Columbia Sportswear maintains its message while on the move using Microsoft Exchange Server.

Manufacturing Business Technology, May, 2007

By Carolyn Heinze, contributing editor Anyone who likes sitting at a desk all day would not be happy working at Columbia Sportswear . More than 1,000 of its 2,700 employees spend 40 percent of their time on the road, with much of that travel taking them to remote locales where the company's outdoor clothing and recreational equipment typically can be found.

The company also encourages sporting retreats like a statewide bicycle trip or an adventurous trek in the woods. But none of this activity deters the Portland, Ore.-based company from its primary mission: making high-quality recreational equipment. In fact, the need to keep employees productive while they are on the go drives Columbia Sportswear's IT strategy, which seeks to enable...

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