Driving Down Cost: How to Manage and Cut Costs Intelligently
- 3h 13m
- Andrew Wileman
- Nicholas Brealey Publishing
- 2008
Most business books talk about strategy, growth, organization, financial engineering; precious few talk about cost management, the most controllable-and often rewarding-part of the business. Wileman, a seasoned cost-cutting consultant with major corporate experience shows how to intelligently manage costs. This is a book for managers at every level of the organization. It is relevant to private sector and public sector organizations, and provides success strategies for large and small business alike.
About the Author
Andrew Wileman is a consultant to CEOs and board-level clients of large multinational enterprises. He manages projects covering strategy, organization, acquisitions and operational performance.
Andrew started his consulting career with Booz Allen & Hamilton in London. He went on to work with them in New York, and then with the Boston Consulting Group in Boston, in parallel with obtaining his MBA from Harvard Business School. He joined OC&C Strategy Consultants on its start-up in London and helped build it into one of the top strategy consulting firms, including developing the firm’s industry-leading retail practice and its Paris office.
Since the late 1990s Andrew has been working independently, as a consultant, interim manager and business writer, based in London. He is currently retained as strategy adviser to one of Europe’s largest building materials businesses; is a non-executive board member with an offshore software development business based in Bangalore; and is advising on several multi-year performance programs for businesses bought out by private equity. He also writes regular features and columns for Management Today.
In this Book
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The Cost Manager's Toolkit
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Good Cost Management
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Cost Leadership
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Techniques and Tactics
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People
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Suppliers
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Cost Cutting Case Study
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Wired and Global
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Lateral Thinking
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Cost Management as Strategy
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Cost in the Public Sector
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Conclusion—The Cost Manager as Hero
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The Cost Manager's Toolkit
