Strategy & Execution
Cost transformation without cutting growth capability: a COO's guide
Only a minority of cost programmes deliver, and blunt cuts damage the capabilities that fund growth. A COO's guide to cutting complexity before capacity. The report sets out the considerations and practical implications discussed in the article.
- Format
- PDF · 14 pages
- Published
- Published Oct 2026
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What's inside
- 01Most cost programmes fail, and the failure is now measurable
- 02Repeating cost programmes show that cost is being cut but not designed out
- 03Blunt headcount cuts remove the capability that funds growth
- 04Start with complexity and duplicated work, where cost lives without creating value
- 05Set the target high, fund the delivery, and allow for leakage