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Anthony Shaw, Global Senior Vice President, Talent Transformation and Innovation at NTT Ltd., discusses the introduction of new technology and the effect it has had on his organisation and its clients
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TT Ltd. is a global technology services company that brings together the expertise of leaders in the field. The
organisation partners with leading businesses worldwide to achieve success through intelligent technology solutions. To NTT Ltd., intelligent means data driven, connected, digital and secure. Anthony Shaw is the Global Senior Vice President, Talent Transformation and Innovation at NTT Ltd. Having been with the company since 2012, Shaw has enjoyed a career centred around cloud. “In university, I began my career in technology by working in the field of data centres and then worked for several cloud companies,” he explains. “I then joined Dimension Data (an NTT Group company) as a product development specialist and worked primarily on cloud technologies. Three years ago, I switched my career path to look at our transformation internally and build expertise in the company to generate more value for our clients.”
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$11bn Revenue in US dollars
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“ Automation and DevOps is a fine balance between risk and agility” — Anthony Shaw, Global Senior Vice President, Talent Transformation and Innovation, NTT
With a large number of its clients being large enterprises, and government agencies, Shaw believes it’s essential for NTT Ltd. to leverage its expertise of operating in large environments in order to meet the requirements of major organisations. “Automation and DevOps is a fine balance between risk and agility,” says Shaw. “Aside from using our experience of operating in large environments, we also have the technical expertise to automate things. Over the
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“ We have a policy of collaboration across the company so if we work on a solution for a client, then knowledge and IP is shared and reused across the organisation” — Anthony Shaw, Global Senior Vice President, Talent Transformation and Innovation, NTT
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12 influential, NTT Ltd. has begun to scale
to understand data privacy regulation,”
it in order to increase efficiency. “We have
says Shaw. “We’ve built a team that
an example of two teams that
does data privacy research of technolo-
are primarily using AI in analytics; the
gies. When we look at adopting cloud
financial and HR teams,” says Shaw.
technologies, we’ve built processes for
“It is mainly used for predictive studies
assessing the impact on our data pri-
around profitability and control, as well
vacy obligations. It’s important that we
as for analysing trends in the market.
consider how we can still meet our data
On the HR side, it’s important that we
and regulatory requirements, as well as
use it to better understand the market
reflect how we’re responsible for the
to help determine where we should be.”
data that we have.”
Shaw points to data privacy and affirms
NTT Ltd. has Global Delivery Centres
it is one of NTT Ltd.’s biggest challenges.
in India, the Czech Republic and
“It’s not only for big enterprises that
Malaysia to allow for standardisation
data privacy has become important.
across the organisation. “We’re getting
I believe that all online businesses need
more efficient and effective by improving
the processes and those delivery centres, as well as introducing automation,” says Shaw. “It’s far easier to introduce automation with centralised teams.” When seeking to introduce new technologies and processes, NTT Ltd. has an architecture review board in place which determines the value of any potential innovations considered. “If we’re looking to implement new technologies then we have a set of standards that we adhere to from the 13
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Anthony Shaw Anthony Shaw is a globally recognized technology leader with 12 years industry experience in software, cloud and talent management. Anthony graduated from the University of Reading in the UK in 2007 with a Bachelors’ degree in Computer Science & Cybernetics and kickstarted his career in tech as a product manager focusing on cloud-based platforms. In 2013, he joined Dimension Data (an NTT Group company) to manage and grow the software engineering team while also introducing automated testing and other best practices. Since Dimension Data was integrated to form NTT Ltd., Anthony has been leading the innovation and talent development team, where he’s overseeing the talent strategy and talent acquisition, as well as managing the Learning and Development functions.
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“ It’s far easier to introduce automation with centralised teams” — Anthony Shaw, Global Senior Vice President, Talent Transformation and Innovation, NTT 14
vendor architecture or the platforms that we’re looking to introduce,” says Shaw. “We are constantly seeking technology which is fully cloud-enabled and can run in different regions. The architectural review board researches and works with any vendors that we would bring in or any technologies that we would adopt. It would then score those technologies against that standard and once it’s been approved, we would then make a decision based on that investment criteria.”
Over the next couple of years, Shaw expects demand on global network capacity to drive new innovation in IP communications. “We’re developing new technologies to dramatically increase the capacity of the global networks, such as multi-core, multi-mode fiber optic that allows high-capacity transmission with a transmission rate on a single optical fiber that exceeds the current rate by a factor of 100 to 1,000. We’re also making advances in wireless networking, we succeeded in wireless transmission rates of 100 Gb/ sec by using a method devised by NTT combining a principle called “OAM Multiplexing” with MIMO technology. This generates multiple radio waves of different frequencies so that they can transmit simultaneously without interfering with each other.
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