™the process by which all of this occurs (hardware, software,
emails, communications etc.). In fact, I am pretty certain that as a functional
and replete package with all the moving parts already preconceived and fully
engaged, we are the only company that comes in with the whole program and not
just a consulting approach.
The time is now!
Here’s where the commentary
ends and the instructions begin. Forgetting for the moment all your
bad decisions of the past, we are now faced with a terror so frightening that
the specter of it looming over our country right now is one that should strike
fear into the heart of every father, mother, son or daughter. We have been
staring down the barrel of dirty bombs, extreme Mother Nature attacks, rogue
empires with nuclear capabilities, unstable nations, economic insanity but all
that is kindergarten level threat compared to what is coming next.
We have finally uncovered it.
It was only a matter of time and we have just about run out of that. The Mother
of all bacteria is here. This is being termed the Armageddon or Apocalypse Bacteria
because we are nowhere near having anything close to combating this
if it becomes a pandemic. And it will if it escapes its confines. In
fact it may have already done just that. We know in these days and times the
worst news can travel in the air we breathe from England to Los Angeles in only
a matter of hours and that unintentionally.
What is your emergency
plan?
Tethered Communities™ should
be the business model of the future for so many reasons. Not the least of which
is continuity as a company and a community in the event of a airborne illness
that forced us to stay home for a certain length of time. We know of a half
dozen serious flues that could precipitate that
conclusion and now we have the Apocalypse Bacteria. When
we started to deporting our jobs I did a blog mathematically proving that we
could compete in the long run and still keep a good portion of our jobs here. I
even predicted that sending these jobs overseas would make cheaper products but
leave us with no money to purchase them.
For the record and simply put.
Tethered Communities™ is a process of analysis, observation, education and
allocation. It is a means of creating an alternative process for your vital
in-house job functions. A way to take an inside employee position and re-create
it as a mobile, seamless
home to work environment securing
1099 contractors; thus saving on multiple insurances, redundant work hours, IT,
real estate, management and a myriad of other incidental costs. It’s been 5
years and the situation has only become more complicated. I’m still here. I can
teach you how to go guerrilla get tactical, be flexible, cut costs,
improve revenues and put people to work -am I missing something? Or is this
a direction you simply cannot see your company occupying. Believe me
when I tell you - someone will. Maybe not through me but some competitor is
going to get this message and take it to market. And by the time you figure out
how they are doing exactly what I am saying here should be done, your move, if
you get to make one, will be an after thought.
It’s now 2013 – in March 2008
we wrote a blog “Is that a Light at the End of the Tunnel?” The
blog among other observations stated that the housing crash would starve this
country until 2012 and then drag us under until “we have a fiscal stall
due to overspending, unemployment and government debt. It will get so bad that
there will be no fix possible. In 2012 we will simply have to push a Fiscal
Reset Button”. I believe we are calling it the Fiscal Cliff. We called it
pretty close, didn't we? And we have one heck of an alternative solution that
can significantly reduce
your operating costs and put more Americans to work. Not bad for a
program, concept and idea conceived by 4 guys on a 4 day weekend in Vegas. You
can believe me when I tell you it wasn’t the only thing we were busy doing.
