Chapter 7. Reducing, Eliminating, or Changing Activities That Cause Costs

While working with numerous teams from a wide range of industries, I’ve come to the conclusion that writing a strategy is viewed as a theoretical exercise by many a cost management team. For some reason known only to them, these teams believe that discussing a few alternatives and choosing one or more will result in costs leaving the supply chain. Why bother writing a strategy? Good question. The objective of the fifth step in the AIM & DRIVE process is to discipline a team to think through the strategic options listed in the previous step (defining ...

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