Acknowledgments

I am grateful for the assistance of Sebastian “Tony” Jones. Tony worked closely with me in moving the C-O-S-T system from vision to reality while we were business colleagues. Tony is a cost optimization expert. He has led hundreds of cost optimization workshops helping product development teams save many millions of dollars in cost of goods sold.

Throughout my career I gained much knowledge of product development and cost reduction methods. I am thankful for the positions I held and interactions with people and projects that helped me gain such knowledge.

Guidance from the team at Business Expert Press was excellent during the process of moving the book from a manuscript to a published work.

Finally, support, encouragement, and ...

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