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This book provides a practical and user-friendly approach to successfully transform an organization into a lean organization throughout the business value chain. The author describes comprehensively how lean management principles enable organizations to concentrate on value-adding activities and processes to achieve a long-term and sustainable competitive advantage. The book shows how lean management principles are ultimately applied in industries and explores the concepts of Kaizen and Lean Management thoroughly. Kaizen and Lean Management are innovative and modern concepts that help organizations gain a competitive advantage. Kaizen is the permanent improvement in small steps, while Lean Management is a set of principles focusing on customer satisfaction. The foundation of these two concepts is grounded in the principle of eliminating waste and concentrating on value added processes for which the customers are willing to pay for. Through this, organizations will become more efficient throughout the value chain including internal functions, partners and suppliers, and will achieve a long-term competitive advantage.

Lean Management kompakt und auf das Wesentliche konzentriert!- Wirtschaftlichkeit und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit steigern- Kundenzufriedenheit erhöhen- Mit Beispielen und praktischen TippsMit Lean Management können Kosten reduziert und der wirtschaftliche Einsatz der verfügbaren Ressourcen nachhaltig garantiert werden – bei gleichzeitiger Erhöhung der Kundenzufriedenheit! Dieses Buch zeigt, wie Lean Management umgesetzt werden kann, welche Potenziale sich erschließen lassen und es vermittelt praxisorientiert die Methoden und Werkzeuge des Lean Managements.

The book provides a holistic and practical approach to lean management throughout the business value chain. The lean management framework and tools demonstrate the optimal design and use of methods, tools and principles for companies and organisations. The author describes comprehensively how lean management enables companies to concentrate on value-adding activities and processes to achieve a long-term, sustainable competitive advantage. A wealth of best practices, industry examples and case studies are used to reveal the diversity and opportunities of lean management methodologies, methods and principles. Moreover, the book shows how lean management principles are ultimately applied in industries like automotive, healthcare, education and services industries.

Profitable production planning is and will remain an eternal challenge to ensuring the prosperity and dignity of companies in a global market. Even though there are different approaches to achieving the target profitability through productivity in the production planning stage, these approaches do not guarantee consistent planning, creation, and sustenance of synchronous profitable operations for multiannual and annual target profit. In feedback to this predicament, Alin Posteucă develops a new system called speed-based target profit (SBTP). SBTP is the profitable production management and manufacturing improvement system that approaches production planning to achieve unit speed of target profit for target products through manufacturing cost improvement and bottleneck profitability control for maximum takt time. Managers and practitioners within manufacturing companies will discover a practical approach for cost down and cash up by applying a powerful operational profitable production planning formula to meet profitability expectations through productivity based on strong leadership with the help of a specific system for feedforward, concurrent, and feedback control. Therefore, the SBTP system in this book presents a holistic approach to profitability for target products and the development of its own mechanism since the acceptance of each order from customers to achieve continuous synchronization of all manufacturing processes to market requirements, profitability management, and profitable production planning. The uniqueness of the book is reinforced by a detailed presentation of the successful application of the SBTP system in two case studies, as a way of life and a unit speed of target profit improvement ethos at all hierarchical levels, in two multinational manufacturing companies operating in highly competitive markets in order to address the synchronous profitable operations for both the sales increase scenario and the sales decrease scenario. By adopting the SBTP system, your company will be able to consistently achieve unit speed of target profit in the bottleneck process for fulfilling annual and multiannual target profit as a unique and effective way through a new profitable production planning paradigm that operates according to its own production system.

Mit zahlreichen Fallstudien! Dieses Buch richtet sich an Führungskräfte des mittleren und Top-Managements, die keine klassische Controllingausbildung absolviert haben, aber aufgrund von Karriereschritten zunehmend mit Kosten- und Finanzinformationen konfrontiert werden. Ihnen wird ein breiter und zugleich tiefgehender Einblick in das Fachgebiet ermöglicht, wobei der Schwerpunkt auf den praxisrelevanten Aspekten wie z.B. dem Kostenmanagement liegt. Das modulare Lehrkonzept erleichtert das autodidaktische Aneignen der Inhalte.

In this book, first published in 1971, the author develops and tests a productivity system based on Added Value as the measure of company income and output. The theory behind the system is that the behaviour of a company can best be explained in terms of its need to create an income. From this, it follows that its effectiveness depends on the efficiency with which it uses all the resources at its disposal to create this income. If it is accepted that the need is to create an income, then the efforts of the employees, the objectives of individuals, the pricing procedures, and the control systems must be co-ordinated to achieve this end. This title will be of interest to students of management, economics, and business studies.

Lean Management kompakt und auf das Wesentliche konzentriert!- Wirtschaftlichkeit und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit steigern- Kundenzufriedenheit erhöhen- Mit Beispielen und praktischen TippsMit Lean Management können Kosten reduziert und der wirtschaftliche Einsatz der verfügbaren Ressourcen nachhaltig garantiert werden – bei gleichzeitiger Erhöhung der Kundenzufriedenheit! Dieses Buch zeigt, wie Lean Management umgesetzt werden kann, welche Potenziale sich erschließen lassen und es vermittelt praxisorientiert die Methoden und Werkzeuge des Lean Managements.

Health-Care Solutions from a Distant ShoreHealth care in the United States and other nations is on a collision course with patient needs and economic reality. For more than a decade, leading thinkers, including Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen, have argued passionately for value-based health-care reform: replacing delivery based on volume and fee-for-service with competition based on value, as measured by patient outcomes per dollar spent.Though still a pipe dream here in the United States, this kind of value-based competition is already a reality--in India. Facing a giant population of poor, underserved people and a severe shortage of skills and capacity, some resourceful private enterprises have found a way to deliver high-quality health care, at ultra-low prices, to all patients who need it. This book shows how the innovations developed by these Indian exemplars are already being practiced by some far-sighted US providers--reversing the typical flow of innovation in the world.Govindarajan and Ramamurti, experts in the phenomenon of reverse innovation, reveal four pathways being used by health-care organizations in the United States to apply Indian-style principles to attack the exorbitant costs, uneven quality, and incomplete access to health care. With rich stories and detailed accounts of medical professionals who are putting these ideas into practice, this book shows how value-based delivery can be made to work in the United States. This'bottom-up'change doesn't require a grand plan out of Washington, DC, agreement between entrenched political parties, or coordination among all players in the health-care system. It needs entrepreneurs with innovative ideas about delivering value to patients. Reverse innovation has worked in other industries. We need it now in health care.

Das Unternehmen hat die Aufgabe Gewinne zu erwirtschaften. Alles andere wäre nur ein unnötiger Geldwechsel. Ziel und treibender Faktor der Einführung der Arbeitsteilung im Einkauf sind die Freisetzung oder effizientere Nutzung von Ressourcen und der damit verbundene Kostenvorteil. Nachweislich weisen Unternehmen, welche die Arbeitsteilung im Einkauf anwenden, eine um durchschnittlich 25% verbesserte Nutzung aller Ressourcen (Mensch, Kapital, Zeit) auf. Dies ist ein deutlicher Beitrag zu Gewinnmaximierung des Unternehmens durch Optimierung der Organisationskosten des Einkaufs. Mittels der Arbeitsteilung wird der Einkaufsprozess effizienter durchgeführt. Die Einkaufsabteilung konzentriert sich auf ihre Kernaufgaben/ -arbeitsschritte und verlagert einfachere Arbeitsschritte. Mit der Nutzung von Ländervorteilen der auslagerbaren Arbeitsschritte entstehen zusätzliche Kostenvorteile. Kernbotschaft der Arbeitsteilung ist der Zwang zu einer Standardisierung, die Erhöhung der Automatisierung, die Neuanordnung der Arbeitsschritte für den Einkauf in werksgebundene, nicht werksgebundene und nicht mehr Einkaufsarbeiten und die Selbstoptimierungen im Arbeitsteilschritt. Mit diesem Buch erhält der Leser einen Handlungsweg, welcher nicht allgemein die Arbeitsteilung im Einkauf, sondern einen speziellen Management-Exkurs für die Sichtweise auf den Einkauf und die Beschaffung im Unternehmen. Das angestrebte Ziel des Buches, dem Leser einen praxisorientierten Weg in die Einführung der Arbeitsteilung, Hebung der Kostenvorteile und Gewinnung einer Ressourcenverbesserung aufzuzeigen, wurden erreicht. Ich wünsche Ihnen viel Erfolg und Freude auf Ihrem neuen erfolgversprechenden Weg zur Arbeitsteilung im Einkauf.

Dieses Buch führt in planungs- und kontrollorientierte Aspekte des strategischen Managements ein. Solche Aspekte werden in Literatur und Praxis meist unter den Bezeichnungen'Strategisches Controlling'sowie'Kostenmanagement'behandelt. Im Vordergrund stehen Ansätze, die sich um eine Quantifizierung strategischen Denkens bemühen und strategische Überlegungen transparent sowie möglichst rechnerisch nachvollziehbar machen wollen.

Stop Wasting Precious Time and MoneyYou have a complex problem at work, and you know the standard solutions: hire a consultant, enlist a superstar employee, have more meetings about it. In short, spend money and hours to dig your way out. But you've been down this road before—the so-called solution consumes your time, dollars, and resources, and yet the problem still reappears.There is a way out of this cycle. Organizational researchers Tanya Menon and Leigh Thompson, experts in collaboration and creativity, identify five spending traps that lead to this wasteful “action without traction”:The Expertise Trap: recycling old solutions on current problemsThe Winner's Trap: investing additional resources into failing projectsThe Agreement Trap: avoiding conflict to feel like a team playerThe Communication Trap: communicating too frequently over too many channelsThe Macromanagement Trap: assuming your employees don't need your directionMenon and Thompson combine their own research with other findings in psychology to provide strategies to break these unproductive habits and refine your skills as a manager. From shaping problems in new ways and learning from failure through experimentation, to stimulating productive conflict and structuring coordinated conversations, you can escape these traps and discover the value hidden in your organization—without spending a dime.

Mit Lean Management können Kosten reduziert und der wirtschaftliche Einsatz der verfügbaren Ressourcen nachhaltig garantiert werden – bei gleichzeitiger Erhöhung der Kundenzufriedenheit! Dieses Buch zeigt, wie Lean Management umgesetzt werden kann, welche Potenziale sich erschließen lassen und vermittelt praxisorientiert die Methoden und Werkzeuge des Lean Managements.Highlights- Wirtschaftlichkeit und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit steigern- Kundenzufriedenheit erhöhen- Mit Beispielen und praktischen Tipps

A practical approach to business transformation Fit for Growth• is a unique approach to business transformation that explicitly connects growth strategy with cost management and organization restructuring. Drawing on 70-plus years of strategy consulting experience and in-depth research, the experts at PwC's Strategy& lay out a winning framework that helps CEOs and senior executives transform their organizations for sustainable, profitable growth. This approach gives structure to strategy while promoting lasting change. Examples from Strategy&'s hundreds of clients illustrate successful transformation on the ground, and illuminate how senior and middle managers are able to take ownership and even thrive during difficult periods of transition. Throughout the Fit for Growth process, the focus is on maintaining consistent high-value performance while enabling fundamental change. Strategy& has helped major clients around the globe achieve significant and sustained results with its research-backed approach to restructuring and cost reduction. This book provides practical guidance for leveraging that expertise to make the choices that allow companies to: Achieve growth while reducing costs Manage transformation and transition productively Create lasting competitive advantage Deliver reliable, high-value performance Sustainable success is founded on efficiency and high performance. Companies are always looking to do more with less, but their efforts often work against them in the long run. Total business transformation requires total buy-in, and it entails a series of decisions that must not be made lightly. The Fit for Growth approach provides a clear strategy and practical framework for growth-oriented change, with expert guidance on getting it right. •Fit for Growth is a registered service mark of PwC Strategy& Inc. in the United States

For MBA or senior level undergraduate supply chain management courses. A Strategic Framework for Understanding Supply Chain Management Borne from a course on supply chain management taught at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, Supply Chain Management introduces high-level strategy and concepts while giving students the practical tools necessary to solve supply chain problems. The Sixth Edition weaves in compelling case study examples, providing students with clear insight into how good supply chain management offers a competitive advantage. On the flip side, students also learn the dangers of poor supply chain management, and how it can damage an organization's overall health and performance. Using a strategic framework, students are guided through all of the key drivers of supply chain performance, including facilities, inventory, transportation, information, sourcing, and pricing. By the end of the course, students will walk away with a deep understanding of supply chains and a firm grasp on the practical managerial levers to pull in order to improve supply chain performance.

An essential guide to bringing lean to your business and your life The Lean Book of Leanprovides a succinct overview of the concepts of Lean, explains them in everyday terms, and shows how the general principles can be applied in any business or personal situation. Disengaging the concept of Lean from any particular industry or sector, this book brings Lean out of the factory to help you apply it anywhere, anytime. You'll learn the major points and ideas along with practical tips and hints, and find additional insight in the illustrative examples. Lean is all about achieving the desired outcome with the minimum amount of fuss and effort, and this book practises what it preaches — concise enough to be read in a couple of sittings, it nonetheless delivers a wealth of information distilled into the essential bits you need to know. The Lean Book of Lean discards unnecessary specialisation and minute detail, and gets to the point quickly, so you can get started right away. Understand the basic principles of lean Recognise lean behaviours that come naturally Study examples of lean practices, policies, behaviours, and operations Apply lean concepts to both your business and personal life Lean is about being agile, efficient, responsive, productive, and smart. It applies to any and every aspect of life, from the factory floor to your morning routine. The Lean Book of Lean is the quick, smart guide to employing lean principles every day, so you can start doing more with less.

Stop Wasting Precious Time and MoneyYou have a complex problem at work, and you know the standard solutions: hire a consultant, enlist a superstar employee, have more meetings about it. In short, spend money and hours to dig your way out. But you've been down this road before—the so-called solution consumes your time, dollars, and resources, and yet the problem still reappears.There is a way out of this cycle. Organizational researchers Tanya Menon and Leigh Thompson, experts in collaboration and creativity, identify five spending traps that lead to this wasteful “action without traction”:The Expertise Trap: recycling old solutions on current problemsThe Winner's Trap: investing additional resources into failing projectsThe Agreement Trap: avoiding conflict to feel like a team playerThe Communication Trap: communicating too frequently over too many channelsThe Macromanagement Trap: assuming your employees don't need your directionMenon and Thompson combine their own research with other findings in psychology to provide strategies to break these unproductive habits and refine your skills as a manager. From shaping problems in new ways and learning from failure through experimentation, to stimulating productive conflict and structuring coordinated conversations, you can escape these traps and discover the value hidden in your organization—without spending a dime.

Get to the heart of Management Control Systems with this acclaimed text. Management Control Systems, 4th edition, by Kenneth A. Merchant, and Wim A. Van der Stede, is the market-leading text for management control and performance management studies. Using real-life examples and a range of international case studies, the book offers you a thorough understanding of the core concepts and key topics of the subject. The text's clear and structured chapters ensure logical progression and understanding through topics such as the control function of management, alternative methods of management control, and how to apply your knowledge beyond theory. Considering all areas of Management Control Systems, from implementation to ethical questions, the 4th edition serves as the ultimate guide to the subject, excellent for students and practitioners alike.

With its unique range of case studies, real life examples and comprehensive coverage of the latest management control-related tools and techniques, Management Control Systems is the ideal guide to this complex and multidimensional subject for upper level undergraduates, postgraduates and practising professionals.

This book is the first among many books in supply chain management, which provides the readers with insights on how to select the best global supply chain out of inter-firm network, fables system or market firms. This process is clearly expounded in the book through case studies, which include Apple, Toyota, BMW, IKEA and Taiwan TSMC. The main editor, Prof Yasuhiro Monden, is the founding father of Lean Production Management who published Toyota Production System from IIE in 1983, which is called the classic of Lean System. This book will explain how the global supply chain (GSC) could be organized by considering causal relationships of the stage differences in (1) market needs, (2) product design architecture, and (3) product life-cycle, for the purpose of reducing the total costs of GSC.

For undergraduate Management Control Systems courses and other MBA Management Accounting and Control electives.This book represents an innovative new approach to management control systems, based on the latest research and practice. Using a carefully integrated structure, it shows how today's managers use both financial and non-financial controls to drive strategies of profitable growth in rapidly changing markets.

Driving down cost provides answers to the conundrums every manager faces about costs: how to stop them growing out of control, where and how much to cut, how to get the management team focused on driving them down, and whether any cuts are too deep.

In Anlehnung an das Controlling-Lehrbuch hat der Autor ein praktisches Arbeits- und Übungsbuch erstellt, das nun in der zweiten Auflage erscheint.Das Übungsbuch gibt dem Leser die Möglichkeit anhand von ausgewählten Aufgaben und Übungen das Controlling-Wissen zu festigen und zu vertiefen.Schwerpunkte sind: Grundlagen des Controlling, Basisinstrumente des Controlling, Strategisches Kostenmanagement, Investitions- und Wirtschaftlichkeitsrechnung, Berichtswesen sowie Reporting, Strategisches und operatives Controlling in verschiedenen Funktionsbereichen und Projektcontrolling.Bei der Auswahl der Beispiele hat der Autor sich an den ihm in Seminaren und Trainings in der Industrie und an Hochschulen gestellten Fragen und Problemstellungen orientiert, sodass sich das Arbeitsbuch sehr gut zum Selbststudium eignet.

Addressing a topic of critical importance to every business, this book provides managers at all levels the tools to conduct a successful cost-cutting and productivity-improvement program.Cost cutting and improving productivity are objectives that have always been—and continue to be—critically important to businesses. Today, being efficient isn't simply'best practice;'it's essential to preventing layoffs and facility closures. In Cutting Costs: Successful Strategies for Improving Productivity, a certified management consultant with nearly four decades of experience presents his highly relevant and extensive knowledge to help businesses make significant improvements and be more successful.Providing a practical progression of information that is simple to understand and easy to put to use and benefit from, Fred H. Neu's advice and insights will be invaluable to all business owners, managers with budget responsibility, business finance and accounting professionals, management consultants, business school instructors, and business school students.

Clients are consistently demanding lower prices at the time of each purchase and companies can only react by reducing costs. This volume shows that the only way to do this, is to reinvent the business model. New consumers, new pricing, new brands, new strategies.

No More Headaches, Hypertension, or HeartburnIf your work involves projects, then this book is for you. It will show every company owner and project manager—at businesses large and small—how to run projects differently. You'll benefit if you've ever:• been over budget on a project• exceeded a timeline on a project• worked on a project that completely stalled as you neared the finish line• lost money on a sure-thing project and had no idea why• noticed that scope and feature creep held you back• watched a project take three times as long as planned• felt too embarrassed to perform a review of your successes and failures• wondered whether your project actually made any moneyBy the time you finish the book, you'll be ready to implement Project Management for Profit in your own company—and be prepared to keep your projects on track and on budget.

No More Headaches, Hypertension, or HeartburnIf your work involves projects, then this book is for you. It will show every company owner and project manager—at businesses large and small—how to run projects differently. You'll benefit if you've ever:• been over budget on a project• exceeded a timeline on a project• worked on a project that completely stalled as you neared the finish line• lost money on a sure-thing project and had no idea why• noticed that scope and feature creep held you back• watched a project take three times as long as planned• felt too embarrassed to perform a review of your successes and failures• wondered whether your project actually made any moneyBy the time you finish the book, you'll be ready to implement Project Management for Profit in your own company—and be prepared to keep your projects on track and on budget.

'An excellent primer for anyone struggling to keep profits ahead of costs.... Double Your Profits''take no prisoners'approach is refreshing.'- William Byham, bestselling coauthor of Zapp!One of the nation's foremost management consultants shares seventy-eight proven ways to cut costs dramatically, send sales through the roof, and double profits in just six months.This timeless profit-boosting guide, considered a top management resource by business powerhouse Jack Welch, presents insights that are notable for their aggressive approach and contrarian perspective. Bob Fifer, former chairman and CEO of Kaiser Associates, shows us how to turn the tables on hardball-playing suppliers and competitors. He also challenges outmoded assumptions and explains why:arbitrary budgets are sometimes the best budgetsbosses are frequently underpaidcustomers can often be persuaded to pay moresuppliers can often be persuaded to charge lessWhether you're a mid-level manager, senior executive, or Fortune 500 CEO, you'll find this book is required reading for growing your company and improving your bottom line.

With a new preface and a detailed chapter on applying cost reductions to the public sectorDrawing on over 25 years consultancy experience running over 50 big one-time, cost-reduction projects internationally, Wileman provides a Cost Management Toolkit of key ideas and cost management strategies for analysing cost-management including procurement and management accounts and looks at how the leadership team needs to take the lead and set the tone on cost. He lays out a set of ideas, approaches, tips and tricks that have worked for him and looks at the sneaky ways cost can be created and the even sneakier, smart ways they can be cut - like getting your customers to do your work for you, or turning cost into revenue. Packed with real-life, international case studies and practical techniques for implementing cost reduction programmes in a period of chaos in the markets and worldwide recession, this new edition could not be more timely.

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.

The Practical, Precise, and Proven Approach to Integrated Cost and Schedule Control!This trusted project management resource, now in its second edition, includes expanded coverage of how integrated cost and schedule control works within the federal government. With the renewed emphasis on transparency in government, the processes detailed in this book are particularly relevant.Building on the solid foundation of the first edition, this updated second edition includes new material on:• Project planning in the federal government• Integrated baseline reviews• Federal requirements for an ANSI/EIA-748 compliant earned value management system• Federal requirements for performance reportsIntegrated Cost and Schedule Control in Project Management, Second Edition, continues to offer a practical approach that is accessible to project managers at all levels. The step-by-step presentation, numerous case studies, and instructive examples give practitioners relevant material they can put to use immediately.

The pharmaceutical and healthcare industry is hugely complex because it involves so many markets, products, processes and intermediaries. It is also heavily regulated, global, and used by everyone at some stage in their life. No wonder the supply chain for delivery of healthcare services is often fragmented and understood only in discrete sections. Changes in one area impact upon the others, and environmental factors such as pricing, regulatory change or actions by competitors impact the whole supply chain in ways that are not easily understood or managed. Accelerating technology, the commoditization of healthcare, increasing demands from ageing populations all influence the approach that suppliers of pharmaceutical products and services worldwide need to take if they are to design and manage an effective supply chain that will be capable of: exploiting their intellectual property in a sustainable way; providing safe and continuous provision of drugs or devices; and sustaining with resilience, yet still be flexible and cost efficient. Supply Chain in the Pharmaceutical Industry offers the basis for organizations to develop their own blueprint for managing the opportunities and threats to the pharmaceutical supply chain. Using examples from companies and markets across the world Rob Whewell offers a very vivid picture of the developing trends for pharmaceutical companies; the customers and markets they serve and points to some of the elements that underpin sustainable pharmaceutical strategies. The current global banking and financial crisis illustrates the important role played by regulation. The healthcare industry is similar in scope, and complexity, yet the implications of error are worse - life threatening. This review of key industry parameters will provide senior executives in the industry and policy makers in healthcare with a broad perspective of the issues and illustrates an understanding of the task at hand.

For most companies, cost cutting in a down economy means across-the-board slashing that'spreads the pain'of budget reductions across many departments. While that may sound like the best approach for getting critical results fast and for limiting political infighting, it is a mistake-one that will leave your company weaker, not just smaller. Instead, companies that need to reduce costs should treat the challenge as an opportunity to identify and reinforce their key capabilities, while divesting from those activities that do not truly reflect the business's strengths or long-term goals. This more strategic approach will make your company more resilient as tough times continue and more robust as recovery begins.In Cut Costs, Grow Stronger, an e-book published as part of the Harvard Business Press Memo to the CEO series, Booz & Company's Shumeet Banerji, Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi provide executives with the tools they need to rapidly implement capabilities-driven cost reduction. First they demonstrate how to identify and clearly articulate your company's key capabilities-not just core competencies or skill sets, but those very few strengths that, in combination, define how your organization competes. You can then use this information to create your company's unique blueprint for effective and efficient cost reduction. The authors'detailed, step-by-step framework walks you through the process, which can be completed in as little as two or three months-it's something that you can do now. This practical guide to capabilities-driven cost-cutting is the tool executives need to confront the challenge of today's economy while strengthening the foundation for what will set their company apart in the future.

For most companies, cost cutting in a down economy means across-the-board slashing that'spreads the pain'of budget reductions across many departments. While that may sound like the best approach for getting critical results fast and for limiting political infighting, it is a mistake-one that will leave your company weaker, not just smaller. Instead, companies that need to reduce costs should treat the challenge as an opportunity to identify and reinforce their key capabilities, while divesting from those activities that do not truly reflect the business's strengths or long-term goals. This more strategic approach will make your company more resilient as tough times continue and more robust as recovery begins.In Cut Costs, Grow Stronger, an e-book published as part of the Harvard Business Press Memo to the CEO series, Booz & Company's Shumeet Banerji, Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi provide executives with the tools they need to rapidly implement capabilities-driven cost reduction. First they demonstrate how to identify and clearly articulate your company's key capabilities-not just core competencies or skill sets, but those very few strengths that, in combination, define how your organization competes. You can then use this information to create your company's unique blueprint for effective and efficient cost reduction. The authors'detailed, step-by-step framework walks you through the process, which can be completed in as little as two or three months-it's something that you can do now. This practical guide to capabilities-driven cost-cutting is the tool executives need to confront the challenge of today's economy while strengthening the foundation for what will set their company apart in the future.

Das Buch besitzt nicht unbedingt den Charakter eines klassischen Lehrbuches. Anhand von Abhandlungen und Fallstudien zu einzelnen Themengebieten des Controllings und des Kostenmanagements wird ein Umriss der in der Praxis vorkommenden Instrumente und ihrer Anwendungsmöglichkeiten gegeben. Sowohl instrumentenspezifische Artikel wie zum Projektcontrolling oder zu Transferpreisen in Profit Center Organisationen werden behandelt als auch Branchenlösungen, wie beispielsweise Konsumgüterhandel oder im öffentlichen Privatverkehr. Das Lehrbuch wendet sich in erster Linie an Studierende der Wirtschaftswissenschaften und Hörer anderer Fakultäten, die sich problemorientiert einen fundierten Überblick über wichtige Systeme und Verfahren des Kosten- und Erfolgsmanagements sowie des Controllings verschaffen wollen.

Hilfreiche Trainingsfragen zu diesem Buch finden Sie unter: http://www.economag.de/training?ISBN=58386 Will man die Kosten des operativen Geschäfts kompetent planen und kontrollieren und die Leistungen von Managern sachlich beurteilen, muss man das Instrumentarium der Kostensteuerung ausschöpfen können. Hier schließt'Kostensteuerung kompakt'als eigenständiger Band an den erfolgreichen Vorgängerband'Budgetplanung kompakt'an. Konzepte und Methoden der Kostensteuerung werden auf einem sprachlich hohen Niveau und anhand vieler praktischer Beispiele eingeführt und vertieft. Besondere Attraktivität erhält dieses Buch durch zahlreiche Übungsaufgaben zu jedem Kapitel und die zugehörigen Lösungswege. Hilfreich ist auch hier wieder das zweisprachige Glossar der Fachbegriffe.

Super series are a set of workbooks to accompany the flexible learning programme specifically designed and developed by the Institute of Leadership & Management (ILM) to support their Level 3 Certificate in First Line Management. The learning content is also closely aligned to the Level 3 S/NVQ in Management. The series consists of 35 workbooks. Each book will map on to a course unit (35 books/units).

The Earned Value Management Maturity Model® gives you the fundamental tools needed to build an effective Earned Value Management System (EVMS). This must-have resource makes earned value management easy by defining a maturity model and describing metrics to measure the health and efficiency of your EVMS. Discover valuable ways to improve your EVMS and achieve project success. Through point by point discussions, you will:• Gain fundamental knowledge of Earned Value Management (EVM)• Learn how EVM can be applied to a team, project, program, or organization• Understand how to define what your organization wants from its EVMS• Discover a five stage maturity model for EVMS implementation• Bring your EVMS in line with ANSI 748 guidelines• Review many real or imagined impediments to implementing EVM and how to overcome the real onesPLUS — You'll gain practical EVM experience through a comprehensive case study that follows a fictional company and newly hired project manager. By applying the EVM knowledge and skills covered in the book, the project manager illustrates the ease of implementing an effective EVMS!

einführendes Lehrwerk zum Erfolgs- und Kostencontrolling, wobei die Controllingtheorie und -politk als verbindende Klammer für die Kerngebiete der Unternehmensrechnung dient. Durch die Übersichtsdarstellungen ist das Buch ein ideales Lernmittel.

The concept of'earned value'as a project management tool has been around since the 1960s; although recognized as an important technique and widely used on US Government contracts, it failed to excite much interest in the wider world because of its specifically American requirements and the cumbersome, prescriptive bureaucracy that seemed to accompany it. Recently however, with the advent of suitable software and used in a much more flexible way, there has been a growth in interest among project managers. Crucially it has been recognised that this technique can be helpful in a wide variety of projects of almost any size, not just government projects costing billions of pounds. In essence, earned value allows the project manager a more precise view of actual project performance in terms of both value generated and schedule progress than is possible with any other approach. Alan Webb's concise guide provides practising project managers with everything they need to: ¢ assess the appropriateness and benefits of the earned value process for both their project(s) and their organization; ¢ appreciate, understand and learn the techniques involved; ¢ identify how to apply the data to manage projects with flexibility, pragmatism and rigour; ¢ understand the different features and benefits of the various software packages available; ¢ plan for the introduction of an earned value methodology, anticipating both the systems and people problems they may face. The book uses worked examples, cases and anecdotes from the author's own extensive experience to bring this technical subject to life. Alan's writing style is direct and economical, which means that whether you are dipping into chapters for reference or reading about the process from cover to cover, everything he has to say is pertinent and helpful.