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How they're managing technology in the Southeast.
I had the pleasure of providing the keynote speech for the ITEC regional IT conference in Charlotte, N.C. this week and had a great time visiting the area for the first time. Even better, I had the chance to sit down and talk to IT folks fighting the good fight in the Southeast.
One of my pet peeves is that many vendors act like everyone in America is a college educated, white collar knowledge worker sitting in front of a computer all day. Not true.
I talked to the security manager of a large food service production and distribution company that has 6,000 employees but only about 2,000 computers. Truck drivers, warehouse people, and other hands-on workers don't tend to need computers to do their jobs. That's why the company has a 3:1 ratio of people to computers.
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