Yes I wasn't specific enough and contradicted myself. I said anyone can be a cost cutter, and that includes engineers. Where engineers are unique is in their

Yes I wasn't specific enough and contradicted myself. I said anyone can be a cost cutter, and that includes engineers. Where engineers are unique is in their ability and training to be efficiency and value creators. They are productivity increasers. Their value comes from productivity increases - not their ability to cut budgets. Cutting a budget might be a side effect of a productivity increase, but the profitability increases that finance first leaders push for is often at the expense of long term productivity rather than because of it. Hope that makes more sense!