![]() "From the top of the Union Pacific organization on down, we have a consistent view of what it means to drive increasingly better and better performance." "A lot of what we're working on is related to operational improvement, safety and asset efficiency," Tennison says. They know they have a role to play in helping to connect the strategic dots, and improve the bottom line, at UP. They also demonstrated what they believe it takes to straddle that leading edge. In interviews and PowerPoint presentations, IT teamers traced the evolutionary path they're mapping. Key projects include implementing a new transportation management system, pushing the detection and derailment prevention envelopes, and employing video-game simulation technology to train and retain today's workers - and possibly pique the interest of tomorrow's. ![]() In late April, I visited with Tennison and several members of his growing IT team at UP headquarters in Omaha, Neb., to discuss current initiatives and challenges. But it's what Tennison and his team are trying to do with that technology - and how other railroad departments and customers ultimately use and benefit from it - that makes IT the driver of "next" at UP. Accordingly, there's "technology in every corner, every curve" of North America's largest freight railroad, another phrase that's part of the information technology (IT) vernacular at UP. The information technology aim at Union Pacific Railroad is to be leading edge, not bleeding edge, as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer Lynden Tennison often says.
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