Work In A Time Of War

CRN's Scott Campbell travelled last year to post-Katrina New Orleans to cover VARs struggling to keep their business operating and serve their customers in the flooded city. Now he has an even more remarkable story to tell. In Survival Of A Solution Provider, Campbell goes to Beruit, Lebanon to speak to the people of BMB Group, a Cisco and Microsoft partner, facing similar issues in the wake of the month-long Hezbollah-Israel war this year:

"War was a part of their lives again. The solution provider's managers met to strategize and prepare multiple scenarios as the war raged on. First, Samia offered all 40 employees in Beirut jobs in BMB offices in Algeria or Egypt if they wanted to leave. That soothed concerns about job security...

The executives then took stock of BMB's assets, where people were—including some who were traveling out of the country—and developed a plan to best utilize them. They surmised that document management and disaster-recovery solutions would become critical to customers, so BMB solidified teams in those areas."

Read it all. And don't miss Campbell's slide show of images from Beruit.

Posted by Joe Caponi at 06:15 PM, November 14, 2006

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