Graham’s investment approach is as relevant as when he first wrote his book. He advocates buying a stock with a margin of safety, which means that you’re willing to buy it for less than the company’s liquidation value.
The Graham family dairy in Scotland relies on PCs to run its production and distribution. Due to limited IT resources, it needed a remote management solution. The company activated remote management features of the Intel vPro platform to increase productivity.
Cost-Effectiveness
Graham brings a planning and execution mindset to the team along with strong leadership and team building skills. He leverages his expertise in finance, operations, technology, and compliance to link critical business needs with organizational structure and process.
Dairy companies rely on computers to manage almost all aspects of production and distribution, from the flow and storage of milk to the printing and sending of shipping labels and data to the handheld devices used by the delivery staff. It’s time-consuming and expensive for a small team to provide employee tech support across dispersed devices.
Graham’s Family Dairy implemented remote management tools from Intel vPro to reduce the workload of their IT team and costs. This also improved productivity. These hardware-based solutions offer out-of band connectivity that is independent of the operating systems, allowing engineers a greater range of problems to be fixed. Intel AMT and Intel EMA, for example, allowed the IT team to remotely access a device which controls the flow milk in a depot, even when it was turned off. This enabled the team to resolve the issue immediately, avoiding costly manufacturing and distribution delays and saving a four-hour drive for employees.
Reliability
Graham’s extensive experience with data-driven business insights helps him align critical client objectives with new technologies that create sustainable advantages. He has a team-building mindset, a plan and execute mentality, and he is aware of the relationship between technology, organization, and process requirements. He uses this insight and deep operational knowledge to help clients harvest data and optimize for efficiency.
Graham’s Family Dairy’s connected PC infrastructure is essential to all aspects production and distribution operations, from printing shipping labels to sending data to handheld devices used for dairy delivery workers. Providing on-demand IT support for all endpoints, however, was becoming unsustainable.
The Graham’s IT department decided to use the hardware-based tools for remote management available on Intel vPro platforms in order to reduce operational interruptions and increase employee productivity. The IT team could remotely troubleshoot issues that were affecting worker productivity by activating Intel AMT. This reduced the number of employee call-outs and enabled Graham’s to deliver on their promise of high-quality products.
Security
Graham has built, managed and marketed digital businesses for over 20 years. He has created interactive television shows for Fuse TV, launched a lifestyle brand at Heavy and led product development at MTV. He has also worked on digital platforms for Sprint, XM Satellite Radio and Warner Brothers.
His planning and execution skills are used to develop business strategies that build strong companies. His team works with clients to maximize efficiency and gather data that supports growth goals. His experience spans three continents and includes work in Hong Kong, Singapore and the United States.
At Scotland’s Graham’s the family dairy, PCs are vital to nearly all production and distribution aspects of operations. The IT team of just two was finding it increasingly difficult to provide remote IT support for dispersed endpoints. Graham’s IT team was able to free up time by activating remote manageability capabilities of the Intel vPro platform.
Flexibility
Managed IT Graham leverages his finance, operations and technology experience with emerging market insights to help businesses optimize for efficiency. He also supports business growth agendas with planning and execution expertise, creating sustainable advantages to overcome disrupted processes and operating models.
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