An annual contract management study shows that every category of outsourced service from food service to engineering contracts has increased…
A common concern amongst cost managers today is that they have too many products, services, and technologies to analyze and…
Bestselling author Tom Peters tells us that, “Stealing from the best with pride,” is one of the best strategies we…
Of all the management disciplines that cost managers need to master to remain competitive in these lean times, we have…
Most people and organizations deal with change of any kind by denying it, avoiding it, or running from it with…
I frequently hear from CEOs, CFOs, and cost managers that tell me that their value analysis program has “run out…
“Management tends to take the smallest bite out of the cost apple,” says Jack Welch, as opposed to cost being…
Cost managers have one of the best vantage points in their organization to identify non-core functions that can be more…
Remember when we first learned how to dance? We spent a lot of time making mistakes and stepping on our…