Bad news on global growth

 
Car industry suffers most

The recession is well under way with the International Monetary Fund announcing this week that global growth in 2009 is expected to be 0.5% – its worst for more than six decades.
 
Manufacturing is at the sharp end of the recession with the car industry feeling the effects so strongly that a £2.3bn bailout is in the pipeline. Just this week Corus, the Anglo-Dutch steel producer has announced it will cut 2,500 jobs from its British plants and in the coming months more manufacturing companies are expected to be shedding jobs.
 
Now more than ever, manufacturers need to look at ways of boosting revenues and reducing costs whilst still keeping up to date and competitive in the market. All companies in the sector are under growing pressure to cut costs and streamline their operations and many are now looking to technology to strip costs from their business to help them survive in tough economic conditions.
 
Large scale technology projects have to some degree been disaster zones for companies and gross overspends and over runs have been commonplace. The attached release discusses the challenges involved with boosting revenue effectively through cost effective IT solutions. Any manufacturer embarking on an IT project needs to keep costs from spiraling and Agile + Governance software methodology, used and developed by Dot Net Solutions, is fundamental in ensuring that a project is delivered in budget and on time.
 
The article author Dan Scarfe of Dot Net Solutions has worked with manufacturers such as Citroen. Dot Net Solutions produced a pioneering website for Citroen using the latest technology, including ASP.NET 2.0, .NET 3.0 and SQL Server 2005 to allow the website to be ready in less than three months.

Quelle: Public Relations