Cost Extension Control Model in Digital Context: From Continuous Cost Reduction to Value Co-creation

Abstract Digital technology has brought about great changes in organizational structure, the way of value creation and profit-making methods, which brings new challenges to cost control based on "chain". In this paper, cost control in digital context is promoted to the pattern design level, combining the cost control process and the value creation process into one. with the new characteristics of cost control, this paper puts forward that extension method can be the method and tool of cost control, and provides the optimization of strategic choice and model innovation following. Finally, the prospect of intelligent cost control based on Extenics is prospected.