Contrasticon provides you with specialist expertise in partnerships business collaboration. Typical roles that we take on in various phases of the customer / supplier relationship lifecycle:
- Trusted advisor and sounding board
- Coach, trainer
- Collaboration change consultant
- Partnershipanalist and –therapist
- Mediator
- Change manager
Contrasticon is rooted in the IT industry, and most assignments are aimed at creating or improving customer / supplier relationships in IT. IT Governance is an area of expertise important for many collaboration issues in IT. Contrasticon is knowledgeable in this area, and many of our assignments build equally on our expertise in both IT Governance collaboration.
Organisation
Contrasticon is a consulting firm and a network organisation. Below are some of Contrasticon’s consultants and associates:
Dr. J.A. (Joost) van Boeschoten – principal Joost is a specialist in collaboration between IT organisations and IT governance. After a 25 year career as a consultant and manager in major international IT organisations, Joost started as an independent consultant in 2006 working with IT customers and suppliers. He helps them create successful collaboration between them, creating new relationships or improving existing ones. Joost is a registered mediator with the Mediatorsfederatie Nederland (MfN), and associated mediator with the Stichting Geschillenoplossing Automatisering (SGOA).
Arie Ossewaarde is an indepent consultant for IT suppliers and their customers who wish to chose the right partner and implement collaboration for complex IT-transformation. For more than 30 years he has been working with CMG, CSC en HP in senior commercial positions between supplier and customer. From 2009 to 2014 Arie held European responsibility for HP clients in banking and insurance. He knows from experience the success and fail factors in complex and business critical collaboration between customer and IT-supplier. With his expertise he makes sure that suppliers and customers take the right decisions when chosing partners and implementing collaboration.
Ir. J.P. (John) Batteram – associate John is a consultant, trainer and coach with a strong focus on leadership, team development and cultural change. He applies new leadership models that match the need for integral and inspiring managers. Earlier John had a 21 year career with CGI / Logica / CMG as manager responsible for systems development, application management and outsourcing. John holds certifications for Myers-Briggs MBTI (personality analysis) and Best Year Yet (programme management).
Gerard A.M. Otten FBCS CITP MMC CMC CISA Gerard has a background in IT and economics. He optimises processes and governance in organisations that are dependent on IT for good operation / collaboration. This he practiced successfully for many years at the Big-4 and with IBM at both multinationals and SME’s, in very large but also very small-scale projects. Since 2002 Gerard works as an independent consultant on a regular basis in conjunction with consultancies and partners in projects to optimise business processes and IT organisation.
Dr. P (Pieter) van der Ploeg is independent consultant with special interest in IT-sourcing, IT-organisation and (cloud)service architecture. Before that he worked with Dutch Railways in various positions including head of information management, head of CIO Office, operations manager and contract & vendor manager.Pieter was closely involved in the founding of the second telecom operator in The Netherlands, worked as management consultant with BSO and as datacenter manager and product manager with Philips Electronics.
He published articles on business continuity, service management and IT-sourcing. Pieter studied Chemical Physics and holds a PhD in Physics and Mathematics from the University of Groningen, The Netherlands.