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In just five short years, 5Minds, an IT consultancy company based in Germany has grown its operations from 5 to 65 employees, with immediate plans to open two satellite offices. Currently, they serve over 50 major clients across several verticals, providing specialized IT solutions that help them digitalize their businesses. For the 5Minds team, this feat would have not been possible if it weren’t for the highly collaborative atmosphere they have managed to build over the years.
“The three of us came from big corporations. We wanted to adopt a corporate culture that was different from what we were used to,” says Björn Röber, one of the three chief executive officers of 5Minds. Together with co-founders Nicole Jones and Martin Möllenbeck, they oversee business operations, particularly with sales, marketing, and distribution.
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In just five short years, 5Minds, an IT consultancy company based in Germany has grown its operations from 5 to 65 employees, with immediate plans to open two satellite offices. Currently, they serve over 50 major clients across several verticals, providing specialized IT solutions that help them digitalize their businesses. For the 5Minds team, this feat would have not been possible if it weren’t for the highly collaborative atmosphere they have managed to build over the years.
“The three of us came from big corporations. We wanted to adopt a corporate culture that was different from what we were used to,” says Björn Röber, one of the three chief executive officers of 5Minds. Together with co-founders Nicole Jones and Martin Möllenbeck, they oversee business operations, particularly with sales, marketing, and distribution.
“As CEOs, we aim to provide our staff with a working environment that we wished for when we were still employed in our previous companies.” Internally, their goal was to create a workplace that fostered self-responsibility, accountability, and trust. Björn notes: “Dictating what our employees have to do scales the business but demotivates employees. We acknowledge that it’s much more valuable to support every employee and have them work more independently.”
In line with this vision, they needed a solution that would help them convert their standard meetings rooms into haptic workspaces that would allow for more free-flowing, creative collaboration.
“Other solutions we looked at were nonintuitive,” says Björn, noting the complexity of other products that come with special peripherals. According to him, Jamboard’s simplicity had ultimately convinced them. Since operating the Jamboard mimics the use of tablets and actual whiteboards, he and the rest of the 5Minds team could walk over to one and start coworking without the need for training.
“Jamboard’s G Suite integration also played in our favor,” adds Björn. “We’ve been using G Suite for several years now to co-work on documents and presentations from anywhere.” This portability in terms of work was an important point to consider. With their immediate plans to expand their operations to other sites, not to mention how often they have to meet with remote clients, it was crucial for them to be able to discuss, brainstorm, and present ideas wherever they were.
“At one point it was clear that we needed to find a solution that would let us work from different locations,” says Björn. Using the updated Meet for Jamboard feature, they are able to easily schedule and cast quick remote live sessions on whichever devices their coworkers or clients are using. Through live sessions, they can consolidate and apply feedback in real-time as if they were in the same room; it makes coming to a consensus faster.