Green shoots?

So how are things with you now that everything is supposedly feeling better? One of our fieldwork suppliers told me the other day that they had their busiest August ever. We are certainly seeing some things pick up and at the Research Club event last night the research community seemed both lively (helped by the free booze of course) and upbeat.

Of course the typical project is still smaller and costs more scrutinized than a year or so ago but at least we seemed to have turned the corner. Some of the results coming out from the big guys recently seem very poor with revenue declines of 10% or more but these are presumably old news and things will look up from here. I for one am certainly optimistic that things are and will continue to pick up but, as with the consensus, probably that the pick up will not be exactly ferocious.

So, being a Friday, I will toast green shoots this evening and just hope that everyone is feeling the same way, as that will of course make it true!!!