Our mission
Re-invent relationships
to empower people & organizations
Our core values
Commitment
Accountability
Passion
Integrity
Our Vision
- WHY ARE WE UNIQUE3 reasons why choose for Business Elements
PEOPLE FIRST
Business Elements is a people-first business. As People are our first asset, we attract and retain highly skilled people. We achieve this goal by providing challenging career opportunities, attractive working conditions and professional and personal growth.
CUSTOMER SUCCESS
Customer success is part of our culture, where meeting the customers’ expectations for high quality sets the direction in everything we do. At Business Elements, we always strive to deliver projects on time, within budget and at the highest quality.
BUSINESS VALUE DRIVEN
Business Elements helps customers accelerate business innovation by transforming data into high business value and by leading them in the digital business transformation.
What People First means?
If we are "People First", what does this mean, on a daily basis for our people?
We gave the word at our employees because better than anyone, they know what makes their company unique and because they have the most face-to-face conversations with our customers and hearing what sets our company apart.
In a few words, our people express why they love Business Elements: Driven, opportunity, integrity quality, fun, wonderful colleagues, taking up big challenges, knowledge sharing, freedom,...
OUR LEADERSHIP TEAM
A team of experienced professionals
Laurent Deramaix
CEO
Laurent worked during 10 years for Microsoft where he took on the roles of Microsoft Advertising Country Director, Strategy & Operations Director, and Business Applications Director.
Before joining Microsoft, he was active in the media industry as Digital Director at RMB, CRM Project Leader at Traviata (Real Dolmen), Sales Manager at IRIS Group and Global Head of Sales & Marketing at Jonckers Software Localization.
Stéphane Dorrekens
CTO
After a first experience as co-founder of an ERP Service company, Stephane became one of the first certified Microsoft Dynamic CRM consultant in Europe and helped companies in implementations for more than 10 years before joining Business Elements. As one of the co-founder of the Dynamics 365 User Group for Belgium and Luxembourg, he also enjoys being a speaker at CRM eXtreme, CRMUG, Microsoft Technical Nights and 365 Saturday.
Nicolas Percy
Group Finance Manager
With a Master degree in Management, Nicolas has been building experience in audit. This experience lead him to capitalise different skills in terms of controlling and financial reporting, together with project management. Before joining Business Elements, Nicolas also worked in the cash transformation team of a large European bank. In October 2020, Nicolas joined Business Elements as Group Finance and Controlling Manager.
Lionel Van Zyl
Services Tribe Lead
Lionel obtained a Master degree in International Business and Management from ICHEC. Lionel started his career as a Project Consultant active in finance and controlling. Quickly after that, he gained experience in Microsoft Dynamics 365, first as a Senior Business Consultant and then evolved as an Engagement Manager. Working exclusively with Microsoft Solutions, Lionel became polyvalent and autonomous in Project & Account management, Business Analysis, Users training, budget follow-up. At Business Elements, Lionel is Tribe Lead, responsible for the hiring, coaching, planning and delivery of the consulting teams. an
Björn Laroy
Chapter Lead
Björn started more than 10 years ago in Microsoft Dynamics CRM and has been recognized in 2020 by Microsoft as a FastTrack Solution Architect for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement. Besides architecting and leading multiple CRM/Power Platform implementations, Björn owned five full cycle cloud transformation journeys for various enterprise clients. He has demonstrated deep expertise across the breadth of Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement applications, building a strong tenure focused on customer satisfaction through best practices and commitment to quality. Björn loves challenging projects and strives to exceed client expectations through optimal solutions delivered on time. He believes in continuous learning and actively partners with his peers to foster the spirit of collaboration.
Estelle Fremaux
Country Manager Luxembourg
Estelle started in Law firms and later redirected her career in Business applications. She worked as a Project consultant, Project Manager, Program Manager internationally, Head of Microsoft Business applications and finally Country Manager for Business Elements Luxembourg. She is passionate about supporting her clients’ strategies to drive growth by evolving their organization into the digital age.
- OUR WORK ORGANISATIONAutonomy and trust are at the center of the organization at Business Elements
At Business Elements, we decided to structure the organization to enable agility, inspired by the Spotify Tribe Model.
The Spotify model is a people-driven, autonomous approach for scaling agile that emphasizes the importance of culture and network. It has helped Spotify and other organizations around the world to increase innovation and productivity by focusing on autonomy, communication, accountability, and quality.
An agile tribe structure
An agile tribestructure is the sweet spot between making teams autonomous while still
enabling the sharing of knowledge between people even if they are not working
together on a daily basis.People do not havefixed roles, they can grow and change role very easily.
ragraph text here.The Business Elements team is organised around work in Squads, Tribes and Chapters.
SQUADS
Each Squad is cross-functional and autonomous team focused on a project that guides the work they do, an agile coach (Squad Lead) for support and a product owner for guidance.
TRIBES
When multiple Squads coordinate within each other on the same subject, they form a Tribe. Tribes ensure alignment across Squads and cross-pollinate knowledge.
Each Tribe has a Tribe Lead who is responsible for helping coordinate across Squads and for encouraging collaboration.
CHAPTERS
Even though Squads are autonomous, it’s important that specialists align on best practices. Chapters are the family that each specialist has, helping to keep engineering standards in place across a discipline. Chapters are typically led by a senior technology lead, who may also be the manager for the team members in that Chapter.
The Chapter lead is the line manager of the chapter members and support them in their personal growth and specific challenges.
Business Elements is a recognised Microsoft Partner
MICROSOFT SOLUTIONS PARTNER FOR BUSINESS APPLICATIONS
As a Solutions Partner for Business Applications, we demonstrate our broad capability to deliver solutions with Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform. Becoming a Solutions Partner for Business Applications gives customers a way to identify us as a partner who has the commitment to training and accreditation, and has delivered solutions that lead to customer success.
MICROSOFT SOLUTIONS PARTNER FOR DIGITAL & APP INNOVATION (AZURE)
As a Solutions Partner for Digital & App Innovation (Azure), we demonstrate our broad capability to help customers build, run, and manage applications across multiple clouds, on premises, and at the edge, with the tools and frameworks of your customer's choice. Becoming a Solutions Partner for Digital & App Innovation (Azure) gives customers a way to identify us as a partner who has the commitment to training and accreditation, and has delivered solutions that lead to customer success.
LOW CODE APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT ADVANCED SPECIALIZATIONThe Low Code Application Development advanced specialization allows partners to validate their expertise in building digital solutions using Power Apps and related technologies. This expertise has been verified through customer deployments and Microsoft certifications, ensuring skilled partners deliver high quality implementations.
MICROSOFT CLOUD PARTNER PROGRAMThe opportunities for Microsoft partners are significant. The capabilities that are required by our customers are evolving, and our programs are changing to meet that demand.
The Microsoft Cloud Partner Program is focused on simplifying programs, delivering greater customer value, investing in growth in new ways, and recognizing how to deliver customer value.
DELIVERY PARTNER 2023 FOR APP IN A DAYOrganizations holding this credential meet and maintain defined criteria required to successfully deliver an In a Day workshop.
- MUST BE A MICROSOFT PARTNER
- MUST HAVE CERTIFIED CONSULTANTS
- MUST MEET CUSTOMERS SATISFACTION RATING
MICROSOFT TIER 1 CLOUD SOLUTION PROVIDERA Tier 1 Cloud Service Provider is a partner who works directly with Microsoft
