When we told Patrycja Fabińska that we wanted to talk about her approach to human resources, she gave us a fiery look. Then, in an instant, a disarming smile lit up her face as she spoke to us in a voice that was somehow soft and firm at the same time: “Around here, HR stands...
As soon as Tomasz Banach walks into a room, you can feel the energy shift. The Recruitment Coordinator at Directio has a contagious enthusiasm for connecting talented individuals with the right opportunities. “I don’t run a sales team, you know,” he says with a spark in his eye. “Here, we’re not about selling people to...
For a fast-growing business in a fast-changing world not having enough data is rarely an issue. Quite the opposite. Decision-makers are often confronted with sets upon sets of unorganized and unrefined facts coming at them from various sources in a myriad of different formats at speeds and volumes too great to keep up with. When...
At Directio, we solve complex problems with clean lines of simple, elegant code – all while having fun in the process! As we grow and evolve, we’ve decided to update our visual identity to better reflect our mission. Our software engineers wanted to inspire a team of talented artists to express the best principles of...
The market is ever-hungry for skilled IT professionals. The combined forces of high demand and relatively low supply squeeze higher and higher rates out of clients who desperately try to outsource both their daily IT operations and special projects after the perspective of staffing an in-house IT unit became untenable due to potential employees being...
Plug-and-play products are truly convenient, but here’s the rub: their developers mostly enjoy the convenience. All too often, “sell and forget” seems to be the motto. The end-user experience, however, is a different story. Introducing a rigid system into a living and breathing business carries a risk of stifling it. That’s why you don’t want...
Around the world, around the clock, and always on your local time. With the opening of its brand-new office in Mexico City, Directio is demonstrating its commitment to providing top-notch technology solutions to businesses on a global scale. The new location will allow the company to better serve its growing client base in the Americas...
The Problem: Illusion of juggling With over 100,000 employees globally, one of the biggest multinational corporation has a lot of data to analyze. Divided into small teams in different locations, every project manager chooses the best tools for themselves. Some use Trello, others Jira, etc. This little autonomy is crucial for them to operate on...
My biggest personal experience working in a multivendor environment was some years ago with Directio as a project manager for a large client. Our client had just acquired another company in a $12.5bn deal. My piece of this giant pie was concerned with the evaluation, acquisition and absorption or replacement of seven applications together with...
IT service demands are difficult to forecast precisely. Large corporations struggle with capacity management especially when the list of new projects is growing. This demand might be addressed by IT Service Companies that specialize in managing resources that are waiting for assignment (sitting on a bench) to a commercial project/contract but remain on the payrolls...