Insights: Strategic Cost Reduction

Is the Industry Value Chain Depressing Your Earnings?

Industry value chains have become noticeably unsteady. They are subject to constant change driven by mergers, overlapping industries, blurred lines from new technologies, and disintermediation by new entrants. Within this context of […]

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How are supply and demand impacting your profits?

Market forces affect the equilibrium between supply and demand all the time. For instance, a typical situation of rising production costs drives excess capacity in the market and a shift in the […]

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Are too many product lines weighing you down?

Companies sell many products to capture a sizable portion of the market. In so doing, they can reach the limit of too many products and give rise to unintentional business complexity – […]

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How Can You Get More Value Out of Cost?

Companies are squeezed for profits all the time. Pressure comes from multiple fronts: customers have more information making pricing more transparent; product proliferation is increasing cost to serve; globalization is creating a […]

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Do You Know Why Your Organizational Costs Are Rising?

The costs associated with organizational alignment deal with two functions:  coordination and administration.  Coordination costs include resources dedicated to facilitating information sharing, knowledge transfer, and communication.  These resources may comprise teams, committees, […]

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