Errol van Engelen

Errol van Engelen has a professional background in business development, outsourcing and ICT. His focus lies on business planning, product management, go to market and sales & marketing on behalf of ICT and Consulting companies, both from the Netherlands and from emerging countries, such as India and China. In these last mentioned countries he has built a network of technology suppliers, who are, with regard to innovation, sometimes ahead of Europe. In the last quarter of 2010 he will organise, together with a business partner from the USA, a Discovery Tour to India and China, both for end-users and ICT service providers.

In 2005 he published a book written in Dutch and entitled ‘Outsourcing: lokaal kostenbeheer – globale levering’. Worldwide, various organisations are engaged in outsourcing business processes, such as ICT, HRM and Finance & Accounting. “By nature, outsourcing is a reorganisation of work. Companies who have organised that process adequately, manage their costs better than companies who have not outsourced. Improvement of competitiveness however, also requires other topics, such as knowledge and innovation”.

Results from a worldwide research under CEO’s showed that launching new products or services and new business models are the best types of innovation for a company. Product innovation within companies largely depends on the internal Research & Development (R&D) department, who is hardly able to keep up with the speed of innovation. As a Web 2.0 follower, he is able to provide services supporting the innovation management process, both for closed innovation and innovation & crowdsourcing – where connection to adequate knowledge communities plays a prominent role.

Errol van Engelen is your guide in your search for improvement and acceleration of outsourcing and innovation. Thanks to his worldwide network, he can put you in contact with technology suppliers who can give you both in costing and innovation, an advantage over your competitors. He is convinced that companies more and more are willing to search outside the country borders to expand or renew their product or services portfolio – and to pay competitive prices.