About IBS Academy

IBS Academy is a global Center of Competence in Project Business Management.

Collaboration is what determines success or failure in Project Business.

We provide specialised training services to organizations aiming to enhance their collaborative capabilities in Project Business. This includes:

  • For vendors, suppliers, and contractors: How to sell better.
  • For clients, project owners and developers: How to procure better.
  • For public authorities, financiers: How to govern better.
  • For all: How to develop successful projects. Together.

Collaboration in Project Business should not be left to chance. We make it a deliberate strategy.

IBS_Academy_We are on a Mission

We are on a Mission...

We want to improve the way organizations and their people collaborate in Project Business.

Project Business is a complex endeavor on which clients and suppliers are mutually dependent. The way they establish and maintain collaboration is a key component in their mutual success or failure.

However, the management of collaborative relationships is too often left to chance in most organizations. Wrong approaches and mindsets are also too often applied. It should not be!

We need new tools to think across this space, to not only realize successful, high-value, and sustainable project assets for organizations and society at large but also to empower organizations and their people to change the way they do business for the better.

We believe in furthering a new way of managing collaboration in a structured way, with methods and mindsets that are practical and actionable in Project Business.

We believe that collaboration in Project Business is the next Big Thing.

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Win Projects. Together.

Professional collaboration in Project Business

At IBS Academy, we have made out of Project Business a distinct management discipline.

 

In the ultra-competitive 21st century, collaboration management becomes a strategic capability for organizations involved in Project Business.

For people and their organizations, the ability to consistently establish new collaborative relationships, externally or internally, in their projects can no longer be regarded as “nice to have” and left to good luck.

Instead, collaboration should be managed as a discipline, like other operational processes of the organization, such as Quality, Finance, or HR management.

Project Business provides a framework and a body of knowledge to handle collaboration in a systematic, structured, scientific way.

Ultimately, the power of Project Business is to enable people and their organizations to consistently engineer collaboration with business partners and to transform it into a core competency that is vital to success in B2B projects.

Who we are and what makes us unique

We are committed to providing professional development to organizations and professionals engaged in solution business and complex projects

Because who else does it?

We are committed to providing professional development to organizations and professionals engaged in solution business and complex projects

Because who else does it?

We put under one roof trainings for both sales and procurement functions.

Because in solution business, clients and suppliers are not opposed. They have a mutual interest in developing a high-value solution (Hence collaboration).

We focus on collaboration established early in the project.

Because the early stages are where solutions are won or lost (refer to the McLeamy curve).

We are experienced business engineers ourselves.

We know what works and what does not. Our methods are directly actionable and effective. We practice what we preach.

We borrow from professional disciplines such as system engineering, project management, and value engineering.

Because their very purpose is to design and build successful solutions.

We oppose the application of B2C sales and procurement techniques to the field of solution business.

Because these practices (and mindset) are in essence transactional, adversarial, and often unethical.

We think “System”.

Because Systems are repeatable, integrative, and collaborative: exactly what we need in the solution business.

We have developed a body of knowledge and discipline: Project Business Management.

A structured framework helps to unpack the relationships enabling the development of high-value Solutions AND collaborative relationships with your customers and stakeholders.

We guarantee our performance and your results.

We are totally committed to our clients. We are your partner for life. We practice what we preach (bis).

Want to learn more about our collaborative methods in Project Business for your organization?