I made a promise to myself to update this blog each week so apologies that I'm a few days late this week. In my defence I'll blame the pile of work that hit my desk after we completed our acquisition with Insight along with a bout of man flu!
In my last entry I talked about the decision we took as a management team to integrate the business with Insight to help accelerate growth plans and leverage some unique opportunities presented by our individual business models. One week in is probably a good time to write about how things have been going and our outline plans for the future.
Anyone who has gone through this kind of exercise will tell you that it is pretty gruelling. Essentially you need to do a hectic day job and take on a pile of additional integration work. On top of all this you also need to spend a lot of time with your people, partners and clients to ensure they both understand what is going on and feel an active part of it.
The reaction from our people has been fantastic, this deal makes an awful lot of sense and they are really fired up by the benefits of being part of a hugely successful global and agile business along with the opportunities now ahead of us.
Our partners are also equally excited by the changes. They see the potential for a much broader and more interesting relationship. The reaction from within Cisco has been incredible at all levels. We recently sat down to review our unique shared services partnership with Cisco and it was probably one of the most constructive meetings we have had to date. MINX is now seen as a major business partner and our working relationship is becoming closer and more collaborative.
I guess you could say that the future is bright, the future is Orange ;-)
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