Product owner freelance / Self-employed Stendig, Owner Stendig IT, COO

* A demand driven approach instead of a supply driven approach!
* Predicting based on machine learning!
* Selling through the channel instead of selling to the channel!
Principles I stand for..
Principles that should lead in every market...
Principles that I have been able to shape in a platform application.
Weario was a startup, building THE Multi-sided platform for corporate fashion
and workwear.
Due to lack of new investors the shareholders chose to postpone any new
activities.
I strongly believe any business is in the midst of a transformative shift in
business design as business models move from "pipes" (pushing products to
consumers in a straight line), to platform business models.
Platforms as Uber have no stock themselves, but enable interactions in a plug-
andplay infrastructure, and enable value creation by (algorithmic) matching
the most relevant resources with consumers on the platform.
Together with Prof. dr. Cor Molenaar I was responsible for the strategy and
creation of the Weario Platform to be the best matchmaker in the market
of workwear and personal protection, using extensive machine learning
techniques.
Weario was supposed the new B2B platform for workwear/ corporate fashion,
PBM and related products and services.
The rise of multi sided platforms (B2C and B2B) is still happening...The
platform application I was responsible for has gone semi-live and was ready to
go to market. Unfortunately, we could no longer find additional funding.

Responsible for setting up an IT team within Groenendijk and introducing the
new custom clothing management system, now known as CorpWear.
This system has helped Groenendijk in the acquisition and operational
development of large accounts and has enabled the transition from a
monolithic system, separating ERP and web.
Within the newly established IT team we immediately supported many projects
and many projects within groenendijk originated here.
As manager of this team I was responsible for the following projects:
*Introducing and implementing CorpWear.
*Projectmanagement on the implementation of a new ERP system; Exact
Globe
*Introducing and implementing Skype for Business
* Moving to a brand new location and setting up new facilities
*Introducing new business concept of multisided platform together with Cor
Molenaar
*Implementation of new AVG business rules
*Web development projects
* Connecting procurement systems of new customers to the web environment
of Groenendijk at a rapid pace
*Implementing Office 365 together with the supplier
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In 2014 I started at Groendijk as manager of the web department. Soon I
introduced the idea to merge the existing web and order entry departments
into the current customer operations department. Together with my much
appreciated colleague Mike Salemink we have set up the new department,
introducing self-managing customer teams. This meant a change in the focus
from departments to customer teams with their own KPI's . We then also set
up a separate help desk, within CO. Responsible for big accounts like the
Dutch Railways.