Sofigate extends collaboration with Engineers Without Borders Sweden through Sofigate’s Trainee Program
As a way of contributing to a better society, we at Sofigate are engaging in projects together with non-profit organizations that we believe are having a positive impact on the world around us. We strive to use our professional knowledge within Business Technology to deliver excellent value with high quality and service to all our clients and promote sustainability, equality, and global development. We live our values – Dare, Care & Grow.
As of 2020, Sofigate has been a trusted partner for the non-governmental organization Engineers Without Borders Sweden (EWB-SWE), supporting in several areas related to their business technology.
What is Engineers Without Borders?
EWB-SWE is striving to make a long-term impact in the work towards the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals by addressing challenges linked to inequality and global development. For over 15 years, EWB-SWE has been driven by a single goal: to build a sustainable future for communities around the world. With sustainability and long-term thinking as guidance, they mobilize engineering expertise to provide innovative solutions, empower communities today and ensure their resilience tomorrow.
Sofigate and EWB – Business value through technology management
During 2022, a project was completed to streamline and reinforce IT Operations at EWB-SWE, by identifying and setting efficient, yet long-term solutions and processes that are adapted for EWB-SWE’s organization. With that set, it was time to put operations into practice and create business value through a well-managed technology management. To ensure that, an IT team was established consisting of Business Technology experts from Sofigate and volunteers and members from EWB-SWE. By adapting agile frameworks, the team worked in sprints to deliver business value through business technology.
”Sofigate has played a central role in building our technology capacity since the start of our collaboration and we are grateful for their continuous commitment and proactiveness in delivering support and expertise in this area”
Noemie Gonzales, Head of Corporate Partnership & Fundraising at EWB-SWE
In September 2022, the 9th edition of Sofigate Trainee Program in Sweden started. As part of the program, the trainees have been contributing to the important work done in EWB-SWE through three different projects. Through involvement in scoped assignments with support and guidance from Rebecca Fjällborg, Business Technology Manager, and Leonard Bogojevic, Business Technology Senior Analyst, as internal sponsors, the trainees got the opportunity to develop consulting competencies and gain consulting experience from start – leading to a steep development curve.
You can read more about the Sofigate Trainee Program here.
”The trainees offered invaluable insights on three key areas that will help us grow as an organization and be more efficient. Their recommendations and clear roadmap are serving as a springboard and the work has already started within our international projects”
Noemie Gonzales, Head of Corporate Partnership & Fundraising at EWB-SWE
How our trainees supported EWB in creating business value
Our trainees carried out three projects for EWB:
- Becoming GDPR compliant
The work resulted in developed guidelines, set ways of working and identified roles and responsibilities for the organization to stay compliant with existing GDPR regulations. Furthermore, all systems and tools used by the organization have been clearly documented and visualized with connected ownership to streamline IT management. With this delivery, EWB-SWE will, besides remaining long term compliant, also increase data security and avoid potential data breached due to established processes and data processing register. - Project management platform for international projects
A pre-study was performed where the project management platform for international projects was assessed. By identifying the current and target state, a gap analysis was made by defining and prioritizing functional, financial, and strategical requirements before conducting a benchmark and recommending a suitable solution together with an implementation plan. The new platform will not only meet all requirements, but also enable increased involvement, flexibility and interaction amongst stakeholders through a unified way of working and increased digitalization and automation. - Delivered a high-level implementation plan for an Intranet platform
To increase engagement and transparency within the organization, there has been a great need to gather information easily accessible for all members and volunteers. By identifying requirements across the whole organization a common understanding on the existing communication challenges was made. Furthermore, an Intranet was visualized and a suitable platform that will meet the organization’s demands was recommended. Finally, a high-level implementation plan was delivered to ensure a smooth transition and successful deployment of the new solution.
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