Business protection - Be a business bulwark

The recession of the past few years has put all types of business, of all sizes, under pressure. But while the economy continues to stagnate, firms continue to find new ways to protect their operations, whether by reducing overheads, introducing flexible working practices, reducing their reliance on credit (which remains in short supply) or good old-fashioned cost-cutting. The desire to take cost out of the business is an understandable one. If we are, as Goldman Sachs would have us believe, entering "The Great Stagnation", then "lean and mean" will become the new watchwords for Briti...