Integrated Approach by EDS

There is ample photographic evidence to show how some of the best-known retail and manufacturing companies have evolved over the years. The shot of staff outside Sainsbury's first shop in London's Drury Lane is a classic: the approach to the grocery business that it embodies is a world very distant from today's self-scan checkouts and loyalty cards. Nearer to our own time, motor car assembly lines pictured in the '50s show none of the intensive automation which now underlies all mass production. We are conscious of change in these situations primarily through those visual records. Companies involved in services like systems integration and consultancy and, however, cannot produce any similar evidence to show how their businesses have evolved over the years. Much of their work is carried out behind the scenes; most of it confidential; all of it a case of providing value through applying knowledge and experience to clients' problems.