Inspirational leaders aren’t born; they are forged in knowledge and courage. 

And my ambition is to be an inspirational leader to my team, businesses, the industry I work in, my clients, and also to myself. 

I am driven by the idea of doing the right thing, leading by and through fundamentally sound principles: courage, curiosity, commitment, cognition. 

I aspire to inspire with my words and actions.

My company octopusIT is an expression of my words and actions, and I feel I have taken the right steps towards becoming that leader.

The octopusIT team (of superstars) and I are guiding the industry towards (C) SaaS and are very excited for the time ahead of us and are looking forward to all the challenges we are going to discover.

In the following months, I will be sharing my thoughts about the foundational pillars of octopusIT and why it is important that we achieve our goals: shifting work from humans to computers. 

Because at the core of everything we do is our vision:

“IT for the right reasons: Optimizing processes that set humans free
to do things that matter.”

Find out more on our newly launched website https://octopusit.nl/.

IT for the right reasons: Optimizing processes that set humans free to do things that matter.

Inspirational leaders aren’t born; they are forged in knowledge and courage

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What I want - as I imagine everybody does - is a happy and healthy life. But in a fast-paced, performance society where we are assessed not only on our professional achievements but also on our personal ones, I sometimes find this hard to achieve. 

When I think about the forces in my life having an impact on happiness and health, I can identify two flows that make up 100% of my time spend awake: Work and pleasure. 

Work takes energy. Pleasure gives energy. 

The key to happiness and health in my life is balancing the two. I can feel my body and mind going into resistance when I spend too much time working OR relaxing. I will be inclined to move more towards the other one. But let me tell you, ignoring my resistance for too long had always brought bad days to me. 

So, how to balance work and pleasure the best way?

Well, that depends on the type of person you are. Some people feel perfectly fine with a 75-25 work-pleasure ratio. Others are at their best with 25-75. In our achievement-oriented society, however, you are considered lazy when only 25% fall onto work. I disagree entirely with this. 

We created a world in which 40h work weeks are the norm, and we expect our people to be productive this whole time. And yes. For some people, that works well. For many others, it doesn't work at all. Depression and burnout are on the rise. 

I know this sounds cynical, but perhaps it's time to explore what we can do differently?

I believe the goal should be to help people find their purpose in life and not max out their labor capacity. To create time for things that really matter: building and maintaining relationships. There is plenty of work that can't be done by a computer and requires actual humans. Social and community work. Care for children and the elderly. Teaching. Being a nurse and many more. And I believe people should be able to do that without worrying about their survival, which translates to having to pay rent in our modern times. 

Suppose we can find a way to create happier and healthier lives by optimizing business processes that set human energy free to do work that matters: What would that do to your work-pleasure balance?

Keep an eye out for the second part of this blog series and explore what human energy is and how that is part of your identity.

IT for the right reasons: Optimizing processes that set humans freeto do things that matter.

Why use IT to set humans free to do things that matter?

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Component-based development (CBD) is a way of creating and combining design and development of software through reusable software components, which are means of breaking an application into manageable parts. By using a well-defined software architecture, it provides the perfect foundation of flexible, maintainable, performant and high quality software with coherent designs. 
From a technical perspective: components are functionally independent parts of any system. It performs some function and may require some input or produce some output.
From a UI perspective: components can be recognized by standalone elements, e.g. a button or user card that are reused throughout the application. They are flexible in nature and can be large or small.

At Octopus, we are all about providing the most value and including our clients throughout the whole process. We define this process through CBD as follows:
- Design thinking: find out why and what, and how this may be accomplished by using components
- Styleguide: define all (reusable) components
- Planning and setting goals for delivery: minimized (small) components and frequent delivery
- Versioning: Minimum Viable Product and testing components with the audience
- Feature releases and maintenance: continuous improvements, testing and maintenance of components

In short, the flexible nature of CBD allows for creating coherent designs that targets the audience and fulfills a set goal, gathering feedback and seamlessly implementing and maintaining software improvements at any stage.

Would you like to learn more about how we think about CBD and how we like to implement it from a technical perspective? Sign up for our upcoming tech event by sending us a message!

At octopus, we believe the best software and great user experience (UX) comes with coherent user interfaces (UI) and functionalities. Sounds familiar? Then component-based development might be an interesting topic for you.

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