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    Volvo IT sends Chinese talent to an IT mission at the Volvo Ocean Race stop in China

    Volvo IT is expanding in China and a national competition among IT students helped attract top-talent university students. Three of them will now join the mission as Volvo IT crew members at the next Volvo Ocean race stop in Sanya, China. They will soon show if they have what it takes to work with IT at the extreme.As the official IT supplier to the Volvo Ocean Race, Volvo IT is on a mission to deliver a world-class IT platform for one of the world’s most extreme sporting competitions. The three winning Chinese IT students, that come from different parts of China, will get the opportunity

    Olle Högblom new President at Volvo IT

    Olle Högblom, 50, has been appointed President Volvo IT. Olle Högblom is currently Senior Vice President Infrastructure & Operations at Volvo IT in Gothenburg, Sweden. The appointment is effective immediately.Olle Högblom has a long history at the Volvo Group. He joined the Group in 1989 and has had various executive managerial positions within Volvo IT and Volvo Car Corporation. Olle Högblom succeeds Magnus Carlander who has taken up the position as head of the newly formed function Corporate Process and IT. January 19, 2012 Journalists who would like more information, please

    Volvo IT's Commute Greener appointed as this year's sustainable project

    Volvo IT's web and mobile service for environmentally friendly commuting, Commute Greener, has been named the 2011 most environmentally friendly project by the CIO Magazine in Sweden.Commute Greener serves as a personal CO2 calculator where you are encouraged to reduce your environmental impact by commuting to and from work. To increase motivation, the results can be published on Facebook and you can also form groups to, in a friendly way, challenge each other."By setting targets for reducing the carbon emissions, encouraging each individual is motivated to choose cleaner transports, such

    Mexico City gets cleaner air and a certificate to Commute Greener! by Volvo IT

    An innovative approach by the Mexico City authorities made it possible for employees to change their commuting pattern and reduce their carbon footprint by up to 40%. Using Commute Greener!, a web and mobile phone solution from Volvo IT, it is possible to significantly reduce congestion, lower CO2 emissions and create savings in terms of health, fuel costs and the environment. Five large organisations in the Mexico City administration were the first to use Commute Greener! in Mexico. The authorities in Mexico City have now earned the first certificate of achievement given in the Americas.“

    Volvo IT delivers world-class IT platform for Volvo Ocean Race

    Volvo IT has been selected as Official IT supplier for the upcoming Volvo Ocean Race, which starts from Alicante, Spain, in October next year.  Volvo IT will provide the IT platform, ensuring effective communications at each of the ten cities, which the race will visit during the course of the event.As the IT supplier to the two previous Volvo Ocean Races, Volvo IT has proven capabilities to deploy a world-class IT infrastructure that can keep pace with the extreme nature of the Volvo Ocean Race.  Volvo IT has the challenge to build and operate a flexible infrastructure under tight

    City Employees commuted a distance corresponding to 235 marathons without carbon emissions

    In only 10 weeks, employees of the City of Gothenburg have succeeded in reducing their carbon emissions through changes in their commuting habits using Commute Greener, a new mobile phone and web application from Volvo IT.  One of the groups actually succeeded in reducing its carbon emissions by as much as two thirds. To date, 9,900 zero-emission kilometers have been registered – a distance corresponding to 235 marathons.The balance between the growing need for transport, on the one hand, and the environment and health, on the other, poses a constant challenge for municipal planners,

    Volvo IT signs agreement with Storebrand

    Volvo IT, a business unit within the Volvo Group, has signed an agreement with the Norwegian insurance company Storebrand covering several years. The agreement, which has been signed with the parent company, involves the operation of systems that manage the insurance company’s funds for the Swedish markets in its subsidiary SPP. This agreement is Volvo IT’s first deal outside Volvo Group companies in Norway.“As far as Storebrand was concerned, Volvo IT was an extremely interesting supplier,” says Knut-Olav Hoeg, purchasing director at Storebrand. “In the procurement process we conducted,

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