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1 online resource |
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Fit for Growth: A Guide to Strategic Cost Cutting, Restructuring, and Renewal; Contents; Preface; Part I: Introduction and Fit for Growth Overview; Chapter 1: Do You Need to Cut to Grow?; Circuit City: The Ostrich Approach; IKEA: Elevating Cost Optimization to an Art Form; The Fit for Growth Index; Chapter 2: Becoming Fit for Growth: The Restructuring and Renewal Journey; Focus on Differentiating Capabilities; Align the Cost Structure; Reorganize for Growth; 1. The Operating Model; 2. The Four Building Blocks of Organizational DNA; 3. Talent; 4. Management Processes |
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Enable Change and Cultural EvolutionContinuous Cost-Fitness Renewal; Chapter 3: The Leader's Role: Aligning Costs with Strategy; How Do You Know When It's Time?; The Three Core Questions Leaders Ask; Question 1: How Do I Energize My Organization for Transformation?; Question 2: How Do I Achieve Cost Fitness While Enabling Growth?; Question 3: How Do I Manage the Transformation and Make It Enduring?; What Makes the Fit for Growth Approach Different; Part II: How to Cut Costs and Grow Stronger: A Manager's Guide; Chapter 4: Levers of Cost Reduction: What, Where, and How; Setting the Objective |
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Identifying Differentiating CapabilitiesSelecting the Cost-Reduction Levers; ""What"" Do We Do? Business Portfolio and Capability Choices; ""Where"" Do We Do It? Organization and Location; ""How"" and ""How Well"" Do We Do It? Operational Excellence; Chapter 5: Portfolio Rationalization: Decide What Business You Should Be In; What Is Portfolio Rationalization?; When to Use Portfolio Rationalization; How to Rationalize the Portfolio; Step 1: Understand Portfolio Complexity; Step 2: Manage the Trade-offs; Step 3: Take Out Associated Costs |
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Chapter 6: Zero-Basing: Justify What to Keep, Not What to KillWhat Is Zero-Basing?; A Versatile, Holistic Cost Lever; When Should You Zero-Base Your Capabilities?; How to Zero-Base Your Capabilities; Step 1: Define Functional Targets; Step 2: Segment Activity and Costs by Capability Category; Step 3: Assess the Value of Each Capability Category; Step 4: Zero-Base Current State; Step 5: Plan and Launch Initiatives; Chapter 7: Aligning the Operating Model: Redefine Where Critical Work Gets Done; Operating Model Elements and Archetypes; When to Redesign Your Operating Model |
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How to Redesign Your Operating ModelStep 1: Understand Value Creation Levers; Step 2: Frame Options to Accelerate Value Creation; Step 3: Develop Organizational Architecture; Step 4: Build an Implementation Road Map; Chapter 8: Outsourcing: Let External Providers Generate Value for You; What Is Outsourcing?; When to Outsource; The Outsourcing Process: How It Works; Step 1: Develop Sourcing Strategy; Step 2: Down-Select Suppliers; Step 3: Execute Due Diligence and Contract Negotiations; Step 4: Launch Transition; Step 5: Design Communications and Retained Organization |
| Summary |
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 |
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Title from resource description page (Recorded Books, viewed January 02, 2017) |
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Business.
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business (commercial function)
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Production & Operations Management.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industrial Management.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Management.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Management Science.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Organizational Behavior.
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Business
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Caglar, Deniz
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Plansky, John
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| ISBN |
9781119268550 |
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1119268559 |
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9781119268543 |
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1119268540 |
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