Wechsler spent more than 18 years working as a health scientist for the U.S. Most recently, he served as Chief Executive Officer of the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, where he oversaw one of the nation’s largest school and afterschool health promotion programs. Wechsler comes to FHI 360 with a long and distinguished career as an executive and thought leader working at the crossroads of health and education. ![]() public health and education, as the Director for U.S. Mary Anne Cacciola is a Senior Product Marketing Manager at Nexthink.FHI 360 is pleased to announce the appointment of Howell Wechsler, a leader in U.S. The silver lining in all this is that yes, we’ve saved money, and while it wasn’t our original intent to be greener, we’re happy to also play a small but important role in being more sustainable, and that’s something every technology professional should take seriously. Most apps need 3 or 4 cores to perform well, but we’re more strategic now about when to spend big on a new computer and when and how to get more performance out of older devices with less costly updates.Īnd I think our story is applicable for anyone in IT-not just the non-profit sector. Even today, not all these cores are being used. The goal is to introduce more 8-core machines, which only cost us an additional $175 when we moved from four cores to eight, which helps us future-proof our hardware purchases. This revelation saved us a huge amount of time and headaches and helped kickstart our strategy. We had the visibility to see that higher cores had lesser CPU utilization and relatively few cases of BSODs (Blue Screens Of Death), etc., and the data to back up our findings. Using Nexthink’s platform we were able to find that the offending factor impacting hardware performance came down to core count. Our CIO is driven by making decisions based on actual vs assumptions. Wait-how did you get your hardware purchase order approved so quickly? For most organizations, this can be a real pain! ![]() So, part of it came down to our strong relationship with our vendor, and part of it came down to us isolating exactly which laptops needed to be replaced and what devices we could still salvage and provide a strong UX for employees. We had a unique situation where we had some budget remaining in the final months of the fiscal year that we needed to spend. Luckily, our vendor gave us a heads up early in the pandemic that the chip shortage was going to impact future supply chains and the availability of new equipment. Unl ike the private sector, we d on’t take the approach of replacing hardware as soon as the warranty is up, that’s not cost-effective at all. I was wondering, how could we address the impact and be good fiscal fiduciaries of the budget for our non-profit. But we didn’t have the budget to purchase high-end machines that cost $3k – $5k for every employee-that was simply out of the question. What type of pressure was your team under to find a solution during the chip shortage?Ī lot of employees were looking for more powerful machines, running Power BI, Azure, etc. I sat down with Len Curry (IT Manager) & Terry Brown (Director, Global IT Service Delivery) at FHI 360 to ask them how they managed to pull this off. When the chip shortage first started to impact supply chains, the IT team at FHI360 had to quickly pivot and find a way to extend the lifecycle for most employee devices without jeopardizing their digital experience and efficiency.īy taking a digital-experience-first strategy, they were able to save nearly $400k from purchasing new hardware and divert their investment instead towards a cheaper (and smarter) RAM upgrade, extending device lifecycles. ![]() They employ more than 4,000 workers in 60 countries and partner closely with governments and the private sector and civil society to bring about lifesaving health care, quality education, and social change opportunities for meaningful economic participation.Īnd like any organization (nonprofit or for-profit), they rely heavily on high-performance technologies-laptops, desktops, and mobile devices-to assist workers both in the field and in the office. FHI 360 is an international nonprofit working to improve the health and well-being of people in the United States and around the world.
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