[Sigia-l] Increases in design spending?

[Lamantia, Joseph C.]

Speaking from my new viewpoint as a member of an in-house design & development team, I'd venture the following as a guess on why we've seen several instances of this recently:

Many senior managers and executives inside what used to be called Old Economy corporations now understand the necessity of using the internet as a fundamental channel for their businesses, and consequently now regard the ability to produce and maintain high quality internet properties as a basic business capability.  

However, many of these same managers now have less money to spend on expensive vendors (who may produce results of questionable quality, especially if the managers are not savvy enough to know good design from bad), and small internal teams that are already greatly overburdened with work.  

Facing this combination of needs and limitations, the decision to *consider* building a stronger in-house design capabilty - which often means a larger team with specialist roles and its own processes - is easy.

Of course, the decision to spend the money and build the team is much more difficult...

Joe Lamantia

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-----Original Message-----
From: Lord, Ralph [mailto:rsl3 at cdc.gov]
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 9:30 AM
To: sigia-l at asis.org
Subject: [Sigia-l] Increases in design spending?


It seems that there have recently been several (2 or 3?) folks who have been
given the opportunity to make pitches for increasing their design team
staffing.  Are these coincidental or from where you sit are you seeing a
general increase in corporate spending for design services/staff?

Ralph Lord
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