Cost is the strategy you have when you don't have a strategy. We separate the cost that funds the future from the cost that just slowed yesterday down.
Build the cost base up from the work the customer values — not down from last year's budget.
Category-by-category, on a cadence, with the savings booked to the P&L not to a savings tracker.
Inventory, payables, receivables — engineered with the operations team, not extracted from suppliers.
Stress-test the supply chain, the technology stack, and the talent pipeline against the failure modes that actually scare you.
Took eight points of cost out of a global manufacturer's overheads — the savings reinvested into the new-product pipeline that paid for the program twice over.
Sometimes. We are honest about it, and we run the change with care. Most of our cost-out programs reinvest into roles the company didn't have before.