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At the beginning of this year, the two
firms moved into new purpose-built
offices at the Bridgehead business
park close to the iconic Humber
Bridge and motorway connections.
The new building is a showcase
for innovation, mobilisation
and digitisation, with technical
excellence, sales and engineering
support, all under one roof.
The sister businesses created a state-
of-the-art working environment at the
offices branded The View, where their key
teams work together seamlessly to offer a
compelling package of IT managed services
to a combined client base of more than
1,200 organisations.
In just three months, more than
500 people have taken up the partner
businesses’ open invitation to visit the new
headquarters and ‘come and see’ how
to harness technology to drive growth,
establishing the offices as a business
destination.
A wide range of customers, business
organisations and other groups have come
along to the offices which have been
purpose-designed to encourage collaboration
and enable clients to experience a ‘living
showroom’ where they can see print and
office automation systems in action.
The offices have hosted meetings by
the Humber Local Enterprise Partnership;
For Entrepreneurs Only, the East Yorkshire
business network for local owner/
managers; and the Bondholders marketing
organisation which promotes the Humber,
among many others.
Ken Sturdy, Managing Director, IT@
Spectrum said: “We’ve opened our doors
and welcomed in lots of people. We’re
showing the latest technology in action
and we’re practising what we preach.”
He added: “It’s been a revolving door
– every single day people are coming in
to visit us and make use of the facilities
in a variety of ways. We always say this
place is open to our customers, potential
customers, suppliers and friends and that’s
a lot of people. Our messages is ‘come and
see – you’re very welcome and you might
well learn something’.”
Events calendar
The ad-hoc visits have now developed into
an ever-growing calendar of meetings,
training sessions, networking opportunities
and business development events at The
View.
The events calendar features quarterly
‘Tech Talks’ focused on helping businesses
to utilise technology to drive growth. The
first of the Tech Talks series will take place
at The View during Humber Business Week
and will help companies to organise and
utilise profitably the vast amount of data
generated within their businesses.
Martin Lauer, Managing Director, The
One Point, said: “We’ve been delighted
with the response to our invitation to pay
us a visit, find out what we do and how we
do it, and make use of the facilities here.
“We’ve now developed that
engagement into an extensive calendar of
one-off, monthly and quarterly events. The
View has effectively become a business
destination, with some of the region’s most
influential organisations routinely making
use of our offices,” he added.
An innovative partnership forged in 2014, between technology company,
IT@Spectrum and unified communications and IT support specialists,
The One Point, is paying dividends
Technology companies’ HQ
becomes business destination
A compelling package
The View has been purpose-designed to
cement the strategic partnership between
IT@Spectrum and The One Point, with key
teams working together seamlessly to offer
a compelling package of office technology
services.
The offices also enable formal and
informal meetings with customers and
prospective customers, or companies and
other groups that simply want to see the
latest technology being used to deliver
efficiency and productivity.
“The feedback has been really
positive,” Lauer said. “So many people
want to come and look around, see what
we’re doing and use the space and the
technology we have here.”
“One of the best things is that they get
to meet our teams,” he added. “They get
to see we have happy, highly professional
and capable people, proud of what they do
and there is no veil of secrecy. They can go
and sit with the people in finance and with
our support and sales teams. They don’t
just get shepherded into the boardroom,
they have an access-all-areas pass.”
Sarah Downing, Head of Marketing at
the Bondholders which used The View for
its latest Board meeting, said: “It was a
pleasure to use The View. The offices are
really impressive, the facilities are excellent
and the location is so convenient.
“It’s a really positive move by IT@
Spectrum and The One Point to make their
offices available to so many visitors and
reflects the forward-thinking approach they
take to developing links with businesses
across the region and the community
general,” she added.
Businesses and other organisations can
visit and use The View free of charge and
without obligation. The invitation includes
free use of audio visual equipment and
video conferencing, with refreshments also
available.
PARTNERSHIP
It’s been a
revolving
door – every
single day
people are
coming in to
visit us and
make use of
the facilities
in a variety
of ways
