AINEO is known for being BQF(Bright, Quick, Flexible). People like dealing with us because we are BQF. There is a lot of negative sources in this world; the news, other folks in business, economic situations. There are many people with many reasons to be negative.
AINEO is a positive force. We are all about finding solutions to situations. Of course, we are not a church or a counseling service so we don’t focus on working people out their hang-ups. But for technology, our whole business has been made up of 11 years of helping people with their technology hang ups.
It is very exciting as we have helped the major dot coms, airlines, financial institutions, banks, pharmaceutical firms, manufacturers, and many government organizations (to name a few) to fix their IT trouble in New York, Hong Kong, and Tokyo. Not just Tokyo, but in 2007 we added close to 100 customers nationwide in Japan.
AINEO is all about solutions. We’re not here to talk about how things used to be or whine about the trouble. AINEO brings solutions and a positive outlook to any technology situation and many more people issues.
One site, the world’s largest financial company, purchased 3 companies and merged them together with a small core of their own people in Tokyo. Of course, when you try to create one corporate culture out of four you are going to have some challenges. AINEO brought 30 locations into 15 locations nationwide. We worked with branch managers, international IT management, and the local executive board to bring it all together.
It was not easy but over the year of this first major AINEO project in 1996, we set the tone and set the standard. We left the site with many friends that were asking us advice and even have asked us to help them as they have moved to other companies or higher phases in their careers.
In AINEO’s Tokyo office, we’ve got a positive, can do attitude. One of our team greeted someone in the elevator. That person from a company upstairs in our building commented, “you guys on the 7th floor are always so happy”. Being positive rubs off.
Even the janitors of our floor of our Tokyo offices were affected in a positive light. Of course, janitorial service can probably be a thankless job. It started that way for the folks taking care of AINEO. They were not exactly excited about their jobs. However, after working with the AINEO team, our smiles, our happy greetings, our questions about how they were doing, all broke through. Our cleaning folks said they started looking forward to cleaning our floor so that they could talk with the Tokyo AINEO team in the morning.
People that AINEO sees every day are happy to work with us! Of course, we all need to be paid to grow in business, but the wonderful compliments of people working with our team every day are priceless. Being positive certainly pays off.