April 5, 2010
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Waging War on Complexity Costs Reshape Your Cost Structure, Free Up Cash Flows, And Boost Productivity By Attacking Process, Product, and Organization Complexity By Stephen A. Wilson and Andrei Perumal, McGraw-Hill, 2010
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Stephen A. Wilson is Managing Director of WilsonPerumal, the strategy and operations management consultancy. He is co-author of Conquering Complexity in your Business and a contributing author of Fast Innovation, both published by McGraw Hill.
Andrei Perumal is Managing Director of WilsonPerumal, the strategy and operations management consultancy. He works with CEOs, executive teams, and government leaders to help them solve challenging problems with a focus on integrating strategy, operations and organization.
omplexity costs are the single biggest determinant of your company’s cost competitiveness. For the past two decades the pursuit of growth has created massive complexity in processes, product portfolios, and organizations, adding costs that companies can ill afford. The only good news is that your competitors may be carrying as much complexity as you are. Learn how to eliminate this complexity, and you can create a tremendous cost advantage over your competition.
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WHY YOU NEED THIS BOOK
AN ISLAND OF PROFIT IN THE SEA OF COSTS THE ART OF COMPLEXITY WARFARE
Waging War on Complexity Costs | Stephen A. Wilson and Andrei Perumal
It is not enough to attack bloated product portfolios. Substantive cost improvements require addressing the complexity in the underlying processes and organizational structures. Tomorrow’s consumers are emerging as wellinformed customers who know what they want and the price they’re willing to pay for it. Complexity not only drives costs; it creates a barrier between you and the customer. Declare a war on complexity costs and prepare for profitable growth.