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[ December 14th 2012 ]
TBK Consult releases a new Ideal Market identification tool
Software-driven companies struggle when they have to decide which market to approach next. Will Germany, the US, the UK, Brazil, Sweden, Turkey, Australia or China provide the fastest return on investment? With the new Ideal Market Profile tool from TBK Consult, software-driven companies can now set the priorities based on... Read more »
[ December 3rd 2012 ]
Alain Van Hove joins TBK Consult in Belgium
Alain Van Hove, previously International Business Development Director with CorPeuM in Luxembourg, has joined TBK Consult in Belgium as Executive Partner Representing roughly 3% of total European demand, Belgium has a market size equivalent to Sweden and Austria.  The country’s tri-lingual characteristic combined with an English-speaking business community makes it an... Read more »
[ November 8th 2012 ]
The Danish IT Industry Association (ITB) repeats successful training course for software product managers
The first 15 seats at the new training course for Software Product Managers (SPM) were sold out in just 4 days and the course has been repeated three times in 2012. The SPM course will be offered again 14-16 January 2013 in Copenhagen. The course is the brainchild of The International... Read more »
[ November 1st 2012 ]
Fikret Idil Joins TBK Consult in Turkey
Firket Idil - previously ESSN Channel and SMB Sales Manager with Hewlett-Packard Turkey - has joined TBK Consult as an Associate Partner. According to the 2012 Turkey IT Expenditures Research conducted by IDC, the Turkish IT market is expected to have a 12% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) in the period... Read more »
[ October 25th 2012 ]
Jakub Polkowski joins TBK Consult in Poland
Jakub Polkowski previously CEE Sales Director & Managing Director of Xstream Poland has joined TBK Consult as an Associate Partner. The Polish market for ITC related products and services are of a size comparable to Sweden. In 2011 the Polish ITC market consumed more than 10 billion USD (31.3 billion PLN) of... Read more »
[ October 10th 2012 ]
TBK Consult offers free X-ray of management teams in the software industry
TBK Consult is offering a free X-ray, which can help identify the hidden potential in any management team in the software industry. Imagine that it is possible to scan or take an X-ray of a management team and identify issues that can be easily corrected and will improve the team’s performance... Read more »
[ September 26th 2012 ]
TBK Consult release video on organizational misalignment
Organizational misalignment is the most readily available source for productivity improvement in any organization TBK Consult has released a video illustrating why most organizations suffer from internal misalignment. The video also illustrates how the internal misalignment can be mapped and cured. Internal misalignment is the situation where the members of a management... Read more »
[ September 24th 2012 ]
Software Product Management training is a “hit” in Denmark
The 3rd ISPMA[1]-based training course in Denmark this year has been completed in Copenhagen Denmark has truly adopted the new training for software product managers based on the syllabus developed by the International Software Product Software Management Association (ISPMA). The first course was offered in January this year and was sold... Read more »
[ September 10th 2012 ]
Nicola Angelina joins TBK Consult in Italy
Nicola Angelina (46), formerly CEO of the SAP management consultant business unit of Reply, has joined TBK Consult as an Associate Partner.  Italy is the fourth largest market in Europe representing over 10% of demand for IT related products and services in the European Union. Italy is know for a lot... Read more »
[ August 30th 2012 ]
Rob Timmer appointed Senior Partner with TBK Consult
Rob Timmer (47), who joined TBK Consult as an associate partner in September 2011, will now also become co-owner of TBK Consult Holding ApS. Rob Timmer joined TBK Consult in September 2011 after more than 24 years with Philips in the consumer electronics industry. Rob Timmer is heading up a... Read more »
[ August 16th 2012 ]
Eva Sachse appointed as Executive Partner
Eva Sachse (46), who joined TBK Consult as an associate partner in December 2010, will now become co-owner of TBK Consult Holding ApS. Eva Sachse joined TBK Consult in December 2010 after more than 10 years with first Navision Software and later Microsoft, when they acquired Navision in 2002. Since... Read more »
[ July 13th 2012 ]
Richard Roness joins TBK Consult in Norway
Richard Roness (38), previously Xstream & Vizrt, joins TBK Consult as partner. Norway is an important market in the Nordic region.  According to the BECH index Norway represents 37% of the Nordic demand for IT product and services.  Due to the impact of the oil industry Norway has a solid economy... Read more »
[ June 14th 2012 ]
TBK Consult to Support Business Model Generation
As of today TBK Consult will be supporting the Business Model Generation canvas developed by Alexander Osterwalder & Yves Pigneur.  The term Business Model was introduced more than 10 years ago and has become the de facto standard for explaining how a business delivers value to its’ stakeholders and profits to... Read more »
[ June 4th 2012 ]
Marion Weidenhausen joins TBK Consult in Germany
Marion Weidenhausen (46), formerly Director of Plasma & Software Solutions Europe at Haemonetics GmbH, has joined TBK Consult as an Affiliate Partner.  Germany is the second largest software market in the world. Any software company with ambitions for market leadership, regardless of its country of origin, will have Germany on the... Read more »
[ May 15th 2012 ]
Steen Helmer has been appointed executive partner with TBK Consult.
Steen Helmer (50), who joined TBK Consult as an associate partner in December 2010, will also become co-owner of TBK Consult Holding ApS. The company owns the right to and drives the TBK Consulting activities worldwide. Mr. Helmer has extensive experience in assisting software-driven companies in the Microsoft Eco-system with international... Read more »
[ May 10th 2012 ]
Software Product Management Audit
Software Product Management Audit TBK Consult has packaged a Software Product Management Audit (SPM Audit) service for software driven companies. The service will enable software driven companies to ensure that their product management processes are optimized for scalable growth and improved profitability. Product Management is a critical function in any software driven... Read more »
[ April 27th 2012 ]
ITB repeats successful training for software product managers
The Danish IT Industry Association (ITB) repeats successful training course for software product managers The 15 seats at a completely new training course for Software Product Managers (SPM) were sold out in just 4 days. The SPM course will now be repeated September 3-5, 2012 in Copenhagen. The course is the... Read more »
[ April 4th 2012 ]
eBook for ISVs
Best Planning Practices for Independent Software Vendors TBK Consult has released an eBook with the title “Strategic Planning and Budgeting Guidelines for Independent Software Vendors.” The new eBook, written by software marketing veteran Hans Peter Bech (61), provides suggestions and ideas for managing “low visibility scenarios.”  Small and medium-sized Independent Software Vendors... Read more »
[ March 19th 2012 ]
The global market share of North America and the EU continue to yield
TBK Consult has released the “BECH Index” for 2011 showing the share of demand for IT related products and services for each country in the world. The share of North America dropped 3% and while South America gained 7,5% the two continents together lost 2% to the rest of the... Read more »
[ March 14th 2012 ]
TBK Consult expands in the Nordics
Jan de Blanck (57) joins TBK Consult to assist Independent Software Vendors (ISV) with global bootstrapping and channel building The Nordic markets have the best-educated workforces in the world and the Nordic societies are among the most egalitarian in the world, too. With a high level of education comes the highest... Read more »
[ February 28th 2012 ]
ISV Convention
A strong line up of speakers has been announced. Mobility, the Cloud and Business Analytics are among the key issues to ISVs to be addressed. Directors of leading ISVs from around Europe have registered to attend the European ISV Convention 2012 being held at the Grand Hyatt, Berlin on 1st March... Read more »
[ February 20th 2012 ]
TBK Consult expands in UK
Howard Tonge, senior management consultant, joins TBK Consult to assist Independent Software Vendors (ISV) with bootstrapping and channel building in the UK The UK market remains the jewel in the crown for all Independent Software Vendors worldwide. The size of the market combined with the language advantage often makes the UK... Read more »
[ February 9th 2012 ]
TBK Consult and IT Europa at ISV Convention
TBK Consult joins forces with IT Europa in supporting the development of the European software industry IT Europa and TBK Consult have agreed to join forces in bringing together the European ISV industry to encourage cooperation, partnerships and growth. The European software market is extremely fragmented and thus dramatically disadvantaged compared to... Read more »
[ January 25th 2012 ]
New training for software managers
The Danish IT Industry Association (ITB) repeats successful training course for software product managers The 15 seats at a completely new training course for Software Product Managers (SPM) were sold out in just 4 days. The SPM course will now be repeated March 26-28, 2012 in Copenhagen. The course is the... Read more »