Technology Magazine July 2022 | Page 154

Rasheed Mohamad of ALE : Making the Unpredictable , Predictable

time ) in 2000 . Here , he journeyed through different aspects of ALE ’ s divisions such as Operations , Finance , R & D and Programme Management until joining the Executive Management team in 2017 .
ALE ( then Alcatel ), is a 100-year-old telecoms company , and though now global , it started out from humble beginnings in the Alsace region of France . In the second half of the 20th Century the company became decidedly more disruptive . Following acquisitions , Alcatel merged with Lucent Technologies to create Alcatel-Lucent – a global communications powerhouse . “ Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise separated from the Alcatel-Lucent Group in 2014 ,” explains Mohamad , “ and we

“ Our challenge is to turn the unpredictable into the predictable ”

RASHEED MOHAMAD EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT , ALCATEL-LUCENT ENTERPRISE moved away to deliver industry-specific digital age networking , communications and cloud solutions , applications and services to enterprises across the globe .” He says , “ Now , our values lie at the heart of what we do . Focusing on customer centricity , reliability , speed and agility enables us to offer organisations a total customer experience .”
ALE ’ s uniqueness derives from several elements working in unison . They provide an extensive e2e portfolio of network , communications and cloud solutions for enterprise customers with flexible business models in the cloud , on-premises and hybrid . This means that ALE customers can choose solutions that are tailored to
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