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Our marketing team, almost all of whom have long commutes, particularly appreciate the flexibility and ability to work from home. Thanks to the easy virtual collaboration with Office apps, more people work from home-a preferred way of life for many of our employees.
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Mobility has also affected how we structure our work weeks at Red Wing. In what could have been a chaotic environment, we shared and collaborated on files to build a set of deliverables, assign and track tasks, and meet our report deadlines-all from one highly secure Teams workplace. We also saved 10 to 15 percent of total project time when we launched a new billing process for customers who provide vouchers to their employees to buy Red Wing work boots-that’s about 60 days of labor. For instance, our reps, accountants, controllers, and business process specialists created Teams channels to take advantage of persistent chat and track conversations-streamlining a complicated project that included a partner in Kansas City. And, to safeguard corporate data, we are starting to use Microsoft Intune to manage sales reps’ mobile devices.Īs the hub for teamwork and project management, it’s a fantastic platform for collaboration internally and with our partners, retailers, and supply chain. Today, our 200 sales reps stay hugely productive on the road because they use the Outlook mobile app and other Office mobile apps to work on price lists and product catalogues. Now that we replaced shared files with cloud storage, accessing corporate information takes one click, and everyone knows where to get the latest updates and financial, inventory, and month-end reports. For example, marketing folks in Houston, Scotland, Norway, and Dubai collaborate on RFPs faster than ever using Office 365 video capabilities, Microsoft Teams, Office mobile apps, and OneDrive file storage. We use Office 365 apps to reduce silos and connect people everywhere. Shifting to this cloud-based tool set has had an immediate and tangible impact on the way we do business. Red Wing chose Microsoft 365 and Azure to advance these business strategies. When I came on board, our IT team wanted to support expansion into new markets, while retaining our corporate culture and delivering a workplace tool set that would empower 2,300 employees to excel in a digital world. warehouses, with an additional 45 global retailers and sales offices in Norway, Scotland, Dubai, and Japan. Today, we have 700 retail locations, two footwear manufacturing facilities, one tannery, and three U.S. Fifteen years ago, everyone who worked here lived in Red Wing, Minnesota. manufacturer is expanding globally in a retail space that’s stagnating at best. I also like that this traditional, midmarket U.S. That brand tenacity and the family-oriented culture of caring for customers-whose work boots are as important a tool as a hammer-attracted me to the company. In business for 115 years, Red Wing Shoe Company embodies its staying power in each pair of Red Wings produced. Today’s post was written by Marc Kermish, chief information officer at Red Wing Shoe Company.