Beating the recession
To kick off Orange Business Live 09 there was an interesting keynote from Mike Cansfield, principal analyst at Forrester Research. Mike reckons that all companies should now be focussed on planning their way out of the recession (and yes, it is a recession, not a depression as the doom mongers are proclaiming.) Not all sectors and all markets are recessed, so look for areas of growth, he says such as Africa, Middle East and China.
It's also vital to review the underlying cost structures pervading the whole business and recognise how new technologies like Cloud Computing, SaaS, M2M, telepresence, can strip out costs that companies have so far overlooked. For instance, to reduce travel costs, you could use more conferencing and collaboration technologies. To reduce mobile bills, you can look to FMC and getting mobile traffic onto global VPNs as soon as possible.
>> read more at: http://blogs.orange-business.com/live/2009/06/plan-your-way-out-of-recession.html
