DSM ICT
DSM’s mission statement reads “Our purpose is to create brighter lives for people today and for the generations to come. We connect our unique competences in Life Sciences and Material Sciences to create solutions that meet our customers’ challenges and nourish, protect and improve performance”.
DSM ICT (DICT) is of significant importance as we accomplish this. The world around us is transforming into a constantly developing information society, and we need innovative, sustainable solutions to keep pace. DICT helps us do that. With knowledge of DSM and its units, as well as external and internal best practices, it is committed to delivering smart, value-driven Information and Communication Services and Systems and Support. This enables DSM to steer, develop, adapt and compete in the best ways possible. Above all, it helps maintain our sustainable character – reflected in our attention to people and the planet, with an eye for profitable results. In other words, DICT will help keep DSM successful, now and in the future.
How does DICT contribute?
DICT is the enabler and engine behind our increasingly important high performance information culture. Information is key, and these days, ensuring its rapid flow is of strategic importance. With smart, innovative and sustainable solutions, DICT gives everybody at DSM the information we need to excel and accelerate.
For example, DICT provides us with the software and hardware we use for videoconferencing. Our employees can meet with colleagues across the globe from the convenience of their own offices, greatly reducing the need for travel. This increases efficiency, reduces hassle for our employees, and decreases CO2 emissions. And when it comes to increasing sustainability in this area, we think big. We recently held a ‘virtual’ version of our Top Management Conference, called e-TMC. At the videoconference, 350 of our top managers from all over the world met in virtual space – and DSM was the first non-ICT company to achieve this remarkable result.
Other sustainable initiatives in this area include the virtualization of infrastructure, which greatly reduces spend on energy and equipment, as well as a partnership between Purchasing and DICT, who are now cooperating to select key suppliers evaluated on elements such as quality assurance and sustainability. Efforts such as these align ICT services and applications to DSM’s high quality standards, and we’re pleased to say that our efforts have been noticed…and rewarded. On 16 December 2010, DSM received the Outsource Manager (TOM) Award for 'Most successful company in sourcing' by ICT Media and Outsource Magazine (OM). The award in an initiative designed to create and stimulate quality improvement and innovation for both the sourcing industry and its buyers. The Chairman of the jury, Rob de Haas, said: “DSM knows how to manage the tension between Purchasing and IT”.
