Managed IT – Graham Leverages Finance, Operations, Technology and Compliance Expertise to Create Sustainable Advantages

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The Graham family dairy in Scotland relies on PCs to run its production and distribution. It needed remote management because of its limited IT resources. The company activated remote management features of the Intel vPro platform to increase productivity.

Cost-Effectiveness

Graham brings a planning and execution mindset to the team along with strong leadership and team building skills. He leverages his expertise in finance, operations, technology, and compliance to link critical business needs with organizational structure and process.

Dairy businesses rely on PCs to manage nearly all production and distribution aspects–from the flow of milk to printing shipping labels, and the data sent to handheld devices used by delivery people. It’s time-consuming and expensive for a small team to provide employee tech support across dispersed devices.

Graham’s Family Dairy implemented remote management tools from Intel vPro to reduce the workload of their IT team and costs. This also improved productivity. These hardware-based solutions offer out-of band connectivity that is independent of the operating systems, allowing engineers a greater range of problems to be fixed. For example, when a device that controls the flow of milk at a depot went down, the IT team was able to access it even while it was powered off using Intel AMT and Intel EMA. This enabled the team to resolve the issue immediately, avoiding costly manufacturing and distribution delays and saving a four-hour drive for employees.

Reliability

Graham’s extensive experience with data-driven business insights helps him align critical client objectives with new technologies that create sustainable advantages. He has a team-building mindset, a plan and execute mentality, and he is aware of the relationship between technology, organization, and process requirements. He uses this insight and deep operational knowledge to help clients harvest data and optimize for efficiency.

At Graham’s the Family Dairy, connected PC infrastructure is vital to all aspects of production and distribution operations from printing shipping labels to sending information to handheld devices used by dairy delivery people. Providing on-demand IT support for all endpoints, however, was becoming unsustainable.

The Graham’s IT department decided to use the hardware-based tools for remote management available on Intel vPro platforms in order to reduce operational interruptions and increase employee productivity. The IT team could remotely troubleshoot issues that were affecting worker productivity by activating Intel AMT. This reduced the number of employee call-outs and enabled Graham’s to deliver on their promise of high-quality products.

Security

Graham has been building, managing and marketing digital businesses for more than 20 years. He has created interactive television shows for Fuse TV, launched a lifestyle brand at Heavy and led product development at MTV. He has worked with digital platforms at Sprint, XM Satellite Radio, and Warner Brothers.

His planning and execution skills are used to develop business strategies that build strong companies. His team of professionals works with clients to optimize for efficiency and harvest data that supports growth agendas. His experience spans three continents and includes work in Hong Kong, Singapore and the United States.

The family dairy in Scotland, Graham’s, relies on PCs for nearly all aspects of production and distribution. The IT team of just two was finding it increasingly difficult to provide remote IT support for dispersed endpoints. Graham’s IT team was able to free up time by activating remote manageability capabilities of the Intel vPro platform.

Flexibility

Managed IT Graham leverages his finance, operations and technology experience with emerging market insights to help businesses optimize for efficiency. He supports growth agendas for businesses with his planning and execution skills, and creates sustainable advantages by overcoming disrupted operating models and processes.

Owl Labs says Gen Z employees expect flexibility at work. They’re more likely to quit a job that doesn’t provide this flexibility. For companies, this means providing flexible work environments and listening to employees’ needs.

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