By Tandberg. Difficult times require a break with past practices. In these challenging times, companies are being forced to reduce travel, limiting partner meetings, customer events and employee gatherings.
As one business travel adviser noted recently, spending on travel "has become a boardroom issue" since the downturn hit us.
Having just signed a €5.5 million contract with Cable & Wireless to build a new communications network, Kier Group’s investment in IT shows no sign of being dented by the recession. But the construction giant’s head of IT Terry Walker tells BM that while technology is a top priority for the company, there are tough times ahead in 2010.
It has taken 25 years for Vodafone to mushroom into the world’s largest mobile telecoms firm. But with the company looking to slash huge costs on the back of the recession, we catch up with Group CIO Albert Hitchcock to discover how he is making cuts and why the telecoms industry is racing into a “rich world of capabilities”.
Telepresence is a new era in videoconferencing that attempts to put people from all over the world in the same room. To discover more, we hear from Odd Sverre Østlie of Tandberg.