Taking on the Data Center

It's important, Tierney adds, not to limit employees to the areas that they have traditionally worked in.

"You've got to balance and blend the strong characteristics of your operation and pick up some of the strong characteristics of the other operation to make the entire [operation] good," he says. "Take advantage of the strengths. You take some of your seasoned leaders, regardless of their expertise, and you move them over [to the other area] because their leadership skills are [required] to help the total operation."