Instytut Reform Rynkowych
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Blockage Audit

Where is your board's time leaking?

Most companies in Poland do not lose money on bad investments, but on decisions that were never made. Boards can discuss a simple machine purchase for 87 days, while the competition takes their place in the market during that time. The Institute for Market Reforms enters your structure to check why processes are at a standstill. We don't look for culprits just for fun — we look for specific people and procedures that generate empty costs.

Hard data from the last 4 months

Our audit lasts exactly 14 business days. During this time, we analyze communication, board meeting notes, and the flow of documents from the last 4 months. We are interested in facts, not what managers say over coffee. We calculate precisely how many times the phrase 'it can't be done' was used without backing it up with calculations in Excel. The rules are clear: every blockage must have an economic justification, otherwise it is treated as profit sabotage.

  • Verification of 19 key contact points between departments.
  • Identification of 'veto for the sake of principle' that hinders development.
  • Measurement of response time to critical quotes.
  • Analysis of the last 12 large projects that did not come to fruition.

No more board vetoes

The Profit Roadmap provides no room for unjustified downtime. During the audit, we check if your leaders are actually managing or just guarding their seats. Plan ratification often gets stuck because one person in the structure is afraid of losing influence. We call it for what it is. It has happened that in production companies near Warsaw, we shortened decision-making time by 62% just by introducing simple argumentation rigor.

Honestly, we are not here to make everyone like us. If the audit shows that your long-time operations director is the main brake, we will write it in the report. Without fluff and without corporate niceties. You will get a blacklist of blockages and concrete solutions on how to remove them in the next 3 weeks.

"I was skeptical about this audit because I thought I had known my team for 12 years. It turned out that two key contracts slipped away because the legal department held the documents for 9 days too long for no reason. Now the rules are clear."
— Robert Kwiatkowski, President, Pol-Drew Sp. z o.o., November 2024

What will you receive after 14 days?

The result of our work is not a bulky folder that no one will read. We deliver a 6-page document with specifics. You will find a list of bottlenecks and a ready plan for their elimination. We will also calculate for you how much operational liquidity will increase if your people start sticking to set deadlines. This is the first step to making order prevail in your company, allowing for real expansion.

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