Relatively Lean
As this not-too-out-of-date blog post details, “My Company“, I work for Sensis Inc. According to this unscientific, but interesting chart from LinkedIn.com (computed from it’s membership data) we’re leaner than our fatty competitors. Our R&D to G&A ratio seems to be quite higher than most other “similar” companies. Encouraging, no?


Since Sensis is a private company, the compiler of this data must take the companies word for it, i.e. there are no objective public measures. I personally feel that Sensis categories a lot of stuff as R&D that is not really R&D…
I’m pretty sure that no one from Sensis was consulted on any of this data. I speculate that the data was auto-generated from the profiles of the 300+ Sensis people that are members of LinkedIn. You can get free charts like this (and other charts) for any company on LinkedIn – private or public. As a member you can also “subscribe” to companies and they become “pseudo” contacts. You’ll get notified of company updates on your home page just like those from your human contacts.
It’s getting harder and harder for groups, organizations, institutions, governments to keep secrets in this wonderful, interconnected world:
“Networks make organizational culture and politics explicit” – Michael Schrage