I worked for a company that would spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on their annual report. Every year it was a big deal. There were meetings, interviews, photo shoots and a lot of late nights to make sure it was just perfect and on time. It was beautiful every year.

Then one year a new Chief of operations was hired. She reviewed costs and saw that the creative department was too expensive. She closed it and outsourced the work.

One thing that happened was that the annual report was turned into a plain accounting report which reported the needed information. Tada, no one really complained, people that needed the information got what they needed and a few hundred thousand dollars was saved every year. It never came back.