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Finding Solutions FOR RAPID GROWTH SPELLS SUCCESS FOR QUEENSLAND-BASED HIGH-END ELECTRONICS FIRM Michael Sciberras and his brother, Paul, own and operate Sci-Blue Integrated Systems, a specialist integration company founded in Queensland in 2005. Among the services their company…
Finding Solutions FOR RAPID GROWTH SPELLS SUCCESS FOR QUEENSLAND-BASED HIGH-END ELECTRONICS FIRM Michael Sciberras and his brother, Paul, own and operate Sci-Blue Integrated Systems, a specialist integration company founded in Queensland in 2005. Among the services their company provides are the installation, maintenance and servicing of high-end security systems and CCTV systems for customers throughout Australia. “WHETHER IT’S CCTV “First and foremost, the burning issue was coping with growth—in sales, target ACCESS CONTROL, audience, geographic coverage, employee numbers and cash flow issues. Any business duress systems, intercoms or nurse call systems, Sci-Blue offers our clients products and systems that that goes through growth needs to learn fit a budget and meet required outcomes,” Michael how to work smarter, not just harder. We says. “We’re also able to integrate many types of decided that joining with other business electronic systems so they work together and owners who faced similar challenges would provide multiple outcomes for our clients.” help us create a more direct, defined path- way to the outcomes we were looking for.” BROTHERS IN DIFFERENT INDUSTRIES ASK, “WHAT’S NEXT?”
Sci-Blue’s origins grew out of a unique twist of fate. In 2005, Michael and Paul—while working as managers in different industries—found themselves in a position where the businesses they served had been sold and taken over by new owners. Each of them faced a tough decision.
“I mentioned to Paul that I was likely to resign and look for a new employer,” Michael recalls. “To my surprise, he announced he was going to do the same. The obvious question for both of us was, ‘What’s next?’ We’d always spoken of having our own TAB has proved helpful in other ways, too. business and in a short time we decided that we’d join together and start a new “There have been situations where Paul and electronic security business in Brisbane.” I haven’t seen eye to eye on key business decisions,” Michael acknowledges candidly. As time passed, the business steadily grew and now “Claire Wilson [owner of the The Alternative offers high-quality products that primarily relate to Board Queensland and Brisbane Bayside] the protection of property and people. Over the past has helped us look at these situations with three years, the range of offerings has expanded to a fresh perspective and assisted us in include nurse-call products as well. reaching decisions through a defined process. Sometimes, having a third-party WORKING SMARTER, NOT JUST HARDER impartial perspective can make all the difference.” What moved Michael to explore membership in The Alternative Board? WHAT DOES MICHAEL SAY TO OTHER OWNERS CONSIDERING TAB?
“If you’re reaching out for something like this, then you clearly have a reason to do so, and I recommend that you just go ahead and do it,” he says. “We’ve been with TAB for more than two years now, and we’ve seen our company and other member companies dramatically evolve in many ways.”
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