“From a cost center to a profit center”

“From a cost center to a profit center”

What a nonsense.

That implies that your profit is based on your costs control. That, magically, when you know your costs (or audit or improve them or whatever), you’ll turn into profit.

It implies that costs is the basis for profit per default.

It also implies that to get to that profit, you need to be the most cost efficient and cost effective. That you rip off anything that is a cost.

It implies that you follow best-practices.

Bull.Shit.

That also implies that anything that is waste, inefficient, bold, not-safe, not-guaranteed, uncertain, new can not be part of what you do.

It implies you don’t innovate.

It implies that you can’t make profit if you disengage costs from price and profit.

And that’s not real life.