Flying in the Face of Adversity

摘要

In times of economic downturn companies need to prepare themselves to take advantage of the upturn to come, and that means exploring new processes and new solutions. Yet IT budgets are often the first to get slashed when companies start cutting back. For engineering companies, where the quality of IT systems has a direct impact on the design team's ability to deliver innovative products to market on time and on budget, trimming IT can sound the death knell for their ambitions.