Le 2013-04-16 03:34, scott a écrit :
>> The idea is to reduce *unnecessary* costs.
>
> Things aren't black and white though, it's quite rare a company is
> paying anything significant for absolutely no benefit. How about things
> like pay rises, pension schemes, a receptionist, IT staff, a christmas
> party - necessary?
>
>> There are times when *spending* money can actually result in drastic
>> savings. Real managers understand that.
>
> My earlier point was that if a real manager is working for a healthy
> profitable company they are likely to get the money easily to do such
> projects/schemes that benefit the company in the longer term. However in
> a failing company the cash is likely not there to do such schemes, no
> matter how good the manager is. Or rather the manager would need to
> spend a disproportionate amount of time convincing senior management
> that they should get rid of the receptionist and use the money for X
> instead.

Even in healthy companies - as I said, my employer made $10G in profits 
last year, up from $9.1G the year before - it can be difficult to get 
funding for any thing.  Not impossible, but still difficult.

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