Cost Control: Where are you cutting costs?

Chart: Survey of 4,500 CEOs asking where they intend to shave costs in their companies.
By Inc. staff | Mar 1, 1990

Where are you cutting costs?

Office automation 59%

Purchasing strategies 58

Inventory levels 51

Personnel levels 43

Marketing focus or

methods 41

Compensation methods 25

Manufacturing auto-

mation 23

Other 5

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Source: "1989 Arthur Andersen Enterprise Survey" of more than 4,500 CEOs of companies with sales ranging from $1 million to $120 million, Chicago