AIT Puts Army Cross-Training Methodology to Work.FAYETTEVILLE, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 4, 2000 Kirk DeViere may have left the Army, but one of its philosophies followed him to web conglomerate conglomerate, in business conglomerate, corporation whose asset growth, often very rapid, comes largely through the acquisition of, or merger with, other firms whose products are largely unrelated to each other or to that of the parent company. Advanced Internet Technologies (http://aitcom.net). DeViere is among the company officers who began new roles today as part of AIT's cross-training program. "It's easy for employees to become too narrowly-focused on individual tasks and miss out on the big picture of what this company is trying to do," said AIT Chief Executive Clarence Briggs, an ex-Army officer who is also among the presenters at this week's NETventure 2000 trade show in Boston. In all, four officers are involved: Suzy Hrabovsky, the company comptroller, traded places with Deviere, who had been Chief Administrative Officer A chief administrative officer (CAO) is responsible for administrative management of private, public or governmental corporations. The CAO is one of the highest ranking members of an organization, managing daily operations and usually reporting directly to the chief executive . Mike Janicki and Scott Ritchie have swapped positions as Chief Information Officer and Chief Network Officer, respectively. "Periodically cross-training senior level leadership gives them a fuller appreciation of how each department affects the others," said Briggs. "Plus, we think versatile people make for more valuable employees." Rewriting re·write v. re·wrote , re·writ·ten , re·writ·ing, re·writes v.tr. 1. To write again, especially in a different or improved form; revise. 2. the corporate rulebook has become the norm for AIT, a company founded four years ago in Briggs' home and now housed in a 93,000 square foot building with more than 120 employees who support more than 120,000 web sites. "That's part of what makes working for AIT fun," says Hrabovsky. "It's a challenging environment, and it's never boring." Founded as a local company in North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. , AIT has expanded its business through a series of strategic partnerships across the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. to become one of the top hosting companies in the industry. AIT also has expansion plans targeted at the European, Latin American and Asian marketplaces. Through its holding company, AIT also offers a variety of diversified and integrated core competencies A core competency is something that a firm can do well and that meets the following three conditions specified by Hamel and Prahalad (1990):
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