Why Project Work is our mantra for the success of our customers

We introduced it in the last edition of “Facts that Figure” and keep talking about it ever since. Because, and in fact, we live by it every single day. Project work is really our recipe for success! And today as in the past and future, we have been or are working on many exciting projects in Canada, Colombia, Guatemala, The Netherlands, Zimbabwe … just to name a few. 

Market conditions have been changing fast already in the past, but nowadays things seem to happen at greater speed, requiring better decisions faster to stay ahead of the game.

So, what is it with project work that makes it such a different and better approach? 

“There are so many pros it sounds like a broken record”, says Xabier Arbe Managing Director of H&N International. 

Let’s look at all the Pros of Project Work together: 

Project Work -what does it really mean? 

It’s a form of fast and effective collaboration across boundaries or hierarchies. Imagine a big company with an architecture of solid and dotted reporting lines, defined processes, approval procedures et cetera et cetera pepe. All this takes considerable time. H&N International, too, deploys all necessary business procedures, of course, but on a much leaner, far more agile scale. 

At the same time each of my colleagues is a specialist in his or her area, empowered to take own decisions in their areas of expertise – after all, that’s what they are particularly great at. It’s their knowledge and experience that makes each of them great assets to the team. 

Everybody is informed about the goals and purpose of the project, but the specialist takes the lead. This is a very important concept, because it takes a holistic approach. All team members know the challenge and what is at stake, all work in one direction and towards one goal.

Does that mean that knowledge is proprietary? 

The very opposite! Everyone in our team is an expert. But there is no property in the sense of owning a field of expertise, a role or sitting on some exclusive knowledge. Each team member is responsible for the whole thing. 

But none of us is ever alone in this. We share our knowledge, each of us is always eager to learn new things and teach their own knowledge to others at the same time. And we always work on various projects together. This way of collaborating makes us faster in responding and catering to our customers. 

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