One of the toughest challenges of managing an arts organization is dealing with the high fixed costs of doing business: office rental, computer costs, security, etc. So it’s worth asking just how many of these “essentials” are actually still essential in the digital world. “Of course, arts organizations need control of many assets to do what they do…since often what they do requires lots of physical space. But there are signs in the world that new options are available, if an organization is really serious about rethinking its fixed costs, its overhead, and the ‘stuff’ it thinks it needs to do its work.”