About Paul Bender

Head of Public Sector Marketing - Atos North America

Paul has primary responsibility for digital marketing, communications, segment awareness, demand generation, pipeline acceleration and sales enablement. Paul is a Public Sector marketing veteran with 20 years of experience focused on strategy, planning, and program management.

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It’s the first to communicate that wins the war: 10 ways defense CIOs can use UC

Posted on: April 16, 2018 by Paul Bender How to maintain continuity of communications in event of an emergency with unified communications In the classic western gunfight, it’s the first to the draw that wins. A parallel in the modern conflict environment shaped by the effects of terrorism and…

Ready for military action: How UC is changing the landscape for defense communications

Posted on: May 10, 2018 by Paul Bender At the heart of any successful military organization is the imperative to improve decision-making, both in the context of mission engagement to enable operational tempo and in making smart value-for-money decisions. Technology is bringing about change to the military culture and behaviors towards information. Information…

Satisfying defense information needs with unified communications

Posted on: March 28, 2018 by Paul Bender “In the high-stakes fast-moving environment of defense there can be no more efficient and quicker model for keeping defense personnel connected” The application of unified communications represents an exponential leap in the capability to exchange information quickly and accurately among defense personnel. The communications domain of the defense community is like no other. It…

Effective Digital Transformations for Government

We spend a lot of time discussing digital transformation at Atos. For the other half of the world, Public Sector, McKinsey has recently published some analysis that I think you’ll find interesting. This piece comes to us via Steve Cheng, a partner in McKinsey’s New York office. “U.S. federal and state agencies face a formidable challenge: to deliver services of increasing quality…

10 reasons defense organizations need a unified communications strategy

Modern defense organizations are an ecosystem, complex environments widely dispersed, a fusion of technology, equipment and personnel. The popular view presents technology at the most cutting-edge. Air, land and maritime platforms accomplishing incredible feats of performance to deliver precise effects. Critical to the almost science fiction-like capability of modern weapons technology and engineering systems are the…

Workforce Productivity in Government: The Case for Collaboration

Government agencies need their workforces to perform smarter, faster and more productively. And that means embedding collaborative technologies deep into processes – transforming the way organizations turn knowledge into action. Collaboration platforms need to do more than simply enable employees to talk about their work – they need to create new ways for employees to do their work.…

Workforce Productivity in Government: The Case for Teleworking

Did you know that in the District of Columbia, almost a third of federal employees commute over 180 minutes a day. I’ve certainly been there. That’s a lot of dead time which contributes to: unscheduled absences; poor punctuality; less availability; higher staff attrition; recruitment challenges; and negative environmental impacts. And, think about this: ‘going to work’ requires a…

Workforce Productivity in Government: A Collaboration Revolution

For Public Sector agencies looking to jump on the unified communications bandwagon, bringing together voice, video, screen share, messaging and file-sharing into a single platform-agnostic application can deliver a ‘single pane of glass’ collaboration tool that’s designed for the way organizations and people work today. By overlaying existing productivity tools, agencies can continue to leverage their existing assets while…

Workforce Productivity in Government: Where to Start

Where to start Many federal agencies are now looking at home working to save money, ensure continuity of operations during regional and national emergencies, and to provide a more citizen-friendly extended hours service. While this raises undoubted technical and operational considerations – not least the adoption of new approaches to training and evaluation – Office of Personnel Management (OPM)…

Unlocking Workforce Productivity in Government

By Paul Bender, Global Public Sector Marketing With agencies tasked with delivering a modernized, streamlined and ultimately more citizen facing federal government environment, the focus on staff productivity and working practices has never been so great. Happily, and echoing moves already showing success in the private sector, the rapid evolution of workplace technology offers new and exciting opportunities for federal planners to…