Can Nortel compete?
Joel Hackney, President of Nortel Enterprise Solutions, regularly talks to corporate CIOs to ask them about their top priorities and what they need to improve their businesses. Over the past year, Hackney has noticed several items that bubble up to the top of the priority list for most of the CIOs he’s talked to: • Green IT and energy efficiency • Tying IT investments to business processes • Finding IT employees who aren’t just code writers but can apply IT to business processes As a result, Nortel built its networking product line around a couple big priorities: energy efficiency and unified communications (UC). With cost, environmental, and (looming) political pressure building around energy efficiency, that’s a no-brainer. In terms of unified communications, Nortel sees that as an emerging driver of infrastructure decision-making. It’s also something that can easily be tied to improving the business. “UC is the intersection of communications and business processes,” said Hackney. Th
