Van der Heijden Consulting BV
Interim management and consulting
for your technology leadership team
"you only win in the marketplace when you're winning in the workplace".
- Interim management
Your business is moving forward in the face of fierce competition and technology disruption. The technology function plays a key role in realizing newly defined strategic goals. We have a proven track record in translating strategic business goals into a portfolio of IT initiatives which is executable and creates value fast for the business. We do this through ongoing business and IT alignment, further strengthening your internal ICT teams where required and through building and maintaining effective relationships throughout the IT vendor landscape.
We help you out on an interim basis when key positions in your IT leadership team are not filled. We can help create and execute a roadmap to address technical debt in a practical way, always keeping business value in mind.
We help you navigate the challenges of a global organization, based on experience both in head-office roles as well as in decentral roles.
IT programs are complex endeavours. On occasion there is sand in the machine. We can come in, help identify the issues and address them. We will then ensure the people, structure and process are put in place to avoid issues later on in the program.
- Consultancy & facilitation
We come in and support your senior team with addressing one or more specific issues. We bring our own experience and network into play, but more importantly we help unlock the potential in your leadership team as well as the teams they manage to define and implement solutions for the challenges you face. Some examples of topics we can help with are: defining and implementing a cloud strategy which is cost effective and enables your strategic business goals, deciding on how to address technical debt in a cost efficient way, stabilizing your services and making them transparent in terms of performance, agreeing on and implementing an IT Strategy which excites the team and gives focus to their efforts as well as the work with IT vendors, strengthening your IT and business alignment on the operational, tactical and strategic levels, transitioning from a traditional project and services organization to an agile operating model together with business.
- Mentoring
You have talented people in your team, but you feel they’re not yet entirely ready to take the next step. We can come in for a defined timeframe to help your people, either in a mentoring approach sharing experiences around certain topics or in a more strict coaching approach. We can do this on an individual basis as well as for your IT Management Teams.
We move forward together.
- Experience
An IT executive with experience on the IT supplier side as well as on the corporate IT side, who has worked and lived in Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East. Worked at Pink Elephant, adidas Group and Alshaya Group over a 30+ year period in a multitude of roles. My core strengths are translating strategy into execution and then, in close collaboration with our business partners, assembling cross-functional and international teams who deliver towards a clearly defined common goal. My experience covers customer facing digital (omni-channel) and online trading solutions, backbone applications as well as infrastructure and (mobile) workplace solutions. I relate well with people from different backgrounds. My style is perceived as open, non-hierarchical and high energy.
