BASIC STRATEGY GUIDE: STEP 28



Activity Four:
Manage the Company’s cost structure to create Economies of Scale while offering good value to Core customers.


Step 28: Evaluate Economies of Scale in each functional cost department.





What:

Measure the Economies of Scale (i.e., Productivity, Inputs/Outputs, over time) the Company is creating with its employees (Inputs). The Company tracks the Economies of Scale, measured by numbers of employees per unit of Output, in each organizational unit of the Company over a period of years. The Company may expand this analysis to do similar Economies of Scale estimates for the other two Input Building Block costs, Purchases, and Capital.

Why:

In the majority of industries, People are the most important of the Company’s Building Block costs in the measurement of Economies of Scale. The Company would be more likely to achieve its optimal Economies of Scale by having the capability and will to measure the Productivity of its functional cost departments regularly.

What to Watch For:

Action:

Use Productivity measures to set cost targets for each functional cost organization. Then use these measures to improve the Economies of Scale the Company’s sales volume growth creates.

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