The NY Times has a nice article today on business innovations among interior designers:
In a business where tradition can squelch creative ways of doing things, it is often difficult to introduce fresh ideas, but the economy is encouraging experimentation.
Here are some of the themes I noted:
Taking smaller and off-beat projects
Offering streamlined online services
Empowering client-led design [...]
Last night on Charlie Rose, former GE CEO Jack Welch underscored just how extreme the uncertainty is today. In past recessions, he said, a CEO could at least have a degree of confidence about what was likely over the next two to three months. Not now.
An uncertain customer is often frozen into indecision. The unpredictability [...]
