CompuServe Thread

I am looking for corporate success stories for graphics and communications departments. I appreciate any info people are willing to share. Hey, brag a little on your accomplishments. Have you or your department: 1. Brought more work and designers internal? If so, was there a big cost savings, improved quality and consistency in design? How many people are in your department? 2. Scaled back designers and gone out of house for design? If so, what about cost? Do you use more than one vendor? 3. Do you do multimedia and video in house? What system(s) do you use. Was the decision to do this work internall driven by cost? 4. How is your department defined. As part of marketing, a separate graphics department, what is it called. 5. Does your department service the general graphics and print needs of the entire company or take on select few projects and identify goals and objectives for the dept. for the year? Those are the general questions. What I am looking for is the person that can say…"by doing things this way we were able to accomplish…." WHY DO THIS??? What is my angle? I am trying to form a new department in a rapidly growing company who already has an invested interest in desktop video creation in house and I want to make a specialized "visual communications" department and expand into multimedia, etc… You can CIS mail me your replies. Once again, thanks. Paul