TBK Consult expands in the Nordics

March 14, 2012 - PRLog -- The Nordic markets have the best-educated workforces in the world and the Nordic societies are among the most egalitarian in the world also. With the high level of education comes the highest average salaries in the world and with the political support of egalitarianism comes the highest degree of taxation. This cocktail produces very high levels of operational costs for all type of enterprises, private as well as public. Thus the incentives to invest heavily in productivity improvement measures are extremely strong. The investment environment in the Nordic markets is the platform for entrepreneurship in the local software industry and the innovation power is mainly focused on productivity improvement products and services.

“The main challenge for the Nordic software industry is not lack of captive test market, but lack of volume market,” says Jan de Blanck, executive partner with TBK Consult. “The Nordic markets are 4 individual markets and not one of them represents more than 0,75% of global IT demand. Software companies from the Nordics are typically very small when they embark on the road to international market penetration. The TBK Consult concepts and global network of partners are designed exactly to compensate for this dilemma."

Jan de Blanck has more than 25 years of experience in getting software products, solutions and services to the international markets. Jan has over the years built an extensive (1000+) personal network in the Nordics, Western Europe, North America, Australasia and The Middle East. Jan had held positions as CEO and VP Sales and Marketing in several software companies with international focus and strategies.

Jan holds a Bachelor of Commerce in Marketing and Economics.

“Genuine international business development experience is extremely rare,” says Hans Peter Bech, CEO of TBK Consult “With Jan de Blanck on board we have added a senior experienced international business development expert to the TBK network.  Jan has been in the field for many years and knows what it takes to build a market from scratch and take his company to a leading position. The practical experience and the personal network is what our clients are looking for to help them accelerate their own international market penetration.”

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TBK Consult is an international management consulting firm with a 100% focus on internationalisation in the software industry and offices in DK, SE, NO, FI, BE, The NL, DE, AT, CH, UK, FR, IT, SP, IL, USA, CA, ZA, SG and IN.