How can I save my business money?

11th December 2025

It’s a question on every business owner’s lips: “How can I save my business money?”

Our expert productivity consultants take a look at just five ways you can improve your processes, reducing costs and helping you manage pressures around cash flow.

1. Focus on what your customers value most

By understanding what matters most to your customers, you can allocate resources more efficiently, reducing spend on areas that don’t add value and focusing on those that have the biggest impact.

A targeted approach streamlines operations and prevents unnecessary complexity.

By aligning your offerings with customer priorities, not only can you improve your overall customer experience, you can also lower costs associated with marketing, production and customer service, ultimately improving overall profitability.

2. Concentrate on colleague retention

Recruiting, hiring and training new colleagues is an expensive, not to mention time-consuming, task – especially if it’s a regular occurrence. 

It’s also much more beneficial for your business to have experienced colleagues who perform better and make fewer errors. It helps preserve valuable knowledge of your business, strengthens your team, and results in a smoother operation, as well as less disruption.

By ensuring your colleagues are engaged, supported and motivated, not only will you benefit from higher levels of productivity and efficiency, you will also reduce the high costs associated with employee turnover. 

3. Reduce waste

Reducing waste helps to improve efficiency and cut unnecessary costs. Using Lean methodology to do this identifies and eliminates non-value-added activities – such as excess inventory, overproduction and inefficient processes – all of which consume time, materials and resources without benefiting your customers.

By streamlining operations and using resources more effectively, you can lower production costs, enhance productivity, quality and customer satisfaction. By applying Lean methodologies to reduce waste, you can create a more agile and cost-effective organisation that delivers greater value with fewer resources.

4. Minimise movement

When colleagues move excessively and unnecessarily, it adds no value but consumes both time and energy.

By reviewing the layouts and processes within your organisation, you can create a map to outline the individual steps of every task and then identify any sticking points to remove, reduce or streamline.

Shortening travel distances means less movement for colleagues, faster task completion and fewer delays, all of which contribute to lower operational costs and a smoother, more efficient workflow, saving both time and money.

5. Make an informed budget

Using a workload labour model ensures you budget for resources at a local level to deliver your sales and salary budgets.

By analysing individual tasks, peak times and productivity, you can align your colleague requirements with actual operational demands. This way, you reduce costs by ensuring the right number of colleagues are deployed at the right times, minimising overstaffing and the inefficiencies that are caused by understaffing.

More on workload labour models

• Read our post; The What, When, Why and How Of A Workload Labour Model
• Read our post; What Are The Strategic Benefits Of A Business Workload Model?
• Read about ReBudget; our labour planning tool
• Read our post; Workload Modelling and Our Specialist, Karen
• Read our post; Q&A With Karen; ReThink Productivity’s Workload Model Expert
• Download our whitepaper; Practical Productivity – Workload and Salary Models

Bonus: Improve your productivity by bringing in the experts!

One of the best ways to save money for your business is taking a look at your entire operation. 

By streamlining your processes, improving your productivity and freeing up colleague time for the more valuable tasks, you can reduce costs and have more confidence in managing your cash flow.

Our productivity experts have decades of experience identifying opportunities for businesses to grow sales and align their operating model to better deliver their strategies.

We work with businesses all around the world, from various sectors and markets, helping them understand more about their operation and highlighting changes that can help them save money.

Contact our productivity experts today and discover how we can help your business save money.