Nibor NEXT, digitalisation consultancy in Amstelveen52°18′N 4°51′ERD 118.4 · 479.2 km
We help organisations make choices in their digitalisation, and see those choices through.
Digital strategy · Portfolio management · Information management
There is no shortage of plans. The hard part is choosing, and then following through. This is what we see most:
(02) Services
We work on three subjects: digital strategy, portfolio management and information management. You can hire us as advisers, as interim managers or for working sessions. It often starts with one session or a clearly defined question.
We put all your running projects on one list. Then we choose together which ones go ahead and record that in a roadmap, with owners and fixed moments to adjust course.
How we approach portfolio managementWe map which data, applications and geo-information you have and who decides on what. Then we sort out data quality, standards and ownership. Our specialism is public space management.
How we get information management in orderSometimes someone has to do the work. We then fill a role for a while, for example as portfolio manager or PMO, write the proposals for the management team or steering committee, and hand over the way of working afterwards.
When interim management fitsIn a working session your team arrives at a shared picture and clear agreements. We facilitate this with LEGO® Serious Play®, with a roadmap session or with a large sheet of paper and sticky notes.
How a working session worksAlongside our broader work in digitalisation, we have two specialisms.
Specialism 1 · Public space and GIS
In public space, everything hangs on the map. We make sure the layers connect, from key register to the choice of which project goes ahead. We do not build GIS. We make sure the GIS landscape fits how you work and decide.
Specialism 2 · Operations and finance
Operations and finance hold a lot of data, but rarely where decisions are made. We look at what the business gains from that data and how to put it to work: in planning, reporting, control and automating repetitive work. For businesses and for government.
We do not advise on the choice of an ERP package. We do advise on what you do with the data.
As Chief Digital Officer of Siemens Netherlands, Robin initiated and led the development of an algorithm that schedules the work of service engineers across the country with as little travel time as possible. Siemens expected it to save around one million kilometres of driving in 2020.
Source: BNR Nieuwsradio, December 2019 ↗Robin led the Siemens team that won the Leadership Challenges with Data Analytics at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, in January 2020, with a use case on the maintenance of installations. The jury cited the systematic process approach, the smart use of data and the clear visualisation.
Source: Erasmus Centre for Data Analytics, January 2020 ↗(04) Approach
Our approach has four steps. Their first letters spell NEXT.
We map everything that is running, what the goals are and where things are stuck. After that, everyone is talking about the same thing.
We agree who decides what, and when. Without that agreement, every decision stalls.
What is still uncertain, we try out on a small scale first. Only then does serious time and money go into it.
We build what works into your normal way of working, so it stays after we have left.
At the end, your team has an overview to carry on with: which initiatives go ahead, who is responsible for what and how you decide.
(05) NEXTpedition®
A session on the future of work for executive and management teams. Two hours, up to 8 participants, location of your choice.
See NEXTpedition®How does the team work now
Where will it chafe when work changes
What do we keep, what changes, first steps
(06) Results
An information model with fourteen entities and seven phases. The management team took a decision on the tooling, and building a first version has started.
As information manager at the municipality, Robin initiated and led a project in which the data on more than 76,000 green-space objects was checked and corrected in less than a year, together with TAUW and Swink. Only around 400 objects still had to be inspected on site.
Source: Swink, April 2024 (in Dutch) ↗An algorithm that schedules the work of service engineers with as little travel time as possible. Siemens expected it to save around one million kilometres of driving in 2020.
Source: BNR Nieuwsradio ↗(07) About
Robin Kroonenberg founded Nibor NEXT. He worked at Siemens for ten years, ending as Chief Digital Officer of Siemens Netherlands. He then led the digitalisation of urban management at the City of Amsterdam.
More about Nibor NEXTThe name
NIBOR NEXT
Nibor is Robin spelled backwards. The rest of the story is private, but Robin is happy to tell you at an introductory meeting. NEXT stands for the four steps of our approach: Navigate, Empower, eXplore and Transform.
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