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“We feel that we’re well positioned and that our portfolio of clients has a healthy spread between diferent sectors,” says regional manager Anne Hasselgreen. “Many of our clients have interesting technologi-cal challenges and are concerned to fnd new and more efcient ways of working. Our consultants appreciate that. We win contracts frst and foremost on the basis of our expertise.”

She fnds it particularly gratifying to receive a lot of feedback along these lines: “Your ex-pertise is very good, but you’re so nice as well. It seems that you, as such good colleagues,

enjoy being together.” Hasselgreen has seen the positive collaboration between Bouvet’s consultants also infecting clients.

SECURITY AND MOBILE APPS Security and mobile solutions have been the focus of a special drive by Bouvet in Bergen over the past year. Te initiative for such commitments often comes from the consultants themselves. Tey see the require-ments and the opportunities, and want to work with new concepts. When they also get the clients involved, this can be seen to have positive spin-ofs in every direction. Te Bergen ofce has developed mobile apps for Android and the iPhone, and is now pursuing developments with Windows mobile. Where security is concerned, risk and vulnerability analyses are among the services ofered. “We consider it a vote of confdence when key social institutions send their staf on IT security courses with us,” says Hasselgreen.

Western Norway is a growth region, and that is also refected at Bouvet. System development, web solutions, project

management and test management are among the growth areas at the Bergen ofce. “We want to expand without losing our commitment to making a collective efort,” says Hasselgreen. “We’ll stretch ourselves a long way before saying no to a client. We adjust quickly and do everything possible to deliver.” Although the labour market is tight, new well-qualifed people continue to join Bouvet. Hasselgreen particularly notes the good quality of recruits from Bergen’s educational institutions.

COLLECTIVE ACTION

She also sees a fantastic activity in devel-oping professionally. “What characterises people who work here is curiosity and a desire to learn. Tey’re also willing to invest personally in expertise development.”

Te spirit of collective action is also impor-tant in the ofce’s social events. “Our best parties are the ones without the white ta-blecloths,” a department manager in Bergen once said. “It’s important that everything isn’t laid on, but that everyone contributes to creating a good atmosphere.”

Bergen

Energy, banking/fnance and the public sector are the main areas covered by Bouvet’s Bergen offce. But it also delivers services in such industries as food, transport, shipping and education in this region.

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