The council said its focus was to "reduce waste, duplication and bureaucracy, as well as cutting management overheads".
The Liberal Democrat-led authority said "finding efficiencies, reducing overheads and cutting management costs" amounted to more than 80% of savings.
The council said it had prioritised savings by reducing running costs in order to protect frontline services as far as possible, with 82% of the savings being made cutting management and overhead costs.
The CSB blamed lax safety culture at the firm as well as cost-cutting, bad management culture and worker fatigue.
Yet net earnings grew by 22% as a result of cost-cutting and adept financial management.
Instead of worrying about all that, Austin, 42, has been cutting costs and overhauling management when others might have sat idle.
Despite this fall in sales, the company said more store space, cost-cutting and better stock management had enabled it to boost its profits.
Boeing is set to announce a plan to cut costs further in its defense segment, Reuters reported, including cutting 30% of management jobs from 2010 levels and shuttering facilities in California.
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At a time when cost-cutting pressure has pitted management against labor in newsrooms everywhere, Graham is regarded by his employees as a benevolent figure, a throwback to an earlier era of corporate paternalism.
But Mr Bush is quietly implementing a programme that could reinvent government far more thoroughly than Mr Clinton's programme of cutting staff and introducing fancy management techniques.
Complementing the steps they take on the revenue side, the leaders will also reduce costs by making claims management more efficient and cutting administrative overhead.
Here brewers can crunch together operations such as management and distribution, so cutting costs and boosting profits.
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An expert witness testifying on behalf of the plaintiffs - the US Department of Justice and the US states affected by the spill - countered that the disaster was a direct result of poor management and heavy cost-cutting at BP.
The decision to dispose of the non-U.S. wealth management business stems from this focus on cutting flab.
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Phase II includes cutting costs by removing an entire layer of operations management, which will see the bank shedding thousands of lower-level jobs.
Only last autumn, the Fed had to save world finance by masterminding the rescue of Long-Term Capital Management, a hedge fund, and cutting interest rates three times.
But, as the central bank has recognised, there is also scope for cutting the debt-service burden by improving the management of debt issues, and by increasing the liquidity of government-bond markets.
The big global management consulting firms were laying off staff, cutting salaries and reducing work days.
So, he has decided to streamline the end to end decision cycles by cutting down the number of people between end cusotmers and senior management.
The SBA also has saved entrepreneurs potentially billions in excess regulatory costs--all while cutting its overhead by 24%, according to the Office of Management and Budget, which helps the president formulate and administer the national budget.
Bogle, 81, is retired from management but is as vociferous as ever an evangelist for cost-cutting.
He also blamed the downgrade on the economic management of previous governments and added that France was still committed to cutting its public deficit to 3% of output next year.
Sands Capital Management sold 6 million shares last year as of the end of September, cutting its holdings by 31%.
David Abella, an analyst at Rochdale Investment Management, expects Wal-Mart to take advantage of the difficult environment by cutting prices further in an effort to attract shoppers away from competitors, as well as convince those tight on cash to keep buying.
After all, with the government cutting back and big companies and banks reluctant to add employees, many of the masters in management students that I am teaching are quite pessimistic about the career opportunities in big companies.
Cendant (nyse: CD - news - people ) was up 1.5%, after the company set a dividend on it common stock for 2004, and Waste Management (nyse: WMI - news - people ) said it was cutting 880 white collar jobs from its workforce, in a move to scale down expenses.
But for now, Obermann, the youngest member of DT's management board, is focusing on seeing through the restructuring plans of his predecessor, which include cutting around 32, 000 jobs.
Of course, the private-equity groups claim that they have stockpicking and management skills, selecting the right companies to buy and then transforming them by judicious cost-cutting and investment.
The Roadmap highlights the need for strong water stewardship, and based on this framework Ceres has developed a cutting-edge tool, the Ceres Aqua Gauge, to help companies and investors improve their scrutiny and management of water risks.
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"The reach may be small, but it is this generation which is at the cutting edge of change, " says Rama Bijapurkar, marketing analyst and lecturer at Ahmedabad's Indian Institute of Management.
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