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Talking Business with ITA BUTTROSE 50 Belinda Seper BS Of course I made that mistake. IB But you don’t make it now. BS I think I now am much more conscious of time out for myself when I can feel the ends fraying and the temper shortening and I get a lot more snappy about the place. I think, uh oh, yes, she needs a break. You know the old expression about a rested field produces a better crop? It’s true. IB Belinda Seper, thanks for being on Talking Business. BS You’re welcome. <strong>radio</strong> QANTAS INFLIGHT ENTERTAINMENT | JUNE 2010
Talking Business with ITA BUTTROSE Glen Boreham is the Managing Director of IBM Australia and New Zealand having been appointed to this role in January, 2006. He manages a business of 15,000 employees and annual revenues of over $4 Billion. Glen began his career with IBM in 1986 as a graduate. Since then he has held roles across sales, general management, business development and operations. www.ibm.com/au/en QANTAS INFLIGHT ENTERTAINMENT | JUNE 2010 IB Managing Director of IBM Australia and New Zealand, Glen Boreham manages a business of 15,000 employees and annual revenues of over $4 billion. Since Glen began his career with IBM in 1986 as a graduate, he’s held roles across sales, general management, business development and operations. Here to discuss the changes he’s observed in the IT sector of the last 25 years is Glen Boreham. Welcome to Talking Business. GB Thanks Ita. IB IBM is Australia’s largest IT company and we know there have been enormous changes in IT in the last 25 years. It’s fantastic, but I think it also frightens people. Is Australia making the best use of all that technology has to offer? GB I don’t think we are. I think we’re in a good place to move to the next level, but what we’ve observed in my 24-25 years in the business, is that individual organisations have built their IT and we all know that, whether it’s a bank or an airline or a telecommunications company, and they’ve done that for their own purpose. But we’re sort of discovering at the moment, that the build-out is just phenomenal. In fact, one of the figures that IBM research has come up with is that there’s now one billion transistors per person on the planet, and you just sort of think of the scale. They’re in everything, they’re in your mobile phone, it’s in your car, it’s in consumer goods at home, chips in products on supermarket shelves, and we think that the next wave of IT is actually joining all these dots. The world and Australia has instrumented with the internet and wireless technology; it can now become interconnected and we can use all this to make Australia, and make the world, more intelligent. IB Are you saying that all these little chips are working independently and really what we need to do it get them to work together? GB Yes, like really literally. An example, we’ve all now got e-TAG’s in our cars and that was technology that was put there for a specific purpose, so that we didn’t have to <strong>radio</strong> 51
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