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Rights (and Wrongs) of Change
Mike Donoghue is a member of a multinational information technology corporation where he collaborates on the communications guidelines and customer relationship strategies affecting the interactions with internal and external clients. He has analyzed, defined, designed and overseen processes for various engagements including product usability and customer satisfaction, best practice enterprise standardization, relationship/branding structures, and distribution effectiveness and direction. He has also established corporate library solutions to provide frameworks for sales, marketing, training, and support divisions.
With calendar year-end issues abounding and only glimmers of financial recovery in some sectors, many of us are hoping for some kind of seasonal miracle, no matter what faith you profess to be from.
One of the unfortunate side effects of a recession is the lack of funding on many levels. No matter what the climate may be, money is always an issue. Within our organizations, we often find ourselves plying our skills at smoothing out numbers and ramping ourselves up for discussions, arguments and (hopefully) peaceful resolutions. While the internal process has its hurdles, external facing negotiations are becoming increasingly more taxing as we are finding there is less wiggle room--or even place for common ground--when we attempt to work out financial details with our providers, clients and partner services.
Some of this sentiment may reflect the standard monetary recovery issues we personally experience due to our self-induced holiday excess problems, but as we all continue to cut back on expenses and reduce costs at any cost, there is a significant amount of effort being focused on our already lean operations so they are instead being made gaunt, emaciated and even skeletal. This is a financial necessity in some cases, but also one that motivates us to desperate decisions.
Our common sense tells us that we need to be cautious about adopting drastic measures. Otherwise, we …
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