A free and easy training to be a better manager

This self-teaching course for managers, now freely open to all, is designed for the participants to the management courses of Patrick M. Georges, at the business schools of HEC Paris, the University of Brussels, the Vlerick School of Management, the Collège des Ingénieurs.
Three 8-hour tracks are available. Personal Management, Team Management and Business Unit Management.

How to benefit from this self-teaching course

1. Check the course program.
Select your weekly learning objective from the list of the 24 one-hour modules.
Open the module from the key words list below, according to their natural sequence, 1M to 24M, or to their topic.

2. Check how good you are as a manager. Answer the questions.
Study the referenced or downloaded documents. Search the web.

3. Improve your management skills. Check your answers.
Compare with the answers of this blog community or unmask the most frequent answers

4. Optional. Ask for the teacher support by e-mails, video conferences or class sessions

Get started with module 0 to check the 24 learning objectives

Click 0M on the key words list below to start

How to reduce your costs Module 22.3 Track Business Unit Management

Questions
What are the six questions you should you yourself before launching a cost reduction campain ?

Clues for answering

Questions you should ask yourself

A. To what level do I want to decrease the costs
1. At competitors level

2. At target margin level
3. At psychological level
4. At stable quality level
5. At stable customer satisfaction level
6. At target pricing level



B. Will you decrease costs ?

1. By abandoning an unprofitable activity
2. By reducing the costs of all the activities


C. What type of costs will you decrease ?
1. Labor costs
2. Suppliers bills
3. Transformation costs
4. Sales costs

 
D. Why are the labor costs too high ?
1. Geographical high wages

2. Overpayement
3. Too many people
4. Too many expansive people


E. How will you reduce labor costs?
1. Automation
2. Delocalization
3. Subcontracting


F. How will you reduce suppliers bills?
1. Negociation
2. Changing suppliers
3. Make supply yourself