424 Pages
by
Productivity Press
359 Pages
by
Routledge
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What would happen if everyone in your company followed a disciplined approach to cost reduction? Go ahead -- imagine it. What would it look like? How can it be done? The answer -- smart cost management . Effective cost management must start at the design stage. As much as 90-95% of a product's costs are added in the design process. That is why effective cost management programs focus on design... Read more
- Executive Summary
- How Firms Compete Using the Confrontation Strategy
- The Role of Cost Management in Confrontation Strategy
- The Research Project
- An Overview of Target Costing and Value Engineering
- Market-Driven Costing
- Product-Level Costing
- Value Engineering
- Component-Level Target Costing
- Factors That Influence the Target Costing Process
- Target Costing and Value Engineering in Action
- Lessons for Adopters
Case Studies - Toyota Motor Corporation
- Komatsu, Ltd.
- Olympus Optical Company, Ltd: Cost Management
- Sony Corporation
- Topcon Corporation
- Isuzu Motors, Ltd
Biography
Robin Cooper
