• Reducing direct costs
• Attacking overheads
• Managing complexity
• Purchasing and procurement
• Profitability
• Pricing
• Economy and efficiency

Costs

It is all very well to adjust the plans, processes and relationships of the organisation. But you need to look at costs first. If a business is to stay competitive, all its managers have to understand costs, and to manage them well. We show them how. Any enterprise that takes its eye off profit will end up making a loss. So take profits first. Then look at what’s left. That’s what the business can afford.