January 2019 Business View Caribbean
58 59 sure we protect and increase our market share,” says Roberts. “Operating in the current economic environment to, basically, implement a strategy of cost containment and try to increase efficiency in every way.We want to remain profitable, provide great service for our customers, and maintain the strength of our brand.” Jimmy Clarke adds his strategic vision. “We’re an integrated building services company and, going forward, we’ll keep growing and building on that as the nature of buildings changes and evolves with net zero, net positive, smart buildings. There are communications, sensors, systems, and the Internet of Things – everything is all interconnected.We see our role for services within buildings, themselves, expanding. That also means we need to be fully connected, internally. Not just amongst ourselves, but with our customers, our suppliers - everyone. There’s a lot more data because all these things occur real-time, and managing the various systems is all done from a single point. It’s quite an interesting time for building services.” From a corporate perspective, Thompson reports, “We’re embarking on ‘green’ initiatives, including our first electric vehicle. The vehicles we have now use fossil fuels and we’re moving toward green power for our fleet. That includes solar power and whatever develops in the future for solar energy.We’re also looking to TMR SALES & SERVICE LTD. expand further into the region. Obviously, it depends on the economy, but that’s where we’d like to be, as a corporation, in the next five years. I always have a positive outlook – in times of hardship you have to look at opportunities that exist and not dwell on what you’re facing, but what you can get out of it.” On the role of technology, Thompson adds, “The World has been exposed to a lot of trauma. Technology is there to support early warning detection systems; gone are the days when we should say we’ve lost a life unnecessarily. There is technology available where you can see, in advance, the development of natural occurrences in real time, for example, a tsunami’s development and path can be monitored PREFERRED VENDOR n Carrier InterAmerica Corporation www.carrierlatam.com and communication to the masses using data that is public and already being used in technological advanced societies; similarly, hurricane development, as well. Maybe even future monitoring of earthquake activity. This data can be used to make intelligent decisions.We can provide the type of software required to deliver intelligent solutions. I’d like to see TMR as a catalyst to provide that sort of information to the Government here in Barbados, and regionally, providing early detection systems that prevent loss of life from natural phenomena. I’d like us to not only be a fire alarm and security service provider, but a company that provides intelligent information for life safety solutions from a national and regional perspective, as well.”
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