John Baekelmans
Cisco
Member since 2003
ADM members are always prepared to offer objective views on the state of affairs within the IT landscape, across company boundaries
It is imperative to keep eyes and ears open for other perspectives in the IT world. However, that’s not always as easy as it sounds, but ADM members excel at it.
Being an ADM member helps me to understand how other people build their IT solutions and it helps me to put my own, sometimes limited views, into a larger perspective.
It never ceases to amaze me how openly ADM members share their different areas of expertise. I have good memories of the RFID working group that I coordinated in 2005. As a real team we compiled an overview of the current state of the business around RFID technology and its applications across many verticals. What has remained with me all these years is the mutual collaboration that took place between the different people from the different companies within the workgroup. Everybody was 100% prepared to offer objective, unbiased states of their business domains and accounts without necessarily privileging their own companies. It surprised and pleased me that our entire project was conducted in such an open and collaborative way, across all company boundaries.
I believe in the ADM platform where large and small companies work together, share information and network. The one thing that connects all members is the drive to define the best way to implement Information Technology across all their accounts, large or small.