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Jeffrey Janssen is the CTO of Avans and is responsible for all IT services at the university of applied sciences. He has held this position for more than ten years. Over the course of those ten years, he has seen a lot of changes: Avans has made tremendous strides. Together with Anna Noorda (General Manager) and Vicky Schnitzler (Mendix developer) from Alistar, he reflects on the collaboration with Alistar and the developments that IT and education are undergoing together.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cStay with us and grow\u2014that\u2019s the message we both want to convey.\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Anna: Alistar believes that people can do more tomorrow than they can today. Avans feels exactly the same way. We encourage people to just go for it. You might stumble once in a while, but you\u2019ll learn from it, and that will make you better tomorrow. Stay with us and grow\u2014that\u2019s the message we both want to convey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jeffrey: It\u2019s our natural way of thinking, and we also use that mindset to justify certain decisions. We consider the development of our people to be incredibly important\u2014for example, in the case of Vicky\u2019s internal promotion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vicky: When a position opened up as\u00a0Mendix developer,<\/a>\u00a0My current assignment as an ICTO Coach hadn\u2019t yet been fully completed. We had a conversation, and I was asked how eager I was to take this step. And whether this step was necessary for my continued professional growth. It was. My department head didn\u2019t think it was ideal, but I was still allowed to take that step. They didn\u2019t want to hold me back in my development\u2014that\u2019s characteristic of this organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Anna: Sometimes you realize that people are really, really good at their roles. That\u2019s incredibly valuable to an organization, which is why we can only allow someone to take that next step after thorough consultation. But organizations should never be dependent on a single supplier. That\u2019s why one of our goals is to build up in-house expertise, so that a client can stand on its own two feet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vicky: At its core, it\u2019s about leaving things in such a way that your replacement can pick up right where you left off. A department or a specific role shouldn\u2019t be dependent on any one person\u2014we at Alistar really consider that to be very important.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cDemonstrate, do it together, do it yourself. That\u2019s our guiding principle.\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Jeffrey: Demonstrate, do it together, do it yourself. That\u2019s our guiding principle. At first, we didn\u2019t develop anything ourselves, even though Avans\u2019s ambition is to be agile and resilient. That starts with the support services within our organization, and that led to the decision to start developing software ourselves. When we at Avans began working more with Mendix, we brought in Alistar to show us how it\u2019s done. After that, we worked on it together for a while, and now we\u2019re able to build Mendix components on our own. That\u2019s a fantastic development and proof of a valuable partnership.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anna: We connect through our passion for education. We understand the challenges of being an educator. To achieve your goals, you need a foundation\u2014and that goes beyond knowledge and experience. It requires dedication from your people\u2014people who understand that Avans wants to grow and who are more than happy to contribute to that. That\u2019s what you\u2019re working toward. For a successful partnership, you need to understand through and through why a client does what it does. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jeffrey: That's it. That's also what defines Alistar: commitment. The desire to understand. There are very few companies that are as committed to an organization like ours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWe want to get better every day and make sure Avans gets better.\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Vicky: What I see in myself and my Alistar colleagues is that we all want to make a difference. It\u2019s not just about doing what you\u2019re supposed to do and then heading home. We want to get better every day and make sure Avans gets better every day. That\u2019s actually something Alistar looks for when hiring\u2014we\u2019re all people who go the extra mile. We don\u2019t just do what\u2019s asked of us; we improve processes and make our work more efficient.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jeffrey: That\u2019s really great to see. We also encourage people to take the initiative on their own. Of course, things don\u2019t always go as planned, but that\u2019s okay. It\u2019s okay to stumble. You can only learn from those experiences\u2014just as we\u2019ve been learning and growing together for almost five years now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anna: And we\u2019re all still learning every day. Alistar wouldn\u2019t be where we are today if we hadn\u2019t partnered with Avans. Jeffrey saw the potential and took a chance on us. We\u2019ve been given countless opportunities to discover who we are as a company, and many of our people have been given the freedom to excel at what they do.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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