New improved Intergen

<P>In line with our overarching strategy, we've been looking harder than ever at ways to increase our efficiency and give you solutions that deliver real business value.</P>

I thought I would take this opportunity to let you know about some of the things that have been changing at Intergen lately. Many of the changes have been planned for some time but certainly there is a feeling that we need to increase the intensity of our evolution. We are always striving to do things better and now it is even more important than ever.

We have made some changes to the way we organise ourselves. These changes continue on from the strategy work we undertook at the beginning of last year and are designed to improve the way we do business.

We have moved to become more sales focused and to revitalise our sales culture. We have introduced a new role of General Manager, Sales, and Bruce Smith has been appointed to that role
Wayne Forgesson, previously responsible for both Sales and Marketing as Director, Business Development, takes on a new role of Director, Marketing. Wayne is charged with ensuring our sales team has the best possible environment in which to engage with our customers.  One of the first initiatives from Wayne’s team is the new Rapid Results suite of products. These are product and service offerings that allow clients to engage with us to receive a predetermined solution that provides value for a fixed price (see page 3 for more information).

We have also changed our project delivery teams. We now have four practices: Enterprise Applications, Portals Content and Collaboration, Microsoft Dynamics Solutions and Management Consulting. These practices focus on solutions rather than disciplines, which allows us to be more focused on efficient delivery of solutions and repeatability of results, in turn reducing risk and increasing value. Our strong local focus remains, with each of our offices having its own practice leadership, but we have also improved communications and consistency nationally with the introduction of national practice principals for each practice area. Mark Orange has been appointed Practice Principal, Portals, Content and Collaboration and Joe Newton becomes Practice Principal, Enterprise Applications. Simon Bright continues in his role as Practice Principal, Dynamics and takes on the additional role of Chief Operating Officer with overall responsibility for all project delivery practices.

We understand that in these tough times your budgets are being squeezed. We are working hard to ensure that Intergen is well placed to offer you solutions that continue to deliver you real business value. The people you have been dealing with will not change but the organisation behind them will be sharper and have a clear focus on delivering high quality, cost effective and innovative solutions.

tony.stewart@intergen.co.nz