Business Chief APAC+ANZ Magazine October 2020 | Page 146

TRANSGRID

“ We decided to lose all our legacy equipment and use only the very best , tailor-made solutions from the outset ”

— Russell Morris , Chief Information Officer , TransGrid
146 only in the IT team , but across the whole business and that was important in how we were quickly able to meet the impact of COVID .
“ Before 2020 , the highest number of personnel we had working from home in a single day was around 10 % of the workforce ,” he continues . “ This had to rapidly scale to more than 80 % now working from home , including the vital training and adoption of collaboration technology . The relationships between the IT domain teams and the other business units were crucial in understanding business needs as circumstances changed very quickly .” An example of this , says Morris , is the establishment of TransGrid ’ s
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