It seems the GFC was not the problem many people expected, February job ads in Australia were up more then 19% on the previous month and business confidence indexes are at an 8 year high.
Such a business environment can sow the seeds of its own destruction with the growth being experienced by some companies hard to absorb without straining the resources of people and processes within the organisation.
I've faced this issue with the development of our Facebook apps, after releasing some basic solutions a few months ago, we never seemed to have free resources to allocate to getting the next release of our Facebook apps into production. Having to choose between paid customer work or investing in a business development initiative that could be a nice new revenue stream is a hard choice to make, especially when clients are clamouring for their work to be delivered.
In the end, we did something that can be quite a difficult decision to make, we partnered with an outside web development company to deliver an updated Facebook application that connected with our game engine. The whole process has been fairly painless and the new app is about to go live without impacting on other schedules.
I recommend considering partnering as a solution to capacity issues in the current rapid growth business environment.
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