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I'm thinking two things here.
The first is how to get a group of consultants together that know the green industry well enough to do this. That means to know more localized markets. It means knowing the local employment pool. It further means that they have to know the individual company's business plan before they could even begin to evaluate it. To sum it up, they have to be very astute and well informed.
The second is to find a company with leadership that is willing to be assessed. It further means that they have to be willing to pay to be critiqued. They have to feel like they are going to recover all of the expense of the evaluation and increase profits enough to take the chance and go through the hassle. Who here is ready to do that?
I believe that it would be a good thing, but I don't believe there is a hot paying market for this. I also do not think that you can easily assemble a squad of consultants that is going to walk into a landscape business and instantly be recognized as knowing more about how to make that company run better and more profitably than those that are running it (and footing the bill).
I do not know too many scapers that want direct hard constructive criticism from outside. Sure, they will go to seminars, take classes, hire consultants for specific subject areas (software or fert programs or equipment training). But, an overall evaluation is a little like that test the doctor does when you turn 40 only no one is nagging you to get it done (sorry about the male oriented analogy - think centerfold photo shoot for those that can not relate to the first one).
I just think it is a tough job to put a competent team together and even a tougher sell to get scapers to buy the service.
I could be way off.
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