FUJI XEROX AUSTRALIA
134 non-technical backgrounds to roles that required a thorough understanding of the business . “ There ’ s all of that technical competence you need , but actually for enhancing your business , understanding is incredibly powerful . You can teach most people a technical skill much more simply than you can teach a cultural communication skill . You do need to identify aptitude and desire – there will be some people who have no interest in learning about tech and that ’ s OK – but we certainly look for the soft skills more than the technical skills .”
Within Fuji Xerox , the IM team had the aim of becoming known as ‘ Awesome IM ’, a central cog in the organisation . “ We ’ re visual all the way to the top ,” Schembri comments . “ You can walk into our environments and see where we ’ re at on what roadmap , ahead or behind . Conversely , from the top down , the senior leadership team meets once a month and works through the process of what we ’ re doing on which
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