{"id":12238,"date":"2020-10-29T15:17:47","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T21:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gsb.lat\/lessons-learned-from-the-pandemic\/"},"modified":"2023-04-04T09:55:17","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T15:55:17","slug":"lessons-learned-from-the-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gsb.lat\/en\/lessons-learned-from-the-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons learned from the pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The pandemic has shaken everyone’s foundations: very solid companies no longer exist, but others have grown tremendously.<\/p>\n\n

I am grateful for the fact that I moved from Mexico to Brazil almost 7 years ago. That change forced me to work remotely and from home.<\/p>\n\n

At first it was difficult (believe me, very difficult considering that the language is Portuguese). It took me more than a year to get used to it, but the important thing was to understand the benefits of working under this modality.<\/p>\n\n

Given this experience, in our company we implemented Home Office <\/strong>almost 4 years ago in a partial way, 2 or 3 days in the office and the rest at home. We share some cases and lessons that helped us to overcome this situation:<\/p>\n\n

– We have been a Microsoft<\/strong> partner for more than 10 years. Having state-of-the-art technology and tools like TEAMS<\/strong> allowed us to stay one step ahead and always communicate.<\/p>\n\n

– We uploaded many of our systems to the cloud, that is, with just an Internet connection it was easy to work from anywhere and, in addition to that, having ONE DRIVE<\/strong> made it easy to share and work with our documents.<\/p>\n\n

– All team members already had laptops, we no longer used the desktops.<\/p>\n\n

– We developed our collaborative systems with SHAREPOINT<\/strong>, which streamlined our processes and, being remote, allowed us to perform the necessary flows and operation.<\/p>\n\n

– The whole company was trained in the best practices of Project Management in a traditional way(PMI<\/strong>) and in an agile way(SCRUM<\/strong>), which gave a sense and order to the work.<\/p>\n\n

– We created a COVID-19 Kit, which was distributed to the entire team. This consisted of protective masks, face masks, alcohol gel, mouth masks, gloves, among others.<\/p>\n\n

– As we know that we depend on electrical energy we decided to invest in UPS<\/strong> (No breaks) and distribute them to the equipment to support at least 2 to 3 hours of disconnection. So far it has been a success.<\/p>\n\n

– We obviously switched to working 100% from home and do not plan to return until next year.<\/p>\n\n

– During this pandemic we did something incredible, we changed the whole company, we went from a traditional organization to a project organization, we changed the governance model.<\/p>\n\n

We are currently remodeling the offices in order to increase the space and respect the new normal that the pandemic has brought us. What I can say is that it affected us a lot, but it allowed us to reflect, act and be ready for this new reality.<\/p>\n\n

Fortunately, at the close of this article (October), we can say that we are operating at 100%, it took us a while to recover, but we did it. I am always grateful to the entire GSB Solutions family. Thank you and let’s go for more!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Eng. Ben Orta<\/p>\n\n

Managing Director GSB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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