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The first responsibility of every professional, from whom you might request services, is to protect your shareholders and you, from yourself.  A consultant, who eagerly provides just the service that you request and does not consider what you really need, is doing you a serious disservice.  Customers always know well the highly undesirable symptoms that they observe, within their organizations.  But, they almost never know the causes of the undesirable symptoms, and just as rarely do they know how to eliminate those causes.  Therefore, at times the probability is somewhat low, that a customer's requested service is in the best interest of the customer.  
 
Today, the profitability of many companies depends on the speed and effectiveness with which these companies complete their product-development projects, their so-called IT projects, or the engineering-services projects of their clients.  These companies regularly exhibit a number of extremely undesirable symptoms, which many consultants attempt to treat with a variety of services.  The undesirable symptoms include the following: 
  • Projects that take entirely too long and, consequently, become far too costly. 
  • Productivity that doesn't budge beyond unacceptably low levels. 
  • Revenue-projections that often are not realized. 
  • Requests, for additional staff, which seem to appear continually and from all quarters. 
  • Opportunities that should be pursued but instead are lost. 

There is but only one underlying cause of all these symptoms, and there is one comprehensive solution, which removes the cause and eliminates all the symptoms.  PDI is all about helping you understand, both, the one cause and the solution.