Business
ISC
An update from Iain McGonigal …
we have made towards it.
We are now very close to the
critical half year end period where
Control Tower
we need to drive every opportunity
we see to increase ship volumes to The Control Tower is central to our
the maximum, while tracking and ISC Business. It is continuing to work
actioning all inventory to the successfully. During 2008 we have
minimum. This may not sound been able to add IBM's newly
difficult, and I am delighted to acquired ISS business to our control
have been seeing record high tower and there are also another
performance on-time customer couple of opportunities in the
delivery statistics from the team, pipeline which I hope can be
but you can be sure we will put a announced in the near future.
huge amount of effort into making
sure we are successful across all
ISC Community of Excellence
brands over the next few weeks.
Another key part of our strategy is
Some highlights over the last couple the notion of Community of
of months : Excellence. We realise the
importance of investing in our most
Global Leadership Roles
important asset - people - and are
continually working on ways to
This is a key part of our strategy for achieve this. We are currently
the future and you'll consistently working on a variety of opportunities
hear the ISC Management team for employees to participate within
talking on this topic. the IBM Professions, within Lean
Sigma initiatives and also to
The talents and skills and potentially take part in Further
experience of the team here in Education Supply Chain courses,
ISC Greenock has not gone specially tailored for us.
unnoticed across the IBM world.
The various worldwide IBM teams
Guadalajara Exchange
continue to grow and continue to
seek out the best people to fill As part of a cultural and business
vacancies. So we will continue to exchange, we've just completed the
seek out suitable leadership first of several visits arranged to give
vacancies and provide a strong the Guadalajara team a view of the
pipeline of the right people who can Greenock organisation, culture and
really add value to the new global management system. Agustin del
IBM. Rio Castanedo and Julio Cesar
Ruelas both visited for two weeks
This strategy is working. A year or so and have now returned with a very
ago, where we had 25 people in positive view of Greenock with good
such global roles, we now have learning points identified for both
around 65. We are still driving our Greenock and Guadalajara.
target of 80 jobs by the end of the
year. This is still an aggressive target
but we are confident in the progress
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