Cost Reduction for Management Consultants & Managers

Description
What is the aim of this course?
Every company has to control costs in order to survive and prosper. Therefore, many firms on regular basis perform cost reduction projects. Cost reduction project may be part of a wider Performance Improvement Project or be a standalone project carried out only in one of the business units. Those projects are extremely interesting because you will be able to make a real change, create a new reality and improve part of the business or even the whole business. There are also very difficult as you have to not only analyze areas but also find ways to cut costs, improve the current situation as well as, on some occasions, implement the change. The skills that you will learn during this sort of projects will be also very useful once you move to work for regular businesses or set-up your own firm. In this course I will show you how to deliver such projects fast and efficiently. In this presentation you will learn the following things:
1. How to identify potential savings especially quick wins
2. How to optimize processes
3. How to analyze investments
4. How to carry out make-or-buy analysis
5. How to spend less