Fit for growth : a guide to strategic cost cutting, restructuring, and renewal

Fit for Growth: A Guide to Strategic Cost Cutting, Restructuring, and Renewal -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I: Introduction and Fit for Growth Overview -- Chapter 1: Do You Need to Cut to Grow? -- Circuit City: The Ostrich Approach -- IKEA: Elevating Cost Optimization to an Art Form -- The Fit for Growth Index -- Chapter 2: Becoming Fit for Growth: The Restructuring and Renewal Journey -- Focus on Differentiating Capabilities -- Align the Cost Structure -- Reorganize for Growth -- 1. The Operating Model -- 2. The Four Building Blocks of Organizational DNA -- 3. Talent -- 4. Management Processes -- Enable Change and Cultural Evolution -- Continuous Cost-Fitness Renewal -- Chapter 3: The Leader's Role: Aligning Costs with Strategy -- How Do You Know When It's Time? -- The Three Core Questions Leaders Ask -- Question 1: How Do I Energize My Organization for Transformation? -- Question 2: How Do I Achieve Cost Fitness While Enabling Growth? -- Question 3: How Do I Manage the Transformation and Make It Enduring? -- What Makes the Fit for Growth Approach Different -- Part II: How to Cut Costs and Grow Stronger: A Manager's Guide -- Chapter 4: Levers of Cost Reduction: What, Where, and How -- Setting the Objective -- Identifying Differentiating Capabilities -- Selecting the Cost-Reduction Levers -- What" Do We Do? Business Portfolio and Capability Choices -- Where" Do We Do It? Organization and Location -- How" and "How Well" Do We Do It? Operational Excellence -- Chapter 5: Portfolio Rationalization: Decide What Business You Should Be In -- What Is Portfolio Rationalization? -- When to Use Portfolio Rationalization -- How to Rationalize the Portfolio -- Step 1: Understand Portfolio Complexity -- Step 2: Manage the Trade-offs -- Step 3: Take Out Associated Costs -- Chapter 6: Zero-Basing: Justify What to Keep, Not What to Kill -- What Is Zero-Basing?.