Management for Design 5. Ensure projects are performing to budget and employee utilisation is maintained 6. Increase your efforts to collect outstanding invoices. Keep a watchful eye on your cashflow! 7. Communicate with your people - keep them informed and engage your senior people in the decision making and implementation 8. Review your strategic objectives to anticipate the challenges ahead, rather than simply react to them 9. Look after your clients and make sure you focus on keeping them. One thing that does not change in a downturn is client expectations 10. Focus on what you are great at! Diversification is not the answer. Decide on which functions and initiatives to concentrate on, and which should be outsourced or stopped altogether In summary, these 10 critical actions will help to answer the questions that leaders are being confronted with. It is vital that leaders do not underestimate the challenges that lie ahead; they are about to prove their real worth.
M4D in the cloud The term cloud computing has become the buzz word in IT over the past year or two. What is cloud computing? Is it necessary? Why do we care? How does social networking fit in here? Can we utilise this technology? Cloud computing allows software services to be accessed over a network of servers. This network is collectively known as 'the cloud'. Computing at the scale of the cloud allows users to access supercomputer-level power. Using a thin client or other access point, like an iPhone, BlackBerry or laptop, users can reach into the cloud for resources as they need them. For this reason, cloud computing has also been described as 'on-demand computing'.
Remember 'the cloud' is not the Internet, as some would believe. The
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