Welcome to Design Talk, I’m Kaushiki Agrawal

I’m Christoph Neunsinger

And I’m Akki Kumar and we are MSc Business Analytics students from UCD Smurfit Business School.

Today we are ‘in conversation’ with Padraig Coffey (CEO) and Angel Benito (CTO) from Zartis, a software consulting firm situated in Cork, Ireland, talking about how to expand consultancy efforts and working with clients from different industries.

1.     How did you tackle the challenges of rapid expansion of Zartis from your founding through to now?

2.     Can you talk about your experiences expanding into new markets [countries or product markets?]

3.     The half-life of technology is incredibly short, how do you and your teams stay up-to-date?

4.     What do you consider when forming teams for client engagements? [When forming teams do you consider personal traits, knowledge maps?]

5.     When working with clients, do you have a general approach to problem-finding, a methodology or process to get the big picture?

6.     Let’s take a case, if client wants to do advanced analytics, but their systems are old or their data is a mess: how do you cope with deep strategic transformations [get client on board, manage expectations etc.]

7.     We’re interested understanding some of the problems of consulting. For example, how do you avoid the ‘halo’ problem? [e.g. fallen into the trap of ‘knowing best’ or reusing solutions from one site on another site without considering]

8.     Can you talk about your approach to Corporate Social Responsibility and outreach? [e.g. LevelUP]

Questions from the audience.

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That’s probably a good point to wrap it up.

Thank you for taking the time to talk with us today.

Notes, extra questions, and further reading:

Zartis (https://www.zartis.com)

Padraig was a guest on the pod back at episode 169 and cross-released by Zartis at…

https://www.zartis.com/podcasts-story-of-software/design-talk/where-does-design-happen/

Acknowledgements

Music 

Title: “It was just cold”

Artist: Andrew Codeman

Source: https://bit.ly/2Msarcj

License: “CC BY 4.0”

Cover Art 

Title: Eras ITC + photo of panel + 25% shp, 60% brt, -14% cnt, 400% sat, 11,200K, greyscale, pastels smooth.

Artist: Allen Higgins

Source: podcast-Angel.pptx

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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