A Small Enterprise Resource Planning Vendor: The Vision and the Challenges
P.J. Jakovljevic - April 20, 2006

Taking the Long-term View

Simply put, the company's long-term objective is to establish enough power to create and control its own future. To that end, Jeeves collaborates very closely with experienced and skilled partners, and it is important that partners and customers perceive Jeeves as their top choice amongst a plethora of available business systems. The company has achieved this status in Sweden, and sees the possibility of further cementing its position in Europe, apparently not at the expense of its earnings. Jeeves recently declared its ambition to become one of Europe's leading business systems providers, in maintaining a minimum annual growth of 25 percent, with a minimum operating margin of 10 percent. Growth is a vital sign of success in this sector, which as a whole is stagnating; demonstrating a combination of growth and profitability for over a dozen quarters makes Jeeves stand out from the crowd...