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justdrew
Interactive musings from a creative technophile
Not just me who’s optimistic
I’ve been saying this for some time now: those who have services to offer companies (and individuals) that actually make or save them money (which amounts to the same thing) still have value to create and will make wealth for themselves and others- regardless of where the DOW average is.
For those of us in IT who focus on streamlining processes and making operations faster and cheaper, the market is only growing. My guess is we’ll emerge from this downturn with a slew of companies who operate faster, cheaper and deliver better customer service. In the end, we will all be better off… though it may take a while before we collectively wake up and look around to realize, “hey, things aren’t so bad again”.
Here’s what Forrester has to say about it.
And remember- if you only went by news coverage, we still haven’t recovered from the last recession. Recovery doesn’t make headlines- only crashes do.