Improve Your Ability to Manage Costs

Problems calling for better management of costs:

• Growth in overhead costs
  Audio Tip: Cost Management and Overhead Costs
  

• Low Returns on Investment compared to industry competitors
  Audio Tip: Cost Management and Low Returns
  

• Stagnant or falling margins despite growth in the business
  Audio Tip: Cost Management and Stagnant Margins
  

• Lagging investment in new technologies
  Audio Tip: Cost Management and Technology Investment
  

• Slow adoption of new approaches to managing functional costs
  Audio Tip: Cost Management and New Functional Cost Approaches
  

• Inability to keep pace with product improvements for customers
  Audio Tip: Cost Management and Product Innovation
  

• Poor Economies of Scale
  Audio Tip: Cost Management and Economies of Scale
  

Manage Costs Effectively

• Benchmark
  best competitors
  

  • Financial gap

  • Rates and management approaches

  • Customer mix

• Audio Tip: Benchmarking the Best Competitors

• Develop
  your own
  unique approaches
  

  • Typical costs

  • Productivity

  • Economies of Scale

• Audio Tip: Reducing the Unit Cost of a Product

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