Dec
18
- Chris Thomas
- 18/Dec/2008 11:06
At a recent breakfast event a senior economist from a major high street bank, laid bear the true extent and depth of the impending economic gloom. A generation of government debt, a decade before the house market returns to its peak, and years before economic growth returns. A sobering picture and the back drop for all business strategy meetings currently taking place to plan for the new year.
In such circumstances, sales and marketing are often the first aspect of business to be curtailed as they are seen as overheads, unnecessary when no one is buying. Unfortunately web sites are in this group of suppliers, and the money for these projects will gradually dry up. As many web design companies rely on a steady income of new projects, difficult times are ahead.
Web design companies with strong software development ethics, such as VSI-thinking, are experiencing a different scenario. The current climate also encourages cost cutting and improvement in efficiencies. VSI-thinking is able to help with these business objectives and is currently engaged in a number of such projects.
A recent project to develop a call centre application helped the company improve their current working processes and gather more effective marketing information. At the same time they were able to reduce costs over the existing solution and deliver more functionality. VSI-thinking can apply their extensive experience in building such applications to any business and help identify how to make savings to see you through this tough recession.