Stephanie Price: In your prepared remarks, you mentioned the prioritization of employee certifications and opportunities around supporting partner technology platforms. Just hoping to dig a little bit more into this opportunity and what phase of this process you’re in?
George Schindler: As you know, about a year ago, we announced the promotion of nine different strategic partnerships to a global level. And so, that’s kind of the priority that we have. And then within those areas were work in conjunction with those partners because, by doing that, we’re working with them at an executive level. What areas are they investing in? And therefore, what areas should we be investing in? Not the legacy, but where they’re going and where they’re heading. So that’s what I mean by the prioritization. It’s actually going quite well. We started from a position where we didn’t have as much of that relationship, and so it’s going very well. And we offer something to these platform providers that maybe others don’t, given that strong base of intellectual property.
And so, there’s joint partnerships where we can go to market together, where we build some of our IP to run on top of their platforms, therefore it’s not just us doing integration of their platform, but us helping to drive their platform further into the enterprises that they’re in or that we’re in. So, of course, we do that in an agnostic way, and in conjunction with our partners, just like they do with their SI partners. But it’s where we find that synergy, it’s good for everybody. It’s good for us. It’s good for our partner, and it’s good for our clients.
Operator: Your next question comes from Daniel Chan from TD.
Daniel Chan: I wanted to do a double click on your European and Scandinavian markets where you’re booking uncertain macro backdrop in the quarter. What do you think was driving some of that? Is it a better-than-expected macro outcome? Or is it some of the management changes that you’ve recently made?
George Schindler: I would say it’s more of the latter. We had some structural changes we needed to address. It’s great to see that Scandinavia is now growing as an entity. We still have a little more work to do. You can see that in the numbers. And it’s really now though, it’s about shifting the mix of business. I always talk about the mix of business. And it’s about shifting the mix of business. That takes a little more time. But returning to growth, addressing some of the cost structural items is really the difference maker there. And again, yeah, it’s an interesting backdrop on the macro environment, but it’s really about pivoting to the value added services that our clients are looking for, and that the team has done a great job of that pivot.
Operator: . Your next question comes from Jason Kupferberg from Bank of America. Please go ahead.
Jason Kupferberg: I just wanted to ask on headcount growth. Looks like net headcount growth was pretty de minimis quarter-over-quarter. So just wanted to see if we can unpack that a little bit because I know, George, you referenced a little bit of choppiness as it relates to certain parts of digital right now, just in terms of a little client hesitancy in certain pockets of the business. So is the limited headcount growth just a reflection of the uncertain kind of way forward on demand from here? And I guess just in terms of managing our expectations, you just had a really strong book-to-bill quarter in the December quarter, would you expect that to soften to some extent in the March quarter just because of some of these cross currents that you referenced?
