Cost Optimization Programs are hard to manage, sustain, and often tend to fall short of delivering the promised value. The failure could be attributed to many reasons—including lack of clearly delineated objectives, failure to account for operational difficulties, internal resistance to change, trying to cut corners from everywhere, not paying attention to planning optimal utilization […]
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Strategic Cost Reduction Primer: A Systematic Approach to Transforming Costs
Contributed by Mark Bridges on April 3, 2019 in Operations & Supply Chain, Strategy, Marketing, & Sales
Humanist Values Trump All Others
Humanist values are universal and trump all others as an overriding principal of conduct in business relations. As a strategic alliance expert who makes his living designing and optimizing international ecosystems, I often come across the issue of “cultural differences.” How do we achieve maximum efficiency and optimal team work across vast areas of beliefs, […]