Saturday, January 3, 2009

Internal Consulting

Virtually every project is strapped for resources. Especially in this tough business environment where you're more concerned with what you're going to tell Wall Street on your next date with CNBC. Instead of thinking of the employment cost as an investment for retaining your employees who you were right to hire, you want to show a smaller loss by laying them off.

Anyhow, considering every designer is faced with a deluge of tasks that he can't completely fit into his deadlines, why not advertise those internally to let other designers in the company bid for? Everyone's looking to make a contribution and some people want to earn more money. Some people want to try something new. Some tasks don't even involve any creativity - you merely need to plough through the time consuming business of simulating a design for some specific case, etc. Spend a little extra money to get it done on time, and let more of your workforce grow faster.

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