Mike Askew

At Datacom, they believe that cleverly applied information technology (IT) can make a demonstrable difference to their clients' businesses in a world of high expectations and limited resources. Their role is to assist organizations to deploy IT to meet this opportunity. Essentially as an IT Services Provider, they build and run applications and platforms to support both existing processes and new ways of doing business. The efficiency and refinement of such systems distinguish an organization, and a small edge in time to market translates into sustained advantage. Their world class capability and their people ensure they are able to provide this edge by offering their clients value for money services and products. This is underpinned by a genuine commitment to, and understanding of, their clients' businesses which has seen them achieve significant industry, sector and global recognition through a number of awards. Their success is due to a number of factors including the ability to attract some of Australasia's most highly skilled IT professionals. Their enviable staff retention record endorses Datacom as the employer of choice for talented IT professionals while, the company's ability to retain excellence and attract innovation is governed by a simple principle. They believe that good people doing good work, attracting good customers and projects, attracting more good people, is fuel for a virtuous spiral delivering high performance and value.

Datacom Group Ltd. designs and builds information technology systems. It offers business process, customer engagement, financial and consulting services. The company was founded by Paul Hargreaves in 1965 is headquartered in Wellington, New Zealand.