Ian Heard

Ian is the Modern Workplace Lead at Microsoft Australia, responsible for the Go-to-Market leadership for Microsoft 365 Enterprise. Prior to Microsoft Ian had over 15 years' experience in the Digital Workplace, Collaboration and Unified Comm…unication markets, including general management at a range of small, mid-size and multi-national Partners, most recently as Dimension Data's Global SVP for Collaboration managing a $1bn+ revenue line across 52 countries

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Take the meeting into a virtual room

What you do in a physical meeting room can be replicated in a virtual meeting, making collaboration for employees in different time zones and regions a reality.

April 30, 2018 by Ian Heard in Intelligent Communications / Brought to you by Microsoft Intelligent Communications

Transforming communications is not a discussion of whether to replace handsets with headsets!

There's no need to throw away telephones with an outdated telephony strategy. Let your staff choose for themselves.

April 23, 2018 by Ian Heard in Intelligent Communications / Brought to you by Microsoft Intelligent Communications

Are Telephony strategies as useful as paper clip strategies?

It's a "brave new voice world", where the way we collaborate and communicate in our working lives is being transformed by cloud technology. If you're only looking at the features and benefits of phone usage by staff, then you're missing out on an array of communications tools to advance the way people work.

April 23, 2018 by Ian Heard in Intelligent Communications / Brought to you by Microsoft Intelligent Communications