Business Restructuring: An Action Template for Reducing Cost and Growing Profit - Hardcover

Zilka

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0470503688 ISBN 13: 9780470503683

Verlag: Wiley, 2009

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An effective, long-term strategy for maintaining corporate growth, profit and competitive edge

Depicting a progressive emergent framework for long-term growth, profitability, and success, Business Restructuring: An Action Template for Reducing Cost and Growing Profit employs an integrated approach incorporating several of the most popular methodologies and best-in-class practices into a single proven framework.

Beginning with an overview of restructuring and what is needed up-front to be successful, this "How to Cookbook" helps you

• Understand business restructuring and cost reduction techniques
• How to transform any organization into one that is high performing
• Realize efficiencies through the reorganization of resources, improving processes, and identifying outsourcing opportunities
• Sustain results and achieve continued efficiency, profitability, and growth
• Describes the right leadership team dynamics to make sure the changes stick

Whether you are a business leader or manager, Business Restructuring takes you through a logical series of steps that will provide you with immediately useful tactics to apply on a regular basis to achieve immediate results, as well as a long-term roadmap to deliver performance excellence and increase shareholder value.

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CARLA ZILKA is the founder and Principal Advisor of NexGen Advisors, a global business restructuring and transformation firm. As the Principal Advisor, Zilka partners with Fortune 1000 CEOs, hedge funds, and private equity firms to deliver a vision, strategy, and plan on how to effectively restructure and prepare for growth. To date, she and her team have been responsible for cost reductions totaling over $1.5 billion and revenue growth opportunities over $2 billion in under three years.

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BUSINESS RESTRUCTURING

An Action Template for Reducing Cost and Growing Profit

Who knew a few years ago that the market would collapse and we would enter a recession that has instilled such fear and uncertainty into the world? As the fear of failure becomes more prevalent in business leaders, the result can be utter business paralysis or worse blindly resorting to short-term tactics such as downsizing or outsourcing to meet companies' quarterly numbers. Business restructuring, however, will transform your business, taking it from declining to growing.

Written by Carla Zilka one of the most sought-after restructuring consultants to corporate America Business Restructuring: An Action Template for Reducing Cost and Growing Profit offers a way to improve your company's cost structure processes and organization to create substantial self-investments geared toward future growth. This proactive book authoritatively covers:

• When you need to consider restructuring
• How to assess your organization is it "fit and healthy"?
• Process to change your cost structure to get the highest value at the lowest cost
• Developing a long-term strategy for maintaining corporate growth, profit, and a competitive edge
• A logical series of steps and tools for transforming your organization into a high-performing system
• The methodology, approach, and mind-set to achieve your goals in the most efficient and effective way possible

So, how do you know if your business needs to undertake the journey of restructuring? You can have the best strategies in the world, but if you don't have the processes and people optimized to execute it, your results may not reach the financial goals you set for the company. Decidedly not for the CEO looking for an instant fix, this book demystifies business restructuring and makes plain the best practice cost-reduction techniques with a proactive approach to jump-start your restructuring program, reap the benefits, and prevail when others do not.

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Who knew a few years ago that the market would collapse and wewould enter a recession that has instilled such fear anduncertainty into the world? As the fear of failure becomes moreprevalent in business leaders, the result can be utter businessparalysis or—worse—blindly resorting to short-termtactics such as downsizing or outsourcing to meet companies'quarterly numbers. Business restructuring, however, will transformyour business, taking it from declining to growing.

Written by Carla Zilka—one of the most sought-afterrestructuring consultants to corporate America—BusinessRestructuring: An Action Template for Reducing Cost and GrowingProfit offers a way to improve your company's cost structureprocesses and organization to create substantial self-investmentsgeared toward future growth. This proactive book authoritativelycovers:

• When you need to consider restructuring

• How to assess your organization—is it "fit andhealthy"?

• Process to change your cost structure to get the highest valueat the lowest cost

• Developing a long-term strategy for maintaining corporategrowth, profit, and a competitive edge

• A logical series of steps and tools for transforming yourorganization into a high- performing system

• The methodology, approach, and mind-set to achieve your goals inthe most efficient and effective way possible

So, how do you know if your business needs to undertake thejourney of restructuring? You can have the best strategies in theworld, but if you don't have the processes and people optimized toexecute it, your results may not reach the financial goals you setfor the company. Decidedly not for the CEO looking for an instantfix, this book demystifies business restructuring and makes plainthe best practice cost- reduction techniques with a proactiveapproach to jump-start your restructuring program, reap thebenefits, and prevail when others do not.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Wiley
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0470503688
• ISBN 13: 9780470503683
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Wiley-VCH GmbH; product_safety@wiley.com; ; Boschstrasse 12; Weinheim; 69469; Deutschland