Cost Efficiency
Defining actions to improve profitability
Enterprises face increasing pressure to protect margins in an environment of rising costs, shifting customer expectations, and ongoing investment needs. Many organizations respond with broad cost-cutting initiatives that deliver short-term relief but erode capabilities, reduce agility, or miss the real levers of profitability. The true challenge is to identify and act on structural inefficiencies — across operations, processes, technology, and sourcing — without undermining growth or resilience.
Our Cost Efficiency practice helps organizations achieve this balance. We take a 360-view of the organization and its cost drivers, and identify both quick wins and structural opportunities. By combining operational insight with rigorous follow-up, we deliver targeted actions that reduce waste, optimize spend, and strengthen long-term profitability.
From 360-view to actions with ownership
We help organizations move from recognizing cost pressures to embedding efficiency as a core discipline. It starts with a 360 fact-based diagnosis using activity-based costing to understand true cost drivers. From there, we apply a “save first, scale later” approach: stop or defer non-urgent investments and projects, secure immediate savings, and create room for scalable growth and improvements once the baseline is reset.
Execution is driven through clear ownership and accountability within the organization, supported by active challenge on both progress and impact. We provide full management visibility on savings KPIs, ensuring that leaders can track results in real time. By combining quick, measurable actions with the structures for sustainable cost discipline, we help organizations deliver immediate relief while setting the foundation for long-term profitability.
Why Addestino?
A unique methodology, proven to work
Create deep understanding of organization: financials, top-down and bottom-up
uncovering real cost driver and structural inefficiencies throughout the organization
Develop an E2E roadmap that combines quick gains with strategic saving tracks
enabling quick relief to create momentum to tackle topics for structural cost reductions
Ensure savings are realized by running a multi-functional Business PMO
that challenges owners, pushes on timelines and ensures results show up in actuals
Implement cost-cutting program to regain profitability in IT services
- Creating activity-based costing model, identifying unprofitable contracts and causes
- Uncovering root causes by creating 360-view of organization’s operations
- Driving cost-cutting actions leading to annual margin improvement 3.5M€
Intra-organization standardization of PDA for cost reduction
- Analysing and aligning PDA requirements across different retail banners
- Pushing standardized model after cross-banner dual-vendor test orchestration
- Renegotiating contracts based on increased volumes, leading to 8+ M€ unlocked savings
Redesign processes to increase efficiency in financial institute
- Conducting mapping of 110+ operational processes to identify key complexity drivers
- Designing targeted improvement initiatives to streamline operations and reduce effort
- Developing a transformation roadmap unlocking 150+ FTE in efficiency gains
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