15th March 2011, 09:03 PM
GPStone Wrote:Big companies in limited markets will put smaller companies under pressure. That's commerce!
Absolutely. There is no correlation at all between company size and quality of work. What there is, however, is a series of economies of scale that mean, in a mature market, big companies swallow up the smaller ones. Ours is just such a 'maturing market'. However, it's not all bad news for the little guy: there will always be an economy of scale for the lean, mean expert consultants and one-man bands.
The future belongs to Oxford/Wessex on the one hand and Dr Pete/Unit on the other. Everybody else better work out what their USP is before they get nudged out of existence.