Smart companies are proactively pursuing an effective partnership between HR and IT. After all, both departments play a crucial role in keeping the digital transformation in an organization on the right track. Based on existing theories and a new survey of Flemish companies, Kwinten Seghers and Simon Schelpe investigate the possibilities in their master's thesis 'Organization and Management'.

To further expand our software development offering, we added a web development team to our portfolio last year. Through custom development, we can help every type of customer, including start-ups with smaller initial budgets. We have a wide range of expertise for this purpose. People are always at the heart of our company, so we'd like to let two of our web developers have their say. They explain how they make a difference, what their energizers are, and take you behind the scenes of the team.

Video conferencing is the future. Now that we are working from home on a massive scale and are no longer able to attend physical meetings (or at least, a lot less), we are doing more video conferences than ever before. An ordinary phone call or a classic business trip? That's virtually a thing of the past. Video conferencing not only saves costs, it is also better for the environment. We would like to share some tips for efficient video conferencing.

To further stimulate the development of data awareness among the employees of the Port of Antwerp, we built a virtual cockpit that charts the use of Power BI within the organization. This allows the company to make recommendations on how the reports and resulting insights can be even better aligned with their objectives. In this way the Port Authority is vigorously building the culture that is necessary in a data-driven organization.

Your security – even when you travel – is important to Inetum-Realdolmen, which is why we offer different levels of security: end-users, company level, business level. To ensure that you can go on vacation with your laptop in complete safety, we would like to give you a few extra tips that you should think about before setting off.

Gone are the days when we used a printer only to print documents and had no idea about the cost. As a business, you need an all-in-one solution that is also part of a secure printing environment. Managed Print Services (MPS) from HP lets you create a secure printing environment where you have full oversight and control, all with the best hardware. What can MPS do for you and what benefits can it bring to the modern workplace? Find out more here.

In every situation where value is created there is a stream of activities, also known as the value stream. By deliberately analyzing the details of this stream, you can make its sequence visible and then improve it. Particularly in software delivery, this clear view is often missing. It proves its value, for example, when you are trying to break down silo thinking. Visualizing work from other silos helps to create greater empathy. Here we explain the basic principles of a value stream, a value stream network, and value stream mapping.

Once the built software has been extensively tested, it's time for the release so that users can learn about the new function(s). When something comes to life, you have to let go of it to a certain extent. Of course, this has to be done under controlled conditions. There are numerous strategies to control the go-live as much as possible. In addition, using observability to monitor whether the software works as intended, as well as whether it is used as intended, is a smart move. Discover how all this works.

Modernizing applications is often seen by the business side of an organization as a purely technical matter that provides little added value for them. However, migrating an application to today's technology also provides benefits that should arouse their interest. It is therefore in everyone’s interest to reveal the added business value so that business and IT, side by side, can do their part to eliminate the accrued technical debt. We offer a number of reasons and tools to make this application modernization alliance successful.

Once a business idea has been translated into one or more features, the product team can get to work on it. They ensure that the described requirements are translated into a digital solution to help tackle the initial business challenge. We will take a closer look at the ongoing software delivery process and take you through the characteristics of a product team that, in an agile way, helps create value in an end-to-end flow, from idea to value.

At Inetum-Realdolmen, people are in the driver's seat of their own careers. In doing so, we encourage them to continuously acquire new knowledge, hone skills and push boundaries. Of course, this is important for their own development and so we can ensure that we can continue to meet the evolving needs of our customers. This shows that there is an increasing demand for low-code profiles. Naturally, we are responding to this. We are facilitating this evolution internally, since reskilling to low-code appears to be a nice continuation of employees' career for many profiles. One of our employees who switched from mainframe to low-code is proof perfect of this.

Technical debt is a familiar concept in the world of software development. There is however a tendency to associate technical debt with 'outdated' legacy systems rather than 'modern' agile software development. It is precisely the iterative, incremental nature of agile working and the associated desire to accomplish predefined sprints that can increase our tendency to take shortcuts or detours that may burden our software projects with technical debt. It is therefore important to keep a lookout for technical debt building up during agile projects.