Outsource Issue 30 - (Page 48)

outsource xpLOreS SMART COST MANAGEMENT IN ASSOCIATION WITH KLB GROUP Smarten Up Our series OutsourceXplores Smart Cost Management with KLB Group kicks off with a top-level view of the topic and why it matters to everyone throughout the organisation – especially those with responsibility for P&L and EBITDA… Jamie Liddell Jamie Liddell is the Editor of Outsource and www.outsourcemagazine.co.uk S ince the onset of the financial crisis cost savings have been at or near the top of the agendas of most organisations large and small across the world. As belts have tightened, the importance of getting the very biggest bang for one’s buck has grown ever greater – and while much of that burden has landed on procurement departments, the responsibility has fallen across the board and right up and down the corporate structure – with the buck stopping eventually, of course, with CEOs, CFOs and FDs. Anywhere there is a cost impact of an activity or a process – and where isn’t there? – is now, rightly, subject to scrutiny: can close inspection yield even the smallest efficiency gain or cost saving? If so, might the accumulation of even the most marginal gains have the same remarkable effect upon an organisation as it has had upon the GB cycling team, for example, whose prioritisation of marginal gains has transformed it from obscurity to record-breaking triumph? x 48 ●● For more superb content from our series OutsourceXplores Smart Cost Management with KLB Group, see the series index at www.outsourcemagazine.co.uk/klbxplores www.outsourcemagazine.co.uk http://www.klb-group.com http://www.outsourcemagazine.co.uk http://www.outsourcemagazine.co.uk/klbxplores http://www.outsourcemagazine.co.uk

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Outsource Issue 30

Peering through the fog
Who moved my world
Bringing on the beeb
Courting the commentariat
Everyone is responsible
Our survey says
Fast money
Smarten up
Seeing the biggest picture
NOA round-up
Embracing enterprise innovation
Customer matters
Application development outsourcing
India: rules for offshoring
Talent gap
The Professionals
Book learning
The outsourcing jigsaw
The legal view
Top ten
NelsonHall round-up
Spontaneity
Online round-up
The deal doctor
Inside source
The last word

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