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By now, you’ve aligned your team. You’ve launched structured negotiations. You’ve secured early wins.
If the goal is long-term cost leadership, a few quick wins aren’t enough.
Most business leaders want to reduce costs — but don’t know where to start.
A well-packaged ask is powerful. But power without follow-through is just noise.
When it comes to cost reduction, most leaders think their biggest challenge is pricing.
Most cost reduction efforts lose momentum because the work starts too late — often after the contract is up, pricing...
Series: Strategic Cost Leadership: From Insight to Impact Part 1: Where Smart Cost Leadership Begins Most cost...
The leadership team had already done two offsites this year.
The strategy was clear. The execution plan was sharp. Leadership was aligned.
In Part 3, we tackled task-level accountability—how leaders assign the “A” and the “R” so that follow-through actually...
