On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 09:15:00AM -0500, Tom Duerbusch wrote: > Now I don't know many department managers that would spend X dollars > out of their budget to save Y dollars in someone elses budget. You > might use the savings to justify the expenditure "up the line", but the > savings are soft dollars. Never measured. Never seen.
So you just need to go a bit further 'up the line' to find the point at which the two departments have a common manager, and sell it to him/her. :) At some level in any organisation there's someone who would have visibility of both budgets -- if that's the Managing Director (CEO, President, whatever) then it might be a bit harder but it doesn't make the point invalid... The nice thing is that cutting utility costs doesn't (usually) do anyone out of a job -- it makes for an easier cost-saving proposition than the budget cuts that might mean job losses. How many CEOs would knock back a proposal that: a) reduced overheads, and b) didn't involve giving anyone the sack? Cheers, Vic Cross ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
