
- 256 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Addressing a topic of critical importance to every business, this book provides managers at all levels the tools to conduct a successful cost-cutting and productivity-improvement program. Cost cutting and improving productivity are objectives that have always been—and continue to be—critically important to businesses. Today, being efficient isn't simply "best practice;" it's essential to preventing layoffs and facility closures. In Cutting Costs: Successful Strategies for Improving Productivity, a certified management consultant with nearly four decades of experience presents his highly relevant and extensive knowledge to help businesses make significant improvements and be more successful. Providing a practical progression of information that is simple to understand and easy to put to use and benefit from, Fred H. Neu's advice and insights will be invaluable to all business owners, managers with budget responsibility, business finance and accounting professionals, management consultants, business school instructors, and business school students.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Effective Approaches and Getting a Program Started
- 3. Methods to Identify Opportunities
- 4. Apply Some Basic Common-Sense Axioms
- 5. Cost Avoidance
- 6. Selected Cost-Cutting Areas
- 7. Quality-Related Issues
- 8. Human Resources Involvement
- 9. Measure Results and Reward Positive Efforts
- 10. Concluding Comments
- 11. Examples of Successful Cost-Cutting and Productivity-Improvement Efforts
- Contributors
- Index