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Qgroup invests in IT consultant CoreChange

<h3>Following the transaction, Qgroup owns 25 percent of the shares in the parent company CoreChange Group AB.</h3>
CoreChange was founded in 2013 and is a fast-growing IT consulting company with operations in Stockholm and Gothenburg. In 2021, the company had sales of approximately SEK 160 million and more than 100 employees. The business concept is to drive their customers&#8217; digital journey of change &#8211; from strategy to implementation and realization. The basic offer includes consulting services, primarily in business systems and e-commerce for customers in both the private and public sectors.
The investment in CoreChange means that Qgroup buys 25 percent of the parent company&#8217;s shares. The transaction takes place through a new share issue, which at the same time ensures the CoreChange Group&#8217;s continued expansion going forward.
Jon Carvell, CEO of Qgroup: 
“Investing in CoreChange is just right for us &#8211; now we are adding a well-run and fast-growing company to our group. The deal also means that we are entering the business systems (SAP) segment for the first time. This opens up a new arena for us to grow in, and we are very much looking forward to further developing the company together with the existing management. ”
Robert Åberg, CEO of CoreChange: 
“We have methodically built up our company over a ten-year period and are now ready to shift up further. The addition in the form of capital and expertise from Qgroup means that CoreChange can continue its growth journey and, at the same time, gain access to a strong customer portfolio. The cultural similarities are striking, and it is well in line with our partnership strategy to work together with like-minded people in the industry. We look forward to a fun and successful journey together.”
Mikael Kretz, co-founder of Qgroup, will in the future be part of CoreChange Group&#8217;s board.

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The Qgroup Scholarship awarded to OatLab

<h3>Since 2014, Qgroup has awarded selected students with the Qgroup Scholarship. Recipients are graduates from the Master’s Programme in Entrepreneurship &amp; Innovation at Lund University.</h3>
This year, the scholarship is awarded to Team OatLab AKA &#8211; Amrit Gill, Anne Offringa &amp; Teddy van der Vlugt for the following reasons:
“In their start-up project, they offer a commercialisation avenue to a Lund University innovation of a novel method to emulsify oat oil. And thus, their start-up offers – in their own words: “Sweden’s first oat-based skincare line, made for conscious consumers who want to nourish both self and planet, by eliminating chemical additives and using ethically-sourced ingredients.”
Mikael Kretz, co-founder of Qgroup:
“It’s an honor to be present at the graduation ceremony yet again and to be able to hand out our scholarship to students who have made an impression with their innovation. Our own identity lies in questioning old truths and paving the way for new thinking. Hence, this scholarship lies close to our hearts. I’m thrilled to see so many aspiring students and ideas, and we hope to make a difference by highlighting the winners and offering them monetary support.” 
The Qgroup Scholarship is an award of 20.000 SEK.

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Qgroup buys into fast-growing digital agency

<h3>Qgroup becomes a partner in Fully Studios by acquiring 20 percent of the company. The deal means that Qgroup strengthens its offering within brand development &amp; design.</h3>
Fully Studios is an award-winning Swedish studio in Gothenburg and Stockholm that offers services in web and app development, film, and gaming. With a total of 26 employees, the company has sales of approximately SEK 20 million. In recent years, Fully Studios has invested in its offer in digital development. Among other things, it has generated attention from DI Gasell, which has named Fully Studios one of Sweden’s fastest-growing companies for three years in a row in 2019, 2020, and 2021.
Jon Carvell, CEO of Qgroup: 
“We have worked with Fully as a partner for several years and know their level of quality. Their edge in brand design has so far generated strong growth, and it’s also in this segment that we will continue to invest in together. Qgroup, therefore, strengthens its range of services with an important complement to our other business areas, and which is highly demanded by our customers.”
Robin Kollberg, Creative Director at Fully Studios: 
“I’m really looking forward to the journey we are now starting with Qgroup, which is one of Sweden’s fastest-growing IT consulting companies. Our collaboration has been going on since 2013, and we know each other well. We have the same view on how to generate growth, profitability, and value. Having Qgroup as a partner strengthens our growth journey and gives our employees access to a business drive and an extremely exciting corporate culture.”
<h4>For more information, please contact:</h4>
Jon Carvell, CEO, Qgroup 
<a href="mailto:jon.carvell@qgroup.se">jon.carvell@qgroup.se</a> 
<a href="tel:+46 (0)708-707500">+46 (0)708-707500</a>
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<h3>In Swedish</h3>
Qgroup köper in sig I snabbväxande digital byrå
Qgroup blir delägare i Fully Studios genom att köpa 20 procent av bolaget. Affären innebär att Qgroup stärker sitt erbjudande med brand development &amp; design.
Fully Studios är en prisbelönt svensk studio i Göteborg och Stockholm som erbjuder tjänster inom webb- och apputveckling, film och spel. Med totalt 26 anställda omsätter bolaget cirka 20 mkr.
Fully Studios har de senaste åren investerat i sitt erbjudande inom digital utveckling. Det har bland annat genererat uppmärksamhet av DI Gasell, som utsett Fully Studios till ett av Sveriges snabbast växande företag tre år i rad 2019, 2020 och 2021.
Jon Carvell, VD på Qgroup: 
”Vi har arbetat med Fully som leverantör i flera år och vet vilken höjd de håller. Deras edge inom brand design har hittills genererat stark tillväxt, och det är också inom denna del som vi kommer att fortsätta att investera i tillsammans. Qgroup stärker därmed sitt tjänsteutbud med ett viktigt komplement till våra övriga affärsområden, och som efterfrågas i hög grad av våra kunder.”
Robin Kollberg, Creative Director på Fully Studios: 
&#8220;Jag ser verkligen fram emot resan som vi nu startar med Qgroup, som är ett av Sveriges snabbast växande it-konsultbolag. Vårt samarbete har pågått sedan 2013 och vi känner varandra väl. Vi har samma syn på hur man genererar tillväxt, lönsamhet och värde på sikt. Att ha Qgroup som delägare stärker vår tillväxtresa och ger våra medarbetare tillgång till ett affärsdriv och en oerhört spännande företagskultur.”
För mer information, vänligen kontakta:
Jon Carvell, CEO, Qgroup 
<a href="mailto:jon.carvell@qgroup.se">jon.carvell@qgroup.se</a> 
<a href="tel:+46 (0)708-707500">+46 (0)708-707500</a>

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Qgroup publishes annual report for 2021

<h3>Qgroup’s annual report 2021 is now available <a href="https://storage.mfn.se/2530bfc6-4f6f-40fd-889c-f763cbdeb4fc/qgroup-arsredovisning-2021.pdf">here</a></h3>
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<h4>Key figures 2021</h4>
1 Jan &#8211; 31 Dec 
Net sales amounted to SEK 506.2 million (398.9) 
Organic sales growth amounted to 26.9% (2.4) 
Operating profit amounted to SEK 52.4 million (15.1) 
The operating margin was 10.4% (3.8)
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<h4>Jon Carvell, CEO of Qgroup, comments:</h4>
“Qgroup entered 2021 with self-confidence and is now reporting a record year straight through, which really focused on the importance of both delivering good profitability and at the same time investing for the future and in the technologies that are changing our industry.
In 2021, Qgroup increased its net sales by almost 27 percent to SEK 506 million (399) and significantly improved operating profit to just over SEK 50 million (15). There is obviously a great need for our consultants’ expertise in the market.
Under the theme “Shaping the new way of consulting,” our annual report describes the Qgroup Group’s strategy and the activities that made 2021 a record year. The report also shows how Qgroup’s basic philosophy &#8211; to start and develop successful companies around people and their skills &#8211; has led to a record number of new recruits and highly motivated consultants who think new and where the word “impossible” does not exist. In total, more than 181 employees joined Qgroup, which is a doubling in the number of recruits compared with the previous year.
Virtually all of our 30 subsidiaries and 5 associated companies were successful in 2021. We also started a new company in Poland and a joint venture in India. Today, the Group has operations in ten countries and twenty locations in Europe, the USA, and Asia. The ambition is to establish Qgroup in many more places around the world in the coming years.
All this contributes to Qgroup’s attractiveness as an employer and facilitates the recruitment of the best consultants to our companies.”
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<h4>For more information, please contact:</h4>
Jon Carvell, CEO, Qgroup 
<a href="mailto:jon.carvell@qgroup.se">jon.carvell@qgroup.se</a> 
<a href="tel:+46 (0)708-707500">+46 (0)708-707500</a>
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<h3>In Swedish</h3>
Qgroup publicerar årsredovisning för 2021
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Nyckeltal 2021
1 jan &#8211; 31 dec 
Nettoomsättningen uppgick till 506,2 mkr (398,9) 
Organisk omsättningstillväxt uppgick till 26,9% (2,4) 
Rörelseresultatet uppgick till 52,4 mkr (15,1) 
Rörelsemarginalen uppgick till 10,4% (3,8)
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Jon Carvell, VD Qgroup, kommenterar:
”Qgroup gick in i 2021 med gott självförtroende och rapporterar nu ett rekordår rakt igenom, som verkligen satte fokus på betydelsen av att både leverera en god lönsamhet och samtidigt investera för framtiden och i de teknologier som förändrar vår bransch. Qgroup ökade sin nettoomsättning med nästan 27 procent till 562 miljoner kronor (399) och förbättrade rörelseresultatet avsevärt till drygt 50 miljoner kronor (15). Det finns uppenbarligen ett stort behov av våra konsulters kompetens på marknaden.
Under temat ”Shaping the new way of consulting” beskriver vår årsredovisning Qgroup-koncernens strategi och de aktiviteter som gjorde att 2021 blev ett rekordår. Rapporten visar också på hur Qgroups grundfilosofi &#8211; att starta och ut­veckla framgångsrika bolag runt människor och deras kompetens – har lett till ett rekord i antal nya rekryter och högt motiverade konsul­ter som tänker nytt och där ordet ”omöjligt” inte existerar. Totalt anslöt över 181 medarbetare till Qgroup, vilket är en fördubbling i antal rekryterade jämfört med året innan.
I stort sett var alla våra 30 egna bolag samt 5 intressebolag framgångsrika 2021. Vi startade dessutom upp ett nytt bolag i Polen samt ett joint venture i Indien. I dag har koncernen verksamheter i tio länder och tjugo platser i Europa, USA och Asien. Ambitionen är att sätta ner Qgroup-flaggan på många fler platser runtom i världen de kommande åren.
Allt detta bidrar definitivt till Qgroups attraktivitet som arbetsgivare och underlättar rekryteringen av de bästa konsulterna till våra bolag.”
För mer information, vänligen kontakta:
Jon Carvell, CEO, Qgroup 
<a href="mailto:jon.carvell@qgroup.se">jon.carvell@qgroup.se</a> 
<a href="tel:+46 (0)708-707500">+46 (0)708-707500</a>

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Qgroup announces its partnership with Indian communications and technology company, Schbang.

Qgroup sets foot in India with its brand-new joint venture SchbangQ

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Born out of the partnership between Schbang and Qgroup, SchbangQ will leverage Qgroup&#8217;s IT expertise and technological competencies and Schbang&#8217;s talent sourcing and understanding of the Indian market. This new joint venture aims to provide digital transformation, digital strategy, and IT consulting services across different industries.
<a href="https://www.schbang.com/">Schbang</a> is a digital creative and technology transformation company based out of Mumbai, India. Led by Harshil Karia, the company has worked with a wide range of high-profile clients such as Jio, Pidilite Industries, Xiaomi, Ashok Leyland, Tata Communications, Godrej, and Beiersdorf. With over 500 employees spread across three cosmopolitan cities in India in less than 5 years, Schbang has created a strong impact with its creative and technology work.
SchbangQ is a global company embarking upon the future of work, life, career, and personal development built on the many lessons learned by company founders across the globe. With SchbangQ, we hope to positively impact building, reinventing, and transforming IT consulting across the world. This association holds the opportunity for future Indo-Swedish collaborations in business and trade.
<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/harshilk">Harshil Karia</a>, Schbang&#8217;s founder, commented on this joint venture, saying, &#8220;This partnership with Qgroup is the start of a promising new chapter for Schbang in the space of IT. Over the last 5 years, our technology team has been growing in prowess, winning the trust of CxOs, and this new offering with Qgroup will enable us to provide a significantly wider variety of technology solutions to help serve both Indian and Global Markets.&#8221;
One of Qgroup’s founders and executive partner, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikaelkretz/">Mikael Kretz</a>, expressed, &#8220;We are creating a new powerhouse with Schbang! We are so excited and are really looking forward to this collaboration! Together, we are exceeding the threshold of 1,000 employees, which would greatly impact the markets where we operate.&#8221;
For more information, please contact:
Mikael Kretz 
<a href="mailto:mikael.kretz@qgroup.se">mikael.kretz@qgroup.se</a>

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Hermes Group is a premium full-service event company with leading sustainability practices within the event industry in Sweden.

Hermes Group Becomes Part of Qgroup

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Hermes Group is a premium full-service event company with leading sustainability practices within the event industry in Sweden. They have a great deal of experience with internal and external events, both digital and in-person. The company is always aiming for climate-smart solutions and strong leadership, maintaining a professional and personal relationship with everyone involved. Hermes Group is one of the founding members of a climate acceleration community called &#8220;Backing the Future,&#8221; which aims to accelerate the transition towards a sustainable world.
Qgroup and Hermes Group have been partners since 2015. We found common ground sharing similar values like the passion for people, leadership, and creating unique experiences. Hermes Group has been a loyal supplier to Qgroup and its daughter companies, delivering epic events and travel experiences throughout the years.
&#8220;It is a key milestone and an exciting moment to become part of the Qgroup family. We have done unforgettable events together over the past years, which have positively impacted and surprised the employees. We are thrilled to continue to surprise and contribute to the amazing spirit that Qgroup has,&#8221; expressed Anna Hermes, Hermes Group CEO.
Qgroup&#8217;s CEO, Jon Carvell, highlights that &#8220;in addition to delivering high-quality events for Qgroup and our companies Hermes Group and &#8220;Backing the Future&#8221; will also play an essential role in supporting Qgroup on its sustainability journey by getting the company to transition to a climate-neutral and fully sustainable company in a few years.&#8221;

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Swedish Entrepreneurs Martin Gren and Joel Eklund join Qgroup as New Investors.

Qgroup Welcomes Swedish Entrepreneurs Martin Gren and Joel Eklund

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The inventor and tech investor Martin Gren is best known for founding Axis Communications – where he&#8217;s still chairman of the board. Joel Eklund comes from a different background. As owner and chairman of TePe, he has raised the company to become a market leader in dental care products. Now the two successful entrepreneurs are investing in the growing IT consulting company Qgroup.
It feels fantastic that both Martin and Joel will join our journey. They will contribute with their knowledge and competence around the many aspects of entrepreneurship, says Mikael Kretz, co-founder of Qgroup.
Qgroup was founded in 2012 as a consulting company specialized in tailored  IT services. Through rapid growth and smart acquisitions, the company has expanded to 14 locations in 8 different countries and has over 500 employees.
&#8220;Qgroup is one of the most exciting companies in their industry, so it will be fun to be involved and contribute with our experience,&#8221; says Martin Gren.
&#8220;To follow a local company from Malmö, Sweden, on their international journey will be very exciting,&#8221; says Joel Eklund.
Questions:
CEO: Jon Carvell
<a href="mailto:Jon.carvell@qgroup.se">Jon.carvell@qgroup.se</a>
<a href="tel:+46708707500">+46708707500</a>

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The founder of Paradox Interactive, Fredrik Wester, joins Qgroup as a new board member and investor

Qgroup Welcomes Fredrik Wester

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Fredrik Wester is the founder and chairman of the successful Swedish gaming company Paradox Interactive. He is now taking a seat as a board member of Qgroup and at the same time becoming an investor in the growing  IT consulting company. Fredrik will primarily strengthen the competencies regarding questions about the group’s continued rapid growth, acquisitions, and future strategies.
&#8220;It feels fantastic that Fredrik has chosen Qgroup as one of his new commitments, and we’re looking forward to having his expertise on our board,&#8221; says Mikael Kretz, co-founder of Qgroup. Qgroup was founded in January 2012 and currently has about 500 employees located in 14 cities in 8 different countries.
Their journey has been fast thanks to a strong growth strategy and their self-developed Q-methodology based on unlocking and embracing new ways of thinking. &#8220;Qgroup is a specialist company with a clear “disruptive strategy” in the industry. It will be exciting to be a part of this journey and contribute with my experiences around acquisitions and growth strategy,&#8221; says Fredrik Wester.
Questions:
CEO: Jon Carvell
<a href="mailto:Jon.carvell@qgroup.se">Jon.carvell@qgroup.se</a>
<a href="tel:46708707500">+46708707500</a>

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TroniQ is the newest addition to our expanding company portfolio, opening up a new competence area within Qgroup: mechanical and electrical engineering combined with embedded software development.

Fredrik Wesslén Joins Qgroup with TroniQ in Sweden

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TroniQ is the home for talented people who want to thrive, grow, and do exceptional work. Using Qgroup&#8217;s personal development tools gives them a unique career opportunity to reach their professional goals and build their reputation. Clients will benefit from working with the best, highly motivated experts with a passion for their handcraft.
<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/fred-wesslen/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Fredrik Wesslén</a>, TroniQ&#8217;s Founder &amp; CEO, expressed his excitement about this new venture, adding, &#8220;During my career, I have always been drawn to the combination of technology, business, and giving opportunities to talented people. The first time I came in contact with Qgroup, I realized that I had finally met people who talk the talk and walk the walk. Through Qgroup&#8217;s unique offer to the consultants, we work to build the company around them, which is our core business and our passion. I&#8217;m thrilled to join Qgroup&#8217;s journey to change and shape a new way of consulting. Help amazing people achieve their goals and solve our customers&#8217; problems while having a blast doing it. What more can you ask for?

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Guest post by 
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In a world where everything changes faster than ever before, it is always tempting to fight hard to maintain the status quo that feels safe. However, something has changed in terms of how business life is working today.

Being Unique, Making Competition Irrelevant

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In a world where everything changes faster than ever before, it is always tempting to fight hard to maintain the status quo that feels safe. However, something has changed in terms of how business life is working today. We live in turbulent times, which means that it is time to get hold of the best tools available and start using them before your competitors do. I have had the opportunity to meet many consultants, entrepreneurs, and leaders who talk about rebooting themselves or their companies. They are looking for new ways to show their real value to attract new clients, talents, or investors. The paradox is that it is no longer about being the best; it is about being unique.
<h4 class="h4">Aiming For Being The Best In Business Is Overrated</h4>
Many are currently striving to be the best in their business field, but best compared to whom and what? It often ends up with a competition involving high marketing costs. Edward de Bono, the bestselling author of books about creativity and the inventor of lateral thinking, says that we should move beyond the baseline of competition. The choice of running your own race instead of running alongside others could give you a competitive edge over other businesses. This way of thinking goes both for companies and you, as consultants, entrepreneurs, or leaders.
INSEAD professors W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne share the same thoughts in their famous book about Blue Ocean Strategy. Blue oceans are where a market space is new and uncontested, and strategy centers around value innovation. On the other hand, red oceans are where competition is fierce. Their strategy centers around beating rivals, and wins are often zero-sum.
“Jack of all trades is the master of none.” It is a figure of speech that is more important than ever since it deals with the aspiration to be unique and experience the pleasure of becoming genuinely good in your area. It is about challenging mediocrity and focusing on one distinct field that you genuinely enjoy working in, have in-depth expertise, and in which you have the potential of becoming unique. It is where your talents, passion, and commitment to join forces to allow you to achieve something great. It is about leaving behind your desire to be the best and instead deciding to aim for mastery and being unique and compare yourself to no one.
In this new marketplace, you should take every opportunity to find and share the unique things about you and give you a competitive edge. More than ever, knowing your reputation is THE dividing-line since people will hire you or invest in you based on it. It has the potential of taking you to the next professional level.
<h4 class="h4">Individual Reputation Will Be A Dominant Factor</h4>
Five years ago, I met with a global PR company who, in their annual report, predicted that personal reputation would become a dominant factor in the future. I would suggest that we are there now. Leading futurists such as Rachel Botsman talk about a new sharing economy built on reputation and trust. Impressive and hugely successful business leaders and investors like Richard Branson and Warren Buffett say that reputation was the most critical part of their business success.
Most people I have met over the last years agreed upon how important their reputation was to succeed. But it also became clear that they had a very blurry view of what their own reputation looked like or the vast possibilities that it could open up.
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<h5>“There are many types of currency in Silicon Valley. Money, talent, and media attention all matter, but by far, the most valuable asset you can build is your reputation.”</h5>
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These words were recently written in the Gigster Blog, owned by a company based in San Francisco. However, this is not only the case in Silicon Valley &#8211; it is the case everywhere. It is crucial for every company, it is crucial for you and me, and it is a real game-changer. Your reputation is the one thing that everything else in your professional life revolves around. It has the power to make you unique, taking you to a new professional level.
For the last ten years, my drive and commitment have been to find a tool and a complete approach to all the key factors that help you succeed when attracting clients, getting hired, in leadership, and in your professional development. Today, I am confident to suggest that the tool needed is the knowledge of your reputation. It gives you a thorough and trustworthy picture of how your level of expertise, unique qualities, soft skills, performance, and bugs are perceived. The benefits of expanding your reputation from this knowledge base are immense.
Artificial Intelligence will cause a massive change creating a new era in business and the job market. At the same time, your unique qualities (soft skills) are going to be more critical than ever. Leadership, creativity, curiosity, imagination, commitment, courage, passion, empathy, and entrepreneurship are just some of the areas where AI cannot compete. Knowing your reputation will always be the best and most reliable tool available to help you to discover those crucial skills and talents.

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<h4 class="h4">Making Competition Irrelevant Over Time</h4>
We attract clients or get hired based on our unique qualities and the expectations that our reputation sets. The paradox is that those are the same things that we have such a hard time describing reliably. The main reason for it is that we often have only a vague idea of what they are. The second issue is that we are humble. As for the first, you can act upon by getting to know your reputation. The latter is a great skill that you could grow even further, having your reputation as your greatest asset.
Of course, there are many factors with the potential of making you unique, and your reputation is the most interesting. My commitment is to make the Reputation Resumé the most crucial document in your professional life. It is a unique report highlighting how your professional stakeholders perceive your soft skills, level of expertise, experience, performance, and bugs. It indicates your full capacity and what can be expected of you to accomplish.
I meet many people with an inspiring past, but I think it is wise to start focusing on their future pitch. Expectations rule and are the things that make people take notice. You should use the knowledge and power of your reputation to your advantage since it will, over time, make competition irrelevant.
<h4 class="h4">Don&#8217;t Go Blindfolded Into The Future</h4>
If you are not fully aware of your reputation’s content &#8211; both your unique qualities and bugs &#8211; you are actually a bit blind-folded when traveling into your professional future. You will not be successful unless others are valuing you since they are the people that will hire you, promote you, applaud you, and spread your message. A majority of the critical business- or career decisions about you are made when you are not there; the &#8220;only&#8221; thing present is your reputation.
As a consultant, you are your reputation; it should be well known and your best friend. Your clients are primarily looking for three things. First, they are looking for a company that offers the best expertise, understands their problems and needs, sees a profitable solution, and clearly explains it. Secondly, they want the above to be confirmed by the expert&#8217;s reputation. Without that confirmation, the expert will never fulfill the crucial third factor, which is building trust. Your credibility and reputation are what seals a deal.
Let&#8217;s face it: successful companies and exciting jobs will no longer be filled with people sending in their traditional CVs. They will be filled with individuals with excellent reputations built on how they do things. Professional success is no longer about building a CV. It is about building your reputation, creating expectations, and building trust. It is about the quest for becoming unique.
We need the time and courage to explore what might be seen as &#8220;crazy ideas&#8221; because just right before there is a breakthrough, it is only a &#8220;crazy idea.&#8221; Many of them are the forerunners of success. The breakthrough of a lifetime can come from anywhere globally due to new ways of collaborating, technology, and the power of reputation.

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Dynabyte AB Becomes Part of Qgroup

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Qgroup acquires part of Dynabyte AB. With around 50 employees, Dynabyte AB delivers creative and innovative digital solutions in Stockholm, Sweden. In 2019, the company had a turnover of 68M SEK.
Dynabyte has been at the forefront of digital change for almost two decades and has a strong presence in the Stockholm tech market. There is a drive to evolve in their DNA, which is present when it comes to pushing the boundaries for new digital solutions for their customers and having a strong internal learning culture, which stimulates individual growth.
Jon Carvell, Qgroup&#8217;s CEO, expressed his excitement on this new addition to Qgroup&#8217;s company portfolio, saying, &#8220;We are really looking forward to working with Dynabyte AB and collaborating on growing our businesses together. With this acquisition, we strengthen our delivery capacity within development and project management solutions in Stockholm. We will be able to serve our current customers with bigger teams and also help Dynabyte grow their existing client base.&#8221;
On a final note, Anders Lentell, Dynabyte AB&#8217;s CEO, expressed how the company will benefit from this partnership, saying, &#8220;Qgroup is the perfect environment for us to develop our company further. The way they work with personal development is unique and is something that we will benefit from directly. Furthermore, Qgroup&#8217;s impressive client list is something we leverage on. We share many key values where personal development and excellence are among the top. Mikael Kretz, one of Qgroup&#8217;s founders and executive partners, will also take a seat in our board&#8221;.
Qgroup is a group of 28 subsidiaries, employing over 500 people with 14 offices in Europe and North America.
<a href="http://www.q.group/">www.q.group</a>
<a href="http://www.dynabyte.se/">www.dynabyte.se</a>

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Guest post by 
Per Frykman</strong 
 
 
What Consultants, Entrepreneurs, and Leaders should consider when everything is continuously changing.

Reputation And The New Normal

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Change is as natural as breathing, and with everything that is happening today, it is time to future-proof our careers and businesses. The pandemic has intensified many existing trends, and it will unlock new unique windows of possibilities.
We need to find a balance between what has worked up until now, and what needs to happen to succeed in the new normal.
The critical factor that will become more important than ever is our reputation and how it builds trust. It will decide the success of every future collaboration and business deal. It is time to take it from something merely interesting to something indispensable.
We are entering a new normal, and we will more often move into new professional arenas. Your reputation will be the most critical asset that you will bring from one project to the next, highlighting what you can accomplish and how you do things. It is the complete approach to your expertise, unique qualities (result skills), bugs, and performance.
The new normal is digital. Working from home has become kind of a mantra in the future of work discussions, but I think that we are missing something fundamental here. Instead, it is about having the choice of working from anywhere; it is the freedom to work from places where we are most productive, combining efficiency with quality of life. It might be working from home, from an office, in nature, outdoors, or a hotel lobby. It is a flexibility that we should provide to our current and future employees, to get the attention of the best talents wherever they are located.
Today, many consultants, entrepreneurs, and leaders are looking for ways to show their real value to attract new clients. Video meetings and webinars are becoming standard tools in our ways of collaborating. Whatever tools we decide to use, our reputation will be the differentiator, and it might be wise to build your strategies around it.
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<h4>We Are Far More Talented Than We Give Ourselves Credit For</h4>
Your reputation is the one thing that everything else in your professional life revolves around. It is never about self-promotion since your reputation is only as good as what your stakeholders say. Calling yourself a thought leader, guru, or even expert will no longer do the trick, but having the reputation of being one is an entirely different matter. That is the beauty of reputation and the reason why I consider mine to be far more critical than my track-record.
After exploring the reputation of more than a thousand consultants, entrepreneurs, and leaders, it is my experience that we are far more talented than we give ourselves credit for or promote. We miss out on a lot of the truly critical stuff. A Reputation Resumé will be our best friend heading for excellence or increased potential to be hired for a new project. It expands our self-awareness and makes us see our capacity and performance in a whole new light. I dare say that it is the most crucial document in your professional life since the people who are doing great work have their preceding reputation as their most valuable asset.
An excellent reputation is something you earn by doing outstanding work, treating people well, and staying genuine; it is both a mindset and a lifelong commitment. You cannot have an attractive reputation without putting in the effort. The self-awareness that comes from knowing the content of your reputation will be THE success factor in navigating the new normal.
<h4>Let&#8217;s Upgrade Our Soft Skills To Result Skills</h4>
Soft skills are not soft. They are the true hard skills that generate results. Not paying full attention to these skills is a huge mistake since they are a vital part of building our reputation and aiming for excellence. In the global LinkedIn report &#8216;Talent Trends 2019&#8217;, they are at the top of the list transforming our workplaces. And they will be even more critical in the new normal. So &#8211; let&#8217;s upgrade them and label them &#8216;result skills&#8217; from now on.
As the half-life of many hard skills is continuously shrinking, the result skills are becoming more relevant than ever. A vast majority of companies struggle to assess them, and despite the importance, the ways to get a grip on them have not changed much over the past few decades. Reid Hoffman, one of the founders of LinkedIn, wrote about how hard it is to measure them. The Reputation Resumé has an exciting position to fill in since the people around you see your result skills best.
There is more information available out there than anyone can adequately take in, and this trend is growing exponentially, which means that many experts might be stuck with yesterday&#8217;s answers. Without the tremendous dedication and natural curiosity, the foremost expert can stagnate with old knowledge faster than ever before. With the vast amount of information available online at our fingertips, the tricky question becomes whether you can call yourself an expert today. This issue calls for new, creative ways to build, expand, and promote yourself as an expert. I might be biased, but I think your reputation resumé will do the job.
Research from Stanford University and Harvard Business School clearly shows that your potential for the future gets you hired for a job or a project. It is what people expect from you that is critical, and we should shift focus in our marketing activities from history to the future. Your reputation will automatically set those expectations, and we are never better than our next project.
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<h4>Closing The Reputation Gap</h4>
A growth mindset has become a popular topic today. One interesting approach is closing the reputation gap between how you see and promote your talents and how your professional stakeholders perceive your abilities and performance. This approach is an excellent way to confirm your current baseline and figure out your starting point. You will raise the bar of your professional approach, thus gaining access to your result skills.
We live and work in a turbulent and extremely competitive market today due to the pandemic, and many are seeking new ways to attract clients, assignments, or investors. We could have brilliant business ideas or career strategies, but everything lands in our reputation. There is huge power in it – it only needs to be explored and expanded since it will be the new dividing line. People will buy from you, work with you, invest in you, and hire you based on your reputation and the expectations that accompany it.
One crucial strategic shift that you can make when building your reputation is to replace the word weaknesses with bugs. Apps on our smartphones are being released in beta versions, with bugs that are continuously being updated by the developers aiming for excellence over time. In the same way, you could release the beta version of you, realizing that you have bugs, that they are natural and necessary, and then keep continuously updating yourself. It is the action to take before perfection.
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<h4>Clients Will Pick The Individual, Not The Company</h4>
Reputation has a significant impact on not only the individual&#8217;s economy but also the company&#8217;s. The intersection between corporate and individual reputation is becoming a hotspot. According to the GC Excellence Report, the individual lawyer&#8217;s reputation ranks first in selecting a law firm by a ten to one margin over the importance of a law firm&#8217;s brand. We pick lawyers, not law firms. I would say that it is the same in every branch, in almost every mid-sized company. Buyers place a high premium on reputation and expertise.
We will also be entering a time when successful companies will no longer be filled with people sending in their traditional resumés. Instead, they will be filled with individuals with excellent reputations built on how they do things. Professional growth will focus on building your reputation around top performance creating expectations, and earning trust. There are some exciting times ahead, and foresighted companies like QGroup will have a massive advantage in the competition for the best talents and clients.
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<h4>Can You Think Of Anything More Important?</h4>
Our minds take us in different directions. We often see risks more clearly than opportunities, and we can introduce previous results easier than what can be expected of us in the future even though it is the reason we are being hired. We talk about soft skills, but to be honest; they are not soft; they are our unique qualities that generate results and cannot be replaced by Artificial Intelligence. Whatever roads you choose to travel, your reputation will be affected.
To finish up, let&#8217;s consider four crucial aspects of your reputation.
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<li>What you say about yourself is not nearly as important as what others say about you.</li>
<li>Your reputation has the same impact on your life as what you actually do.</li>
<li>Your reputation sets the expectations of what you can accomplish &#8211; the reason they will hire you.</li>
<li>Your reputation is the one thing that everything else in your professional life revolves around.</li>
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Can you think of anything more important?

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We are thrilled to welcome Carina Sæther-Larsen and EIQ Consulting to Qgroup!

Carina Sæther-Larsen joins Qgroup with EIQ Consulting in Oslo, Norway.

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Carina Sæther-Larsen is the founder and CEO of our newest company addition EIQ Consulting in Oslo, Norway. She brings in several years of experience, competence, and a passion for bridging business and technology. She is highly motivated and curious about new technologies and how tech can develop the way we shape the future.
EIQ Consulting helps customers navigate and analyze the strategic choices for their future platforms and systems, and further guide them on their digital transformation journey.
With EIQ Consulting, we look into your legacy to help you see the possibilities in the new and more modern solutions and services available.

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We are excited to welcome Jaroslaw Sarwa to Qgroup. Jaroslaw is the founder and CEO of our newest company addition, Qure.

Qgroup Launches First Company in Warsaw, Poland

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Jaroslaw Sarwa is experienced in fintech, advising financial institutions in their digital transformation journeys, cooperating with technology companies, connecting technology with business, mentoring fintech startups, and building fintech communities in Central and Eastern European countries.
The newest addition to our company portfolio, Qure, specializes in digital transformation, digital strategy across different sectors, with a focus on financial institutions. It provides services in technology as well as management consultancy, system development, architecture management development, and their implementation process.
Qure is here to enable digital transformation across organizations, says Jaroslaw. We want to help build and support organizations in their path to digitalize. We are focused on providing the necessary skills and expertise to navigate the challenges of their digital transformation journeys.
With Qure, we hope to have an impact on building and improving the digital transformation experience and driving innovation in business in Poland.

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La Mystique de Paris: a beautiful night inspired on the party fashion scene in Paris in the 1920's.

Qgroup Christmas Party 2019

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Meet our company founders and the group CEO, Mikael Kretz, Håkan Paulsson, and Jon Carvell, as they tell the story about how QGroup came to be, our philosophy, and our core values.

Qgroup Brand Film

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We are excited to announce the newest company addition, Cyber Defense by Q, to Qgroup.

Pernilla Ulfshagen joins Qgroup with Cyber Defense by Q

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Cyber Defense by Q, the newest addition to our company portfolio, specializes in Information Security, Trusted Advisory, Penetration Testing, Cloud Security Architect, Perimeter Consultancy, and Security Information and Event Management (SIEM).
We are thrilled to launch the first company that specializes in Cyber Security in Malmö, Sweden. Pernilla Ulfshagen, the company&#8217;s founder and CEO, is also very excited about embarking on this new journey. Pernilla brings in her experience and expertise in IT security, account management, and sales.
With Cyber Defense by Q, we want to help protect your company&#8217;s most valuable assets against any type of cyber attack.

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Data Science consultancy company Qbiz provided a member of their team to conduct a project expanding on Natural Language Processing (NLP) capabilities at the London Fire Brigade.

Qbiz UK conducts a Natural Language Processing (NLP) project at the London Fire Brigade

<h4>Dan Singh was embedded in the LFB&#8217;s analytics team for 2 months and worked alongside LFB analysts to explore the work.</h4>

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Head of Data Analytics at LFB, Apollo Gerolymbos comments: “It was an absolute pleasure having Dan work with us. LFB collect mountains of data about all their activities and expanding into data science to make sure we aren’t missing any insights is a natural progression for a world class fire service. We hope to be able to share this approach and drive the whole sector forward.”

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The first element involved expanding existing topic modelling capabilities to be applicable to new and existing datasets. Topic modelling is useful in identifying categories from unlabelled data.
For example given a dataset containing the text from Wikipedia articles on the top grossing films of all time, one could categorise their genres and highlight the words associated with each genre.

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The topic modelling approach used was Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), and the code was created in a format that will enable LFB to run LDA on any chosen set of articles. These could be fire investigation reports, reports about health and safety events or even consultation responses.
The second part involved building a predictive model to predict categorisation fields from article text. A logistic regression classifier was created with a predictive accuracy of over 70%.

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Dan from Qbiz commented &#8220;I really enjoyed working with the LFB team, expanding my knowledge of Natural Language Processing in an environment that works toward delivering social benefit.”
<a class="button" href="mailto:%20dan.singh@qbizuk.com">Contact Andrew Spry at Qbiz UK</a>

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Seth Godin is one of the most significant resources for entrepreneurs, consultants, and leaders who are striving for success. He has highlighted three things about the crucial importance of our reputation. 
 
Your reputation has as much impact on your life as what you actually do. The single best way to maintain your reputation is doing things that you're proud of. Reputation is what people expect us to do next and how we do it.

Heading For Reputation Mastery

I have always been fascinated by the word Mastery both in sports, handicrafts and in business. It&#8217;s not about being the best; instead, it&#8217;s an exciting process to embrace a niche having the pure pleasure of becoming genuinely good in your area, standing out as unique.
Reputation Mastery means focusing on the combination of growing your expertise and all those crucial soft skills creating results. It&#8217;s about being a nerd in your area with an everlasting curiosity and commitment to always feel proud of your deliveries. Above all, it&#8217;s focusing on the value that you bring to others.
One thing that I initially had a hard time accepting was that I don&#8217;t own my reputation since it&#8217;s how others are perceiving my actions. What I quickly realized was that I could influence it in significant ways by my commitment to regularly raise the bar of my performance. However, it&#8217;s also the other way around; your reputation shapes your actions and decides your level of success.
You can&#8217;t opt out from having a reputation, and you can&#8217;t ignore it; it&#8217;s how others perceive your work and how you do things. Instead, it would be best if you handle it with your actions and commitment, as it is the foundation of everything in your professional life. The self-awareness that comes from knowing your reputation is the number one success factor today for everyone, no matter what position you have.
I&#8217;m privileged to meet and work with some of the game changers who don&#8217;t have just a job; they have this natural craftsmanship approach, with their reputation as their greatest asset. I can&#8217;t see another single strategy with the same impact as working with your reputation.
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<h3>The Paradox &#8211; You Can&#8217;t Work On Your Reputation</h3>
The Carnegie Institute of Technology has looked into what creates financial success among technical consultants. The results show that 85 percent of your financial success stems from unique personal qualities such as personality, the ability to communicate, negotiate, and lead. Only, as they wrote, &#8220;a shockingly low&#8221; 15 percent is due to their technological background, this goes for all of us, and working with reputation will give you the full picture.
The new ways of working will demand focus on a unique set of skills. We are in a digitally intensive era where, of course, digital building expertise will be in high demand together with the soft skills that put them to action with a successful result, combined with also the business skills that put everything to great use will build an excellent reputation. It&#8217;s always about that combination of expertise, experience, soft skills, and at the same time handling the bugs that might hinder your success.
Reputation is extremely important, but I also hear people saying that you shouldn&#8217;t be concerned about what others think about you. However, dismissing reputation is not such a great idea. Your reputation ultimately determines your future opportunities, and successful people have always stressed that building and maintaining reputation is a fundamental ingredient to their success.
Reputation mastery is the commitment to making the most excellent contribution in your particular area. The paradox is that you can&#8217;t work directly on your reputation; instead, it&#8217;s a by-product and spin-off of your work. Reputation is something you earn by doing truly great work, treating people well, and staying genuine. You can&#8217;t have an excellent reputation without putting in this effort.
Success in life or business is entirely based on your reputation. Those words from one of the worlds most successful leaders Richard Branson shows the relevance it has in the business world today, and I will suggest that this is the case for everyone whatever positions that we might have in your business or career.
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<h4>Your Reputation Always Walks Ahead Of You</h4>
What others say about you carries more weight than what you say about yourself. There is nothing so powerful as a positive reputation and the recommendations that it brings. It travels fast and always walks ahead of you. It must stand up for you when you&#8217;re not there,  important decisions are made, and it will do the job before you arrive. It might be time to get to know what it looks like and how you can grow and expand it. A vast majority lack this crucial knowledge.
Your reputation is the most critical part that you bring from one deal to the next, from project to project and how you act is always the multiplier. Having an excellent reputation is the golden key that opens doors to exciting people and companies that you want to do business with or learn from them.
Each time that I give feedback on someone&#8217;s professional reputation through their Reputation Resumé, I see the tremendous positive impact that it has. Typically it takes about a week or two to get it into your mind and body to accept the strengths, and then something powerful happens. Suddenly you get the courage and tools to pursue the goals that you are aiming to achieve over time. You will act on your strengths and also get the possibility to handle the bugs/weaknesses that might hinder your success. Regardless of age, regardless of position, or the business we&#8217;re in, we need to understand the importance and power of reputation. Your success is dependent on it.
Today we&#8217;re looking for attitudes, the soft skills and those unique qualities that create results and potential. Reid Hoffman, the co-founder of LinkedIn, wrote in his book &#8220;The Start-up of You&#8221; that those skills are hard to tally, but there is an obvious solution. Knowing your reputation through your Reputation Resumé will get you a 100% accurate description of those unique qualities.
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<h4>“What others say about you carries more weight than what you say about yourself.”</h4>
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<h4>Release The Beta Version Of You</h4>
Every morning when we wake up, most of us see those small red dots on our smartphone apps, meaning that they have been updated. The app was released in a Beta version and is then continuously updated to get better, aiming for something excellent over time. There is something to learn here.
This way of thinking could also apply to your professional growth, and you could release the Beta version of you, realizing that you also have bugs and continuously keep updating yourself. The approach builds on curiosity, courage, and action, and it gives your reputation a huge boost. It&#8217;s a game changer that transforms your weaknesses into bugs that you can handle in different ways, and you will eventually stop associating risk with failure. Plus, when releasing something new, bugs are quite natural and not a weakness. It will have a significant effect on your way of acting.
I love working with bold companies, and I’ve had the privilege to work with the brilliant consultants and leaders of QGroup for some years around their personal reputation. They are the true pioneers who have fully understood the power of reputation and are actively working with it. They are the game-changers among consultancies, not only seeing things as they are but how they could be.
This article is also an extract from my new book &#8220;Let’s Talk About Reputation&#8221; that will be published this autumn.
<h4>About the author</h4>
Per Frykman is the founder of <a href="https://perfrykman.com/">Reputation Mastery™</a>. Per offers a unique approach and is committed to exploring every inch of your professional reputation, and works on your Reputation Resumé to provide you with the keys and tools that you need for your future success.

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We are happy to announce that Accelerated Growth AB is now part of Qgroup. 
 
Accelerated Growth is active in areas such as management consulting, architecture management and business analysis. With about 20 employees spread between the offices in Malmö, Göteborg, and Stockholm, Accelerated Growth had a turnover of 23,5 mil SEK during 2018.

Accelerated Growth AB becomes a part of Qgroup

&#8220;We are looking forward to working with Accelerated Growth and help develop the company to new heights. With this partnership, we strengthen our offer around management consulting and project management.&#8221; – Jon Carvell-CEO, Qgroup, reflects on what this acquisition means to Qgroup.
&#8220;Accelerated Growth works with clients such as Volvo, Maersk, IKEA, Medirum AB, and Staples to mention a few. With the global footprint that Qgroup has, we can strengthen our value to existing clients and new ones both locally and globally. We are looking forward to the added value that brings in the use of Qgroup&#8217;s personal development tool.&#8221; Mikael Olsen, CEO Accelerated Growth AB, reflects on what this company merger means to Accelerated Growth.
With our new operations in Paris, we now have over +420 specialist consultants with 25 subsidiaries in six markets globally.

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STORY BY 
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As a strategic advisor to the CEO and agent of change Data Wise Academy kick-started a company-wide dynamic to grow a data culture and the development of lean processes. We crafted a tailored internal methodology for training for a rapid roll-out. Over 3 months, 5 countries, 100 people got trained and adopted efficient data management approaches.

Data Wise Academy transforms a manufacturing company's data management approach

<h3>What was the project about?</h3>
This large manufacturing company was struggling in aligning its different stakeholders around data plus the different approaches to create a data culture, and data-driven processes had failed due to lack of cohesive thinking, proper training, and absence of tangible quick wins.

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<h3>Our Approach</h3>
We relied on our successful approach of stakeholder alignment, motivational speaking, world-class data training, hands-on workshop, and ongoing support. One specific aspect of this engagement was our collaboration with the data analytics and IT organization to build a integrate user accessible solutions that would have the agility to support the rapid fire of the many lean processes that the newly trained teams would design.
We also created a completely tailored training + workshop methodology that the internal trainers could take and deliver across the organization.

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<h3>What was the end result?</h3>
The organization is now training new data-savvy employees every week. The previous approaches solely focused on big data stories, data science algorithms, or coding that failed to empower the teams got replaced by our standard methodology that continued to be improved iterations after iterations.

Data Wise Academy transforms a manufacturing company’s data management approach

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Data Wise Academy empowers global finance team to successfully design, implement, and run a profitability analytics. Previous attempts to solve this project had repeatedly failed over the past 3 years, and after training and workshops the team solved it in 3 months… autonomously.

Data Wise Academy empowers global finance team

<h3>The Assignment</h3>
The project was multiple fold:
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<li>Create a data-driven culture in a world of Excel spreadsheets.</li>
<li>Make finance processes leaner and cut down processes from days to minutes</li>
<li>Recover from a failed big data/data lake implementation which never got traction with the business and turned people away from data.</li>
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<h4>Our Approach</h4>
We rolled out a multi-staged intervention over a 3-month period. We aligned senior management, IT, and finance along the same philosophy of managing data. We ignited new dynamics for the global finance team through motivational keynotes, and we rolled out trainings and workshops to infuse solid data expertise, to get started fast and deliver quick-wins.

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<h4>What was the end result?</h4>
The company is now running a training program of its own, gradually empowering their finance teams around the world. Our train-the-trainer approach has enabled this bank to fast track its transformation and now to sustain it organically. We can now focus on more advanced subject and look toward the New Frontier: Data Science
<a href="mailto: gauthier@datawiseacademy.com">Contact Gauthier Vasseur at Data Wise Academy</a>

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STORY BY 
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Svensk Adressändring is a major integrator between several mail distributors in Sweden and is so well known to people that they are often mistaken for a government institution. When our consultant first encountered the client they had an aging backend system, an entire team of developers leaving and long overdue plans for a new website to sell their products.

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Despite the departure of the entire development team, our consultant managed to quickly absorb the core competencies needed to maintain and develop the existing system and then distribute that knowledge onwards as a new team was slowly put together. The knowledge rescued by our consultant would be paramount in undertaking the next big task for the customer: building a new website.

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The plans for the new website entailed a host of new requirements on the backend, meaning large parts of it would have to be repurposed. This presented a challenge because the new backend code would also have to maintain compatibility with other parts of the system. One example being the internally developed desktop client used by customer services to place new orders and handle customer complaints. Components were mainly integrated via a shared database and any inconsistencies in data between the new backend and the existing systems could lead to failure in delivering the purchased services, as well as errors in accounting.
The compatibility requirement threatened to compromise the quality of the new code, either by forcing it to adhere to an ill-adapted data model or by requiring the use of various synchronization calls riddled throughout the code. To solve this, our consultant gradually introduced the team to the concepts of DDD, CQRS and Event Sourcing, allowing them to cleanly separate the compatibility layer from the newly implemented domain logic while simultaneously giving them a reliable way to synchronize data with the old data model.

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In addition, our consultant endeavored to improve the development processes employed by the team. By introducing a Continuous Delivery pipeline, they managed to not only lower the maintenance costs of developers manually executing deployment procedures, but to increase the reliability of releases too. Our consultant also spearheaded an effort to capture requirements using BDD and automated testing, an effort which has helped the team to not only make sense of their business but to also be assured that the code being written works without unintended consequences.
Today the customer looks to the future with a positive mindset, thanks in large part to the ideas and visions set forth by our consultant. While the team still hasn’t managed to liberate themselves from all parts of the old system, they now feel they have all the tools they need to get there in the long run.

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A typical Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) system implementation can run for many years, depending on the complexity and size of the company. For this client, there were no pre-existing systems in place, which meant a completely fresh start. In the span of just two years, we worked to understand this company inside and out and proceeded to carry out a swift and seamless PLM implementation.

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Our client, a world-leading biometrics company, is a rising star. Their identification technology is found in millions of devices worldwide, and the company continues to climb in international stock markets. In April 2016, they came to us as they were facing steep growth that called for a more sophisticated PLM system.

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We kicked off the project by meeting with the management team, who shared an overview of the problem areas and outlined their desire to implement a new standard for product information management. From there, we rolled up our sleeves and immersed ourselves in countless workshops and interviews with cross-functional teams and managers. It was a fantastic opportunity to be able to work with a blank slate – the client had no PLM tools to begin with and our competence in this area was greatly appreciated.
During the solution phase, we presented proposals for solutions and iterated the proof of concept as it related specific business areas. We used real company data when visualizing the proposed structures and made sure that everyone was aligned before moving forward.
We reached an important milestone in our collaboration when we suggested merging a corporate document management system with the PLM system. The implementation was executed masterfully and the decision translated into significant financial savings for the client in terms of licensing, training and maintenance.
When it came time to implement the PLM tool, we worked with parallel changes in the process. This crucial and often incredibly time-consuming phase can often be the deal-breaker: it concerns changing internal processes and handing over the project to a confident and well-informed organization. We managed to keep the amount of time spent in this phase to what’s recognized in the industry as extremely low. How?

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We build PLM systems from the business side while others neglect data and information systems. We not only buy PLM tools, but start by learning how the client wants to work and then identify the most suitable system. Our teams include specialists with wide-ranging expertise, but they have a mindset in common: understanding business first.

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STORY BY 
inQore 
 
Every now and then, a component’s life span will reach its end. This occurs for variety of reasons: the focus moves to a new generation, the company went out of business, etc. Nonetheless, your complex product might still be in production or you might need to perform services with products still in the market. What’s the next step then? 
 
This happened to one of our customers, a leading supplier of blood analysis systems for point-of-care customers. These products have been in the market for quite some time. When this situation arose, components needed to be picked apart and low-level software needed to be developed. But as we were preparing for validation and verification in the medtech industry, we thought, why not add some additional value during the development phase?