Doug LaRue wrote:
** Reply to message from DJA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 16 Apr 2008
17:44:28 -0700
I'm also thinking that if the $$$ in savings...
"Savings" is a meaningless word to a bean counter. There is no column in
their ledger titled "Savings". They understand accounts payable and
accounts receivable and that's it. The proper approach is to show them
how to increase revenue (and failing that how to cut expenditures).
you can't see that this is what you or some "bean counter" would equate to
an expenditure cut? yikes.
That's all I'm going to say.
Doug
It really is Yikes! I learned, after working for years at a Fortune 500
company, that they only know how to spend money, not save money. We
could really only sell management on a significant investment or change
in procedures if we told them how it would increase revenue (even if it
only did it by saving them money). When told how to "Save money", they
automatically hear "Decrease warm body count".
I don't know how you convince the management of a school that
implementing a FOSS project, even one which included free labor, will
increase revenue since their Product is educated students. And they're
spending someone else's money. Not that it can't be done. But some in
the thread, having tried, suggest that it's really hard.
I'm not opposed to butting my head against a wall though. It wouldn't be
the first time. And it's sometimes fun.
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