Building the team

摘要

No company is ever better than the people it employs. One person who endorses this message is Carolyn Story, technical director of Acterna Plymouth, based in the Devon town of that name. The operation, part of a global business formed by the merger of UK company Wavetek, Wandel & Goltermann Ltd and US firm TTC, employs some 220 people in the design, development, manufacture and marketing of test and measurement systems for telecommunications networks. As such, says Story, it has to survive in a commercial environment characterised by sharply compressed product development timescales, more aggressive marketing strategies and increasingly demanding customers, who now require not merely 'equipment' but 'complete solutions' to their problems. In order to meet these challenges Story has, in the three years since she joined the company, been one of the the driving forces behind a comprehensive and increasingly Mentoring is much more than just developing people, it's the vehicle for passing on the company culture-the 'corpotate glue'-form those with know-ledge and experience to those who need it. This was the message heard by deldgates at a recent mentors' conference organised by the Thales Group's corporate university and held at the IEE's Savoy Place building in London.