Friday, March 14, 2008

Introduction to Outsourcing Your Corporate Email

Business Management 101: The management and operation of a large company is not a trivial task. The maintenance of the daily operations of such a company can result in huge overhead that cuts into profits. A cut in profits results in a lack of growth, stagnation, and eventual failure of a corporate entity.

As foreign competitors in India and China gear up for business in the 21st century, American companies must look for increasingly creative (and effective) methods of cutting back overhead and increasing profit margins so that they may be competitive in a new, globalized economy.

Cutbacks come in many forms. Some look good on paper, but can be lethal to a company's sense of employee morale, or might be severely damaging to a public relations image, which was undoubtedly costly to develop in the first place. Some cutbacks and cost-saving measures have big qualitative impact but very little quantitative impact—and in a world where bottom line is king, it's the quantitative impact that companies should focus on.