Finance managers will benefit from learning how the finance function can be a strategic leader on cost management.
HR managers will discover how to manage the cost of in-house staff.
Driving down costs, while maintaining quality service provision, is a preoccupation for practically everyone in every sector. Whilst the recent economic crisis provides a clear imperative, reviewing costs is a valuable exercise at any point, and one that usually falls to the accountants or human resource professionals.
This course aims to give clear structures, tools, tips and techniques for where to start looking, and best practice advice on how to plan, make and communicate cost cutting measures.
Speaker Details
Andrew Wileman is a consultant to CEOs and board-level clients in large multinational enterprises and has run over 50 big one-time cost reduction projects, in Europe and America.
He is also a business writer, author of the recent book Driving down Cost (which was praised highly by the FT and The Economist and was Chartered Accountant Magazine book of the month) and regular contributor to business journals such as Management Today, the FT, and the Conference Board.
He was a senior partner with OC&C Strategy Consultants and has also worked with Booz Allen and BCG. He has an MBA from Harvard.
THIS COURSE IS RUN BY CIMA MASTERCOURSES
A toolkit of key ideas and cost management strategies, frameworks for analysing cost and practical techniques for implementing cost reduction. The course will cover urgent one-time cost cutting and sustained long-term cost management. It will also address how to balance tough cost management wtih core values, team motivation and growth.