World Map of Product Cost Management
On the last blog post (Product Cost Management – What is it?), I talked the different ways that my colleagues and I have seen the meaning of Product Cost Management take shape over our careers and...
View ArticleAll That Glitters Isn’t Gold… and Neither Are Product Material Cost...
I happened to stumble upon an article on SpendMatters from a few weeks ago by Sheena Moore: Friday Rant: What’s in a Brand? For Tiffany’s new “Rubedo” Cuff, a Preposterous Mark-Up The article about the...
View ArticleToday’s Product Cost Killing Tip — Control the Evil Robot Overtolerancer!
There were a lot of comments last week to the article we posted with the title: Only 17% Percent of Companies Meet Product Cost Target Many people complained about the dearth of knowledge of the design...
View ArticleIt’s not the club… it’s YOU! (Lean = Vertical Integration = Better Product...
Last week we talked about the struggle in corporate strategy between Core Competency structures and Lean manufacturing. Whereas Core Competency thinking naturally leads to more outsourcing and extended...
View Article2012 Revenues in the Product Cost Management Software Market
Hiller Associates received a question this week from a business school asking us what the revenue of the product cost management market is. That was a very interesting question, and one that we have...
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