Rightsizing Support Functions Part 2
Episode Description
📂 Management
Brief Summary
Corporate efficiency strategies lead to significant cost reductions and improved performance through leadership alignment and global restructuring.
Key points
- Transforming a Logistics Company. A logistics company shifted to a global scale, achieving significant cost savings.
- Efficiency Observations. Consultants look at four lenses to identify inefficiencies in companies.
- The Importance of Leadership Alignment. Senior leadership must agree on goals for successful transformation.
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Episode highlights
- Transforming a Logistics CompanyA logistics company shifted to a global scale, achieving significant cost savings.“They created another twenty-five percent savings on top of what they had done before.”2:27Oct 2, 2014
- Efficiency ObservationsConsultants look at four lenses to identify inefficiencies in companies.“We look at it through four lenses.”7:42Oct 2, 2014
- The Importance of Leadership AlignmentSenior leadership must agree on goals for successful transformation.“Misalignment at the beginning is the biggest issue that we observe.”14:50Oct 2, 2014
Tension
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