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Today, the e-news medium madeinoostvlaanderen reported about idmanager and idlegcy, with a nice article promoting the product of our new venture.
Idlegcy NV is a subsidiary of Participium. Idlegcy wants to help companies to handle their customers and business relations data with respect. The company has now developed a web application to help companies manage GDPR rights: idmanager. With idmanager, anyone can manage GDPR rights centrally, instead of approaching each organization individually. The digital identity is therefore much easier to manage.
Tomorrow, 25th of May is the GDPR deadline. Dozens of companies and organizations have prepared themselves to be compliant and to protect themselves against potential claims. From tomorrow any individual can contact any company to review their data, change them or have them deleted.
That means that you have to contact all those organizations one by one… very cumbersome indeed. That is where idmanager comes in. On one overview page, idmanager shows the organizations that keep track of your data. It takes merely two clicks to clear them. The app allows you to contact the data manager in any of these companies.
The application is free for all people who want to manage their data and privacy. Companies and organizations that pay the bill of idmanager, when they connect idmanager with their IT system.
More information on http://www.idlegcy.com/idmanager
Forte is one of the investments of Participium. Forte is the customer intimacy specialist among the management advisory companies for technical and production industries. They are ahead in helping established companies embrace Industry 4.0. But, they also discovered many companies still struggle with new 4.0 concepts, such as digitization, servitization, customer value management, outcome-based business models.
In order for established companies to get a head-start and take decisions more thoroughly, Forte is providing a half day sounding board named “I4.0 Doctor”. Typically, one or two decision takers get a half day of feedback on their ideas. During that half day, the sounding board will help them better understand the reasons why for taking certain I4.0 decisions – or not.
More info via press release (nl) that will be spread later this week. Or get in touch with Forte via jan.ghys@forte.eu or jan.lagast@forte.eu.
Prof. Jan De Visch has developed a model and a survey questionnaire to estimate the chances for success of the introduction of self-steering.
“If too many parameters are counter-indicative, it is better to focus on some minor improvements first, before starting the real job of changing towards a form of self-steering”.
His presentation of March 22 contains the ten questions as well as a short summary for each of the questions.
Forte is one of Participium’s companies. Forte is the customer intimacy specialist among B2B management advisory companies and offers an end-to-end range of services, from strategic advice, sales & marketing planning, to sales, communication, staffing and training. Forte has noted that Industry 4.0 will shake up several sectors. And that this will thoroughly change the role of sales & marketing. Are you also convinced of this and do you want to make the changes happen? Then this is your chance to jump on the Forte train …
Forte is looking at short notice for:
Transformation Architect. You have experience in B2B sales and marketing, you’ve held a middle management position in a division or business unit of an industrial organization for several years, but now you feel that the corporate world can’t provide you the freedom you need to really have impact in the coming years. Then this vacancy is worth your attention. The Transformation Architect ensures that our customers can (continue to) take the lead as Industry 4.0 shakes up their sector. You outline the transformation plan with which we redesign the strategy, the sales & marketing functions and even the internal organization of our clients.
We will gladly give you more information about this top job and the responsibilities that go with it, if you send a mail with a short motivation and very brief CV to diether.claeys@forte.eu
Change Lead. You have experience in B2B sales & marketing and you are an expert in getting the board members on board of a change process. At Forte, change processes starts from the market. We ensure that companies remain relevant and can take the lead, as Industry 4.0 thoroughly shakes up their sector. It is essential that you know how to lead a mixed team of colleagues and employees at the customer to results, regardless of the DNA of our customers. You will be responsible for planning the change project, monitoring and anchoring the changes, achieving and visualising the quick wins, adjusting the plan to a changing market and competition, etc. It is your responsibility that the margin of our strategic customers increases drastically over a period of two to three years.
This is only the tip of the iceberg. We will gladly provide you more information on this top job and the responsibilities that go with it, if you send a mail with a short motivation and very brief CV to diether.claeys@forte.eu
Business Developer “Utility Building & City Infrastructure”. Do you want to become our Mister or Misses Network? If you know the ins and outs of the intriguing new ecosystems “Utility Building and City Infrastructure”, this is your chance to help the leading mid-sized players in the world to stay relevant, now that Industry 4.0 thoroughly shakes up their industry. At Forte you can offer them a unique combination of customer intimacy, technology and advice. You are supported by the strong quality brand Forte to help you achieve that one goal our whole organisation is passionate about: increase the margin of the customers drastically in a few years’ time.
We will gladly provide you more information about this top job and the responsibilities that go with it, if you send a mail with a short motivation and very brief CV to diether.claeys@forte.eu
As we mentioned earlier prof. Jan De Visch held an interesting lecture about self steering, at the event of february 8, organized by the Argonauts and Unizo, and sponsored by Participium.
This is what we learned from prof. Jan De Visch.
There are three essentials of self steering
Earlier this week, we wrote about the article Computable.be posted on the new role of Paul Indekeu as CEO of Participium. Other business and tech news channel followed the example of Computable.be. Read the article
The news and knowledge platform for Flemish entrepreneurs dVO De Vlaamse Ondernemer focussed on the financial aspect of the changes, with Paul increasing his contribution to 500.000 euros and the possible growth this can bring along. Read the article
And even abroad the changes at Participium didn’t go unnoticed. Business and technology website Dutch IT channel dedicated a page length article to the internal changes at Participium. Read the article
We are pleased to see that the important changes that took place in Participium’s board of directors don’t go unnoticed. Computable.be the online platform for ICT professionals, posted a news item on its website about the new role for Paul Indekeu and our future plans.
Journalist Suzanne Martens correctly assessed that this is indeed relevant for the readers of Computable.be. The companies Participium has started up are directly or indirectly linked to technology. And we are convinced that technology is a necessity to increase the services delivery quality and to enable a steady scaling up for the long term.
Thank you Suzanne for writing about us!
Paul Indekeu joins Jan Lagast in the Board of Directors of company builder Participium and of all its participations. Lagast has successfully started up the organization and found an experienced colleague in Indekeu, who will help support the further growth.
Last week Participium completed a series of operations at the notary through which Paul Indekeu joins founder Jan Lagast in the board of Participium and of all companies in which it participates. Paul Indekeu joined Participium as a co-investor about a year ago. In the meantime, he has increased his contribution to 500.000 euros and was appointed managing director in Participium and its participations. Founder Jan Lagast remains chairman of the Board of Directors.
Indekeu and Lagast are passionate entrepreneurs. Both started their own company early in their careers, long before the word start-up existed. In contrast to the classic start-up and VC world, they both believe in return over the medium term. No matter how similar their vision and values may be, their experience and expertise is very complementary. Where Jan, a visionary, is very strong in coming up with ideas and giving them shape – from 0 to 1 – Paul Indekeu is very strong in realizing growth. He brought SoftCell at the end of last century in just 10 years from 3 to 150 employees and at the beginning of this century he was the man behind the success story of Compex. When he started there, it was a Flemish SME with 50 engineers. A few years later, it had 150 employees in 4 countries, and was subsequently noticed by Siemens. Now Indekeu will help realize growth at Participium.
Participium has so far created three groups of companies:
In 2018 we will focus on realizing growth in these companies. Meanwhile, Indekeu and Lagast take the time to look for a new investors, faithful to the name ‘Participium’ and the logo ‘+ = x’ which implies that with some extra people, a few extra investors and a few extra projects a nice multiplier can be realized for the human and financial capital of the company.