Forget everything you've been told about cost optimisation
Turn cost into competitive advantage
Cost optimisation isn’t just about cost cutting. It’s about spending money in smarter ways: reshaping, reconstructing and maintaining profitability.
It’s about building a foundation for your future growth and business transformation.
It’s about seeing the opportunity within the challenge - whether you’re taking on the constantly evolving external environment or maintaining your day-to-day operations. Finding ways to effectively deliver your own complex change programme, realise a return on your technology investments and increase enterprise value.
It’s turning to the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other emerging technologies to transform your cost base. Exploring new customer behaviour patterns to bring fresh options for more cost-effective service models. We work together with you to seize the opportunities available to your business and deliver the outcomes you need.
It’s cost optimisation, but not as you know it.
Understanding how costs flow through your business’ ecosystem of functions, service lines, geographies, partners and suppliers needs deep expertise.
We bring the track record, expertise and talent that are second to none. Wherever your market, whatever your industry, we’ve been there, and we can help.
We stand with you, immersing ourselves in the solution, ensuring accountability and fostering true alignment with your goals.
“It’s tempting for many businesses to focus on growing the top line, cutting costs, and exploring strategic options such as selling parts of the business. It's easy to take for granted that the cash position is visible, accessible and will ultimately look after itself. But, building a cash conscious culture that permeates throughout the entire organisation is what will help protect businesses on the bumpy road ahead.”
From AI tools that help you pinpoint ways to propel productivity and efficiency to tools and techniques that can create an organisation wide cost agenda, we bring the technology that helps you unlock the insights that create real value.
Sector specific. Front line to back office. We provide you with the analytics and benchmarking from across your cost base that helps you make active choices that fast-track results.
36%
of UK CEOs expect GenAI to increase profitability this year
PwC’s 28th UK CEO Survey
By 2028, at least 15% of day-to-day work decisions will be made autonomously through agentic AI, up from zero percent in 2024.
We create the teams with one guiding principle – the needs of you and your customers are at the heart of what we do and how we approach it.
We’re trusted and reliable connectors, influencers and team players. We bring in our technology alliances wherever needed. And we build connections with your partners and suppliers too.
We see cost optimisation as something we do with you – not to you.
“Only by developing the right blueprint for sustainable productivity - and the right technology to deliver results - can you embrace change, deliver on your purpose and create lasting value for all.”
Cost optimisation has a reputation. You want your leaders, managers and people to be part of the team, feel safe and buy into the value opportunity.
Protecting integrity with your people, customers and stakeholders is our whole mindset. We understand where emotional undercurrents flow and how to channel them positively. Our people have the autonomy to put your organisation first.
Unlocking opportunities in your organisation
Explore our cost transformation insights, including exclusive research and case study examples of the work we do, to gain a competitive edge.
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Contact us
Leader - Enterprise Operations and Transformation, PwC United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)7730 146256
