Cost cutting....
Essay: Cost Cutting
cutting a function's budget (and perhaps headcount) by selecting what's worth buying (versus traditional budget cuts and caps on headcount)
<A HREF="fc-8227.htm">FullCost: Column -- Cost Cutting
Monograph: Downsizing Without Destroying
how to trim what your organization does rather than destroy its ability to do anything at all.
Video: Downsizing Without Destroying
interview with Dean Meyer on that alternative to across-the-board cuts -- strategic cost cutting.
SmartPros' Financial Management Network (27 min)
Case Study: Cost Transparency Enables Strategic Cost Cutting
Riverside County IT cut costs without risking the whole business. (2009)
Essay: Headcount Caps
caps actually drive costs up, not down!
<A HREF="fc-8341.htm">FullCost: Column -- Headcount Caps
Challenge-solution pair: Cost Cutting
Story: Take It Out of Hide (Sep 2002)
Budgets have to be cut, but clients go on expecting all the same deliverables.
Story: The Ax is Falling (May 2003)
Budget cuts without negotiating reduced expectations set you up to fail across the board.
Story: Another Cut (May 2005)
What staff need to do to arm the boss with data to defend the organization during budget cuts.
