FASTER - BETTER - CHEAPER - SAFER ... will the pressure never cease? It would seem not!
As we now warily wade through 2011, every business enterprise continues to face accelerating change and aggressive competition. High Technology companies may be the most challenged of all! Slow growth - shorter product life cycles - fewer people - stretched management resources - increased security concerns & international financial risks ... all push both hi-tech vendors and customers to the ragged edge.
After eight years (1993 - 2000) of an improving technology environment in the United States, the following eight years (2001 - 2008) moved the country in the wrong direction. There existed for the first eight years of this new century, multiple business, economic and geopolitical indicators that caused high-anxiety in the world of high technology in the US and elsewhere. Only in the last three years 2009 - 2011 was the US beginning to make the national policy decisions that will allow it to recover. The results of the US national elections in November 2010 may have slowed this momentum, as the US House of Representatives filled with Tea Partiers, "birthers" and radical budget deficit cutters, threatening Social Security, MEDICARE, and the new Health Care legislation.
Nowhere is it more relevant to leverage knowledge and know-how than in high tech, perhaps far more important in today's uncertain times!
Given this reality, smart executives seek to accumulate and apply both knowledge and know-how to create enhanced economic value. Further, they speed access to same via assistance from those who have "been there; done that well". By leveraging outside business consultants with broad experience and keen insight, leading companies anticipate and embrace change, rather than fear it. With advanced and flexible business planning and revised internal processes focused on customer solutions rather than product features, winning companies rapidly gain the competitive advantage.
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