Amtrak itself says the problem is that it is encouraged by Congress to run unprofitable trains, without commensurate resources.
The company's president, Fumio Ohtsubo, left, has said he wants to close unprofitable business lines, shift resources to those with growth potential and improve product quality.
Quite simply, unprofitable customers consume more resources than they pay for.
Your customer base, even if unprofitable, is not a resource your business can afford to squander.
But Mr. Wiedeking, analysts said, would have little tolerance for pouring resources into an unprofitable luxury car, especially since the Volkswagen-Porsche group already has several other premium brands: Porsche, Audi, and Bentley.
These weaknesses can be summarized as problems with all aspects of flock management, use of natural resources, and informal and unprofitable commercialization.
In a down economy, companies are more likely to view unprofitable software assets as a waste of resources than as an opportunity for future profits.
Though Creed insisted that the kids' meals themselves were "never unprofitable," producing them did tie up significant resources.
The idea is that managers seeing the whole company can direct money and resources to a division that, while unprofitable, may hold Corning's next big hit.
By that is meant essentially a public interest in allowing the economy to evolve flexibly, so that resources move from uses that have become unprofitable to ones that have a higher potential.
