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Tacton Systems at the event SolidWorks World.
port Company of the Year Award 2014, appointed by the Swedish Trade & Investment Council. Walberg assigns the success to the fact that the company solves problems of great value. He also believes that good customer references are vital, but there is a lot of hard work leading up to that achievement. “We must create credibility to make customers want to invest. There are no shortcuts; we have worked systematically during a ten-year period to create strong customer references from major clients,” he says. Swedish innovation and room to thrive Sweden has placed itself on the map as an innovative and creative country, and Wallberg believes it has to do the non-
Tacton Systems has 135 employees representing 15 nationalities.
hierarchical work structure. “Many young talents dare to try and they are not pushed back into a hierarchical structure. We are creative and innovative. It is in our culture. We see possibilities and bring out solutions,” he says. The CEO emphasises that young talents are not afraid to try new things and that it is all about giving them space to thrive. “They are not sitting around waiting for someone to tell them what to do,” he says and adds that the junior engineers and computer scientists at Tacton Systems are really good at stepping up and managing situations, even when meeting with clients twice their age. This mind-set applies to the whole of society and is strongly linked to the current entrepreneurial trend. “If you look back 30 years, being an entrepreneur was something ugly, but that has changed completely. Today, an entrepreneur is really sought-after. And that means people choose to go that way, which is very positive,” Wallberg says.
Multicultural headquarters Tacton Systems is headquartered in Stockholm. The company operates with the whole world as its working-field and the 135 employees represent more than 15 nationalities. Wallberg insists that the organisation simply picks the best talents, in Sweden and beyond, stressing the importance of creating a company where young talents want to work – and stay for a long time. Many of the current employees have been in the company since 2000. Bright future ahead The CEO feels positively about the future and says that their field, Configure Price Quote (CPQ), is one of the hottest in industrial software today and has gained both attention and investors lately. “Our vision is to grow faster than the industry. During the next six months we will be getting many new large clients that can really change the map for us. Our ambition is to become a really, really good export company,” he says.
For more information please visit: www.tacton.com
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