Grab The Reins

"Imagine the economic benefits by acquiring copiers in volume," urges McCall of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "A company can get a much better deal acquiring 400 copiers at once instead of 400 departments each acquiring one copier. The savings that the company realizes in staff time alone—consider having 400 people all go out and look at the same copier—will more than pay for the time spent having the in-plant looking at the copier choices."