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Digital competitiveness through IT optimisation and strategy review

Are you missing out on opportunties due to outdated, unscalable or inflexible IT? Our advisors have more than 20 years’ experience in diagnosing and fixing root causes, optimising IT foundations and improving digital competitiveness.

Flexibility and successful projects through experts-as-a-service

Organisations and employees are often put under stress during larger IT projects and organisational change. Whether for a project or interim CxO, when you add our experts-as-a-service you add a flexible and skilled plug-and-play safeguard to your business.

Peace of mind through hassle-free application management and -support

Your IT is a dynamic differentiator that provides and nurtures opportunities. We offer highly skilled application management to keep it updated and safe as well as user support and training to ensure you get the most from your IT investment.

Thomas Okke Frahm, IZARA CEO Managing Partner

International top executive takes over as IZARA CEO & Managing Partner

Posted in News by Thomas Kragh on 01/01/2021

On 1 January 2021, Thomas Okke Frahm takes over the steering wheel from founding partner Jakob Ingemann.

With his many years’ executive experience from top tier companies, Thomas is an invaluable resource to IZARA’s customers. In particular his long-term focus on digitalization will come in handy when future-proofing their businesses.

Charlotte Bortolozzo is a Business Adviser, CIO-as-a-Service & Assoc. Partner at IZARA

Charlotte Bortolozzo joins IZARA as Assoc. Partner

Posted in News by Jakob Ingemann on 29/06/2020

With a degree in IT & Information in companies combined with 20+ years’ experience from business, IT and bridging the gap between the two, Charlotte joins our Experience-as-a-Service team this summer.

Here she will strengthen our Business Advisory and interim management such as CIO-as-a-Service offering.

IZARA reorganises and strengthens service offers

Posted in News by Carsten Kjelde on 01/05/2019

1,5 years after merging IZARA and former AXspecialists, the two companies decided to split up in April 2019. The IZARA that emerges after this is one with great learnings and an even more customer-focused offering.

Read our CEO’s statement and details about our services here.

On 10 June 2019 MCI turned the ERP Evergreen dream into reality

ERP Evergreen becomes reality for Maersk Container Industry

Posted in Stories by Jakob Ingemann on 12/06/2019

On Monday 10 June 2019 MCI went live on Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations (D365FO) v10. This comes almost two years after implementing test automation, one of the fundamentals of ERP Evergreen. For MCI it means this ERP implementation was their last and they are ready to harvest the long-term benefits of an always-updated business system.

Climate succeeeded in implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations in 25 days

Climate: Successful mitigation of the perfect storm – in 25 days

Posted in Stories by Thomas Kragh on 27/06/2018

Following a sudden company split-up, commercial refrigeration experts Climate started over as a “new” company, albeit with a large existing customer base and an organisation to run. This is the story about how we helped decide and implement the best-fit future-proof solution in 25 days – without disruptions to Climate’s exceptionally high heatwave-struck business.

Business advisory case: Helping Dynea get in shape for a future divestment through IT due diligence

Deciding on ERP implementation after a divestment decision saved Dynea 2m Euros in potential discounts

Posted in Stories by Carsten Kjelde on 26/09/2017

Preparing for a sale of the entire company while not knowing which facilities would be sold to whom, Dynea became aware that business system inefficiencies could result in large discounts, massive split-up costs and, in worst case, lack of attracted buyers.

You’ve got a business to run. An increasing organisation with big objectives. Your focus needs to be on your business and growth, without constraints. When you think about it, all you want from your IT is peace of mind. No more overspent IT projects and expensive disruptions. No more time wasted on growth-limiting solutions. No surprises. At IZARA we put your freedom first. Freedom from overspent IT projects and disruptions. Freedom through a long-term partnership focusing on reaching your objectives. Because as your IT advisor we give you the freedom to choose a future in which IT is a scalable helping hand, business enabler, predictable monthly budget post, and a mean to a business oriented, leaner and less complicated organisation. IZARA - Peace of mind, as a service.

Thomas Okke Frahm – Business Advisor | CEO & Managing Partner

CEO | Managing Partner

Thomas Okke Frahm – Business Advisor | CEO & Managing Partner

Carsten Kjelde is a Business Adviser, CIO-as-a-Service & Partner at IZARA

Carsten Kjelde – Business Advisor, CIO-as-a-Service & Partner

Business Advisor | CIO-as-a-Service | Partner

Carsten Kjelde – Business Advisor, CIO-as-a-Service & Partner

Thomas Kragh, Engagement Manager & Partner, IZARA

Thomas Kragh – Head of Customer Relations & Partner

Head of Customer Relations | Partner

Thomas Kragh – Head of Customer Relations & Partner

Charlotte Bortolozzo – Business Advisor, CIO-as-a-Service & Assoc. Partner

Business Advisor | CIO-as-a-service | Assoc. Partner

Charlotte Bortolozzo – Business Advisor, CIO-as-a-Service & Assoc. Partner

Mikael Dittmann is a Business Adviser, CFO-as-a-Service & Partner at IZARA

Mikael Dittmann – Business Advisor, CFO-as-a-Service & Assoc. Partner

Business Advisor | CFO-as-a-Service | Assoc. Partner

Mikael Dittmann – Business Advisor, CFO-as-a-Service & Assoc. Partner

Jörg Meyer is a Senior Business Consultant within manufacturing & logistics at IZARA

Jörg Meyer – Senior Business Consultant, Manufacturing & Logistics

Senior Business Consultant, Manufacturing & Logistics

Jörg Meyer – Senior Business Consultant, Manufacturing & Logistics

Camilla Tornø is a Senior Business Consultant and CFO-as-a-Service at IZARA

Camilla Tornø – Senior Business Consultant & CFO-as-a-Service

Senior Business Consultant | CFO-as-a-Service

Camilla Tornø – Senior Business Consultant & CFO-as-a-Service

Jakob Ingemann, CEO, Business adviser & Partner, IZARA

Jakob Ingemann – Founder, Chairman & Partner

CEO | Business Advisor | Partner

Jakob Ingemann – Founder, Chairman & Partner

Stories from our team

Changing the advisory industry from the inside and with decades of experience from both sides of the table – the story of IZARA’s Charlotte Bortolozzo

Posted in Employees by Thomas Kragh on 27/08/2020

“Customer-centricity and experience from both business and IT to be able to develop truly business-enabling solutions”.

With decades of CxO experience behind her, this is Charlotte’s view on turning expertise into customer value.

Mikael became a partner with IZARA – a natural step for an experienced CFO with high 2nd career aspirations

Posted in Employees by Thomas Kragh on 26/09/2018

After a long and successful career Mikael joined IZARA as an Assoc. Partner – with a desire to start his next career chapter.

This is the story of his path to IZARA and his thoughts about becoming a partner with us, expectations, and immediate plans.

Mads Svendsen, Senior business consultant, IZARA

Working at IZARA: Independence and trust

Posted in Employees by Thomas Kragh on 23/08/2018

When a friend recommended IZARA to Mads in 2016, it was the chance to learn from the best and a high degree of freedom that really caught his attention. Read Mads’ reflection on what a successful implementation means to him, international travels, and responsibility here.

Transparency and flexibility: Lars Heineke, MCI

Increased transparency and flexibility.

“Dynamics 365 has provided us with increased transparency and flexibility across our businesses, supporting data driven decision across the value chain. IZARA assisted us in analysing and mapping our IT-spend and confirmed that we probably did not spend too much in total, but that a big part of the spend was not really-value adding activities. After a thorough business objective and needs analysis by IZARA, Dynamics 365 in the cloud and surrounding services was shortlisted. During implementation IZARA took charge of project management as well as finance lead to ensure implementation of the agreed project objectives in all corners of the company. Post go-live IZARA is still dedicated to optimizing our implementation and usage, helping us setting the direction and ambition for the usage and integration of the business system as an evergreen solution so we hopefully never have to implement again...unless technology disrupts.”

– Lars Heineke, CFO, MCI Group

Quick and correct decisions.

"Jakob from IZARA is determined, open, honest, has a solution-oriented attitude and is trustworthy. His way of making demands of his own people and the way he motivates us is unique. With his capabilities to manage the project, we have reached the goals that have seemed almost impossible. Focus on due dates has been clear. It has been a pleasure and a very educational experience to work under his leadership. The ability to summarize key information and make quick but correct decisions has been an important capacity. Motivation and willingness to change, adaptation and to implement standardization has been a strong focus in our cooperation."

– Mariann Auglestad, Plant Chemist Dynea North, Lillestrøm, Production Track lead

Clarity and simplicity.

"Jakob from IZARA is a change and transformation agent. He is a disruptive force that will force you to rethink your current working practices. He will bring clarity and simplicity to the way you work and unshackle inefficiencies from your operations. Priceless learning experience gained from the transformation voyage."

– Jussi Raukavaara, Infrastructure Manager, Dynea Group

Our customer, Bjørn Rosbach, CIO Dynea Group

Makes things happen.

"Jacob from IZARA extracts information from people and processes and finds what is really relevant. He always seeks simple, good solutions and challenges routines and procedures to make sure we can implement them. In projects he is demanding, both for internal and external team, but he makes things happen."

– Bjørn Rosbach, CIO Dynea Group

Our customer, Jari Sihvonen, CFO Dynea Finland

Rewarding, but also challenging.

"Working with you was all the time rewarding but also challenging. Your approach is at the same time giving but also taking. Personally I appreciate straight forward approach, which is maybe the most visible thing when working with you. Basically at all the times everybody can trust that if you see something which is not going in the right direction, you say it out loud with no ill-will but just to get things done. I also appreciated your business process knowledge and that helped the implementation a lot."

– Jari Sihvonen, CFO Dynea Finland, Finance Track lead

Brutally honest and dead right.

"I have worked with Jakob from IZARA in various companies over the past 13 years. I have on several occasions tasked him with investigating complex business process/IT System issues and he has always been able to pinpoint the problems and provide simple and pragmatic solutions as well as drive change where change has been required. I would hire Jakob again anytime."

– Henrik Vildenfeldt, Senior VP CFO Dynea Group