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Welcome to Getronics Workspace News. Getronics enables organisations to increase their performance and raise their productivity and effectiveness of their people through their workspace. Workspace News brings you news and thought leadership that is intended to stimulate ideas and opportunities in your workspace. We hope you enjoy it and find it to be a valuable resource.
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| Enterprises embrace bring your own laptop to work |
Mark Dean, Principle Business Architect
 The age of the IT consumer has arrived. The world is connected by cheap broadband. The PC is now a commodity item. Users are more and more IT literate and demanding. How will this affect the behaviour of corporate enterprises and how they deliver IT to their users/employees?
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| Green is a state of mind not a colour! |
David Gyngell, Solutions Architect
 We've all read the news items, digested the white papers and attended the seminars around the virtues of the green data centre. Traditionally these have been a platform for one or more vendors to push their particular flavour of virtualisation technology. Opportunities are often missed though when the focus is limited to looking at how to reduce the footprint of an organisations computing facility. There is more than one way to go ‘green’.
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| Strategic operations is not an oxymoron in the NOW! environment |
Mike Whitchurch, Professional Services Director/Martin Gaines, Director Technology Transformation
 The art of enabling and delivering maximum operational efficiency in your supply chain lies in understanding how to balance tight control whilst appropriately enabling your workforce to deliver flexibility. The information loop can be closed with a mix of technology and people, deploying both in their simplest form at the appropriate points. I hear you say yes so what’s my point?
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| The complete CIO: from techie to business strategist |
 Getronics chose the occasion of the Gartner Outsourcing Summit to set out its vision of the future in which greater specialisation and collaboration are key elements. The company also acknowledged the critical role of the CIO in brokering the relationship between the business and its IT partners.
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