Society

Europe's society is currently after 250 years of industrial economy changing to a knowledge economy. Many people are currently still working 'industrial', with fixed working hours, fixed working location and a hard hierarchy in the organisation. This will now change to a society where people collaborate and create value together.

Europe is becoming a real knowledge economy where innovation is the new competetive weapon and employees get more freedom and responsibility to do professional and personal what they like most and are the best at.

Effectively using and adjusting ICT and processes plays a crucial role to facilitate this knowledge economy.

People

The young people of today have grown up with computers, mobile phones, internet and social networks. These flexible people don't need fixed working hours or locations to do their jobs. Living, learning and working are one for them. It all depends on eachother and they want to have fun in all three. This means that organisations must align with the identity of their employees.

They are both social and very capable to do things independently. They are able to quickly gather a large amount of information from web sites and social contacts and then filter it based on quality and relevance. Being able to get knowledge fast also makes them share information easily with others.

Values

We want to positively contribute within our capabilities to the changes in society and with people as described in the vision.

We really believe that society will be better, when people collaborate more. Not only within a company, but also between companies and people as partnerships or networks. Collaboration is also about trust. Trust from your own colleagues, customers, suppliers and other organisations you work or live with. This means managing on result, fun and development and not on effort or process itself.

Treat employees as entrepreneurs to operate optimally as a company. Giving them freedom and responsibility will make the innovative, productive and loyal colleagues.

Collaboration also means knowing your own strengths and weaknesses, defining your core business and making smart use of your network. Open innovation is essential to compete in the knowledge economy, because the largest part of knowledge is outside your organisation.

Not only innovation results in a better society, but also corporate social and environmental responsibility

We contribute less to traffic and air pollution, because we can work a lot from home, by working flexible and result driven.

Besides that we try to reduce power usage of hardware for our services by making use of cloud computing. Traditional hardware is only waiting most of the time until something must be done. With cloud computing the amount of used hardware is determined by the amount of activity in the applications.