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-: Your company, Versuni,
has just successfully completed
the separation from Philips.
It has been a two-year journey
in which you had to drive a business
and IT transformation in parallel.
It must have been a very intense journey
with, at the end of it, a lean,
stand-alone domestic appliances company.
Congratulations on that.
And you decided to go,
what we call greenfield? -: Yes.
-: So everything new, business process and IT.
-: We see clearly that
in a digital transformation,
you should not be afraid to jump,
but also to know exactly
when to jump and how to jump,
because it gives you the opportunity
to simplify the processes,
to critical look to your capabilities,
but most important, to also understand
which system do I need to automate tasks,
but also to give you the right data
at the moment you need to take a decision.
So complete transformation
is the better option.
However, also the more risky option.
We thought that if we can do this
in two years, which is also quite fast,
it gives us an opportunity thereafter
to build on this platform
and also to take the next steps
in a faster way.
-: How complex was this
from a business perspective?
It's one thing to decide on everything new
and I think you also decide
on standard out-of-the-box. -: Yeah.
Jacqueline: But that has implications.
-: Yes, and the reason why it had implications
is because we thought also
in the business processes,
we could simplify, we could speed up,
but also we wanted to do
a little bit more open innovation.
And with that also,
you need to have connections
with companies and parties around you.
You might say that the transformation--
we used IT platform
to support the transformation,
which is, of course,
an enormous amount of change management.
-: So we worked together on this program,
BCG and Versuni.
Could you comment on the role of BCG?
-: I wanted to have a partner
that told me in private the truth,
was very critical, and did not give me fear
about everything that could go wrong,
but warn me, "These are the 'watch out'.
If you see this kind of behavior, think again."
-: If you look back at this journey,
what would you take away
for the future of Versuni?
-: It means that we now have a platform,
a platform that will enable us
to further simplify and speed up
the processes in our organization.
So the future for us is bright
if we keep on making the right choices.
And thank you and BCG for all the help.