The Big Squeeze: Ten Ways to Cut Your Spend 10% Right Now! - Hardcover

Moody, Patricia E.

9781892538451: The Big Squeeze: Ten Ways to Cut Your Spend 10% Right Now!

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1892538458 ISBN 13: 9781892538451

Publisher: Oaklea Press, 2005

This book draws on the collective brainpower of hundreds of executives across America and around the globe, who work for such distinguished companies as Dell Computers, Motorola, and Ford Motor Company. Employing their suggestions, the author presents ways and means any business can use to save money and trim waste. Patricia Moody, a top consultant on supply chain management, created a blog dedicated to savings suggestions for executives who have hands on their companies' purse strings. The result is a wealth of information that she has distilled into twelve steps any company can take to immediately implement ten powerful ways to cut spending without sacrificing quality. Ms. Moody begins by telling an amusing story of executives caught in a frenzied rivalry to cut costs. Ultimately, one group finds an avenue that leads to success and an action plan to implement ten powerful ways to cut the company's spend. The remaining half of the book is a distillation of actual blogs providing real case histories any executive looking for ways to save will find invaluable.

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About the Author:

Patricia Moody has written 12 books during a 30-year career as a consultant whose clients include British Petroleum and Motorola. She has taught undergraduate and graduate courses and is a frequent speaker at conferences. Boards she serves on include Inside Supply Management, Sloan Management Review, and Ketera Technologies. She holds an honorary doctorate decree and an MBA from Simmons College.

Review:

A must read for every top level executive, and a must do for every supply management practitioner. -- Tim Larson, Vice President Purchasing, Michael Foods, Inc.

Patricia Moody presents a memorable story filled with powerful and proven approaches for companies to leverage their spend. -- David P. Steiner, Chief Executive Officer, Waste Management, Inc.

This book provides 10 innovative solutions at least 3-4 will help solving almost any procurement issue facing a company. -- Bill L. Knittle, Global Procurement Director, BP (formerly British Petroleum)

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