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Should we have had to commit to get a first budget and get into action?<\/p>\n<p>#ActNow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who can tell today how much another day of inaction will cost?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2794,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"[et_pb_section admin_label=\"section\"]\r\n\t\t\t[et_pb_row admin_label=\"row\"]\r\n\t\t\t\t[et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\"]<p><img alt=\"\" height=\"429\" src=\"\/CMS\/content\/images\/201906\/1920x1275-roi-to-coi.png\" width=\"646\"\/><\/p>\r\n<p>At one time, when you sold a service, you had to justify a ROI - a Return On Investment. We can say that the return was king: with a good return, everything was salable. It was the time of quiet growth.<\/p>\r\n<p>But all growth ends one day because of a limiting factor. 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