Facing the challenge together

ICT Group wants to be recognised as the system builder for industry-specific and cross-industry solutions. Our challenge is to cooperate with customers and other partners to make processes run ever more efficiently, flexibly and simply. In this way we contribute to a smarter world, in particular in the domains Cities, Industries and Healthcare.

Our knowledge in these three domains is increasing all the time as we are active every day in the underlying markets, such as logistics, automotive, industrial automation, machines and systems, healthcare and energy. Here we realise solutions and system integrations that often go further than the size of the project. This calls for a good helicopter view. And for adequate scale, specialist knowledge and experience with advanced development technology. These requirements are and remain important for our strategic decisions.

ICT has a buy & build strategy, which means that we want to grow both inorganically and organically. With regard to the first, our takeover last year of Strypes and Raster were important. Strypes is a Bulgarian company and key preferred supplier for ASML, among other companies. With their fast development methods they offer us both high-quality nearshoring capacity as well as cost benefits. Raster is a Dutch specialist in industrial automation and its activities include the offshore market and the petrochemical industry. The company offers industry knowledge that ICT does not yet or not sufficiently possesses and also strengthens our position vis-à-vis global players such as Schneider Electric.

As a result of the direction taken over the last few years, ICT now employs about a 1000 natural born techies, who together form one of the largest suppliers on the market and offer a unique combination of specialist and domain knowledge. They are continuously being challenged, both by our customers and by ICT itself, to keep increasing their knowledge and expertise. We do this, for example, in the form of our up-to-date training programmes and by means of initiatives that contribute to an inspiring and innovating work environment. One example of this is the ‘Council of 20’, a group of young ICT talents who help the whole organisation push boundaries.