183 unleashed our people from their desks , the office , the corporate network and even the need for VPN in many instances ,” he says . “ We can now work on any device , anywhere , anytime . It ’ s been enormously successful for us allied with a flexi desk , activity-based working environment . Of course , with more functions moving to the cloud , reliable and performant network connectivity only increases in importance and this can be challenging for our more remote stores who have access to limited bandwidth . Working with Riverbed , we ’ ve been able to address this using their SD WAN solutions to optimise the available network to all our stores and we ’ re well progressed with completing this enabling programme .”
The company ’ s positive approach to change management is providing a platform for everybody at Foodstuffs North Island to get on board with new ways of working . “ We have really matured our capability across all business units . We deliver a constant and heavy program of IT change , both within Support Centre and stores . We ’ ve a multi echelon approach to
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