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and, more importantly, failures, in order to improve. When building, growing and cementing any IT function, it is important to hit the ground running as fast as possible and this is something that Donmez actually considers a key success for JTI – its approach to finding the right people, with the right attitude and developing their capabilities. “As long as the team is good enough in its attitude and it is open to learning and to communicating and working together as one, we feel comfortable 8
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enough. Then it’s a matter of time to induct the JTI IT mind-set, our process and our way of working and then how to apply that to the projects we are working on,” he says. Once the people component is under control, Donmez is more confident on delivering global and standard technologies, for which he adheres to global pillars that JTI lives and breathes by. “JTI’s ‘in-source knowledge’ approach is immeasurable comfort for me such that our global IT Business Technology