Cut Costs Not Corners by Colin Barrow

Cut Costs Not Corners by Colin Barrow

Cost cutting is an issue for every manager and executive at every level in every company, large or small, public or private sector. Junior managers who are proactively tight on cost are learning good habits for the future, ones that will bring them recognition and advance their climb up the organizational chart. The HR department is now staffed with tough cost managers dealing with the most difficult cost category, people. Marketing departments now focus on how to get higher returns from less spend.

Cut Costs Not Corners has a coherent and structured approach to cost cutting as a permanent activity, combined with guidance on the practical steps to take and powerful international case studies. It covers strategic and tactical cost cutting options such as analysing space needs, buying technology for less, selling off redundant assets, reducing credit risk, reviewing distribution methods, sourcing new suppliers or consolidating existing ones, advertising for less, changing the route to market, travel and utility savings, minimising finance and tax costs, crisis measures - freezing recruitment, delaying pay rises, sell and lease back assets - keeping budgets rolling and using a daily cash flow model.

"Business professor Colin Barrow reveals the most effective ways to cut costs and outlines proven practices, tips and techniques to reduce expenditures in every area of your organizationHis numerous real-life case studies underscore the imperative of making cost cutting a consistent concern. getAbstract recommends Barrow's helpful, albeit basic, primer to fi rst-time entrepreneurs and small-business owners who need a lucid, straightforward guide to tackling costs. Getabstract, January 2011" Getabstract 20110101

Colin Barrow MBA was until recently Head of the Enterprise Group at Cranfield School of Management, UK, where he taught entrepreneurship on the MBA and other programmes. He is also a visiting professor at business schools in the US, Asia, France, Ireland and Austria. Previous books published with Kogan Page Ltd include The 30 Day MBA, The Business Plan Workbook, Financial Management for the Small Business, The Successful Entrepreneur's Guidebook and Starting a Business From Home (part of the new Business Enterprise series).

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ISBN 13	9780749459765
ISBN 10	074945976X
Title	Cut Costs Not Corners
Author	Colin Barrow
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Kogan Page Ltd
Year published	2010-05-03
Number of pages	184
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