What is inefficiency costing you and your company?

Use PwC’s ‘sludge tax’ calculator to find out.

Diagnostic

April 6, 2024

Sludge, a term popularised by Nobel laureate Richard Thaler and Harvard Law School professor Cass Sunstein, refers to the bureaucratic inefficiencies and unnecessary obstacles within an organisation that hinder decision-making, innovation and reinvention. Use the tool above to calculate your ‘sludge tax’: the time and money organisational friction is costing you and your company.

Calculator illustrations by Aad Goudappel

Explore the June issue of strategy+business to learn about how to reduce organisational friction.

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