Infinet Communications Inc. (A‪)‬

Two business partners must decide whether or not the accept an order for a large website project from a telecom just after they had accepted an even larger order from a key pharmaceutical company. Not only will the telecom order fall outside their pharmaceutical industry boundaries, it may require doubling the number of employees from 45 to 90 in this early stage entrepreneurial company. Serving the large pharmaceutical company could jeopardize the larger order and the company's reputation, to say nothing of the company's cozy 'family' culture. The supplement Infinet Communications Inc. (B), product #9B06A007, looks at the havoc that rapid expansion and subsequent shrinking wreaks on the employees. In the supplement Infinet Communications Inc. (C), product #9B06A008, describes what the company did in hiring and organizing employees and new systems that better tracked its project work.