I have been playing with the idea of founding my own company for years. Then it was somehow always postponed either because I worked long hours or because my job required me to travel extensively so in other words there was always some barrier popping up.
In March I firmed up my decision that I would establish an Ltd. I also decided that this company will only take on work that we excel and love. This principle is also reflected in the selection of the name of the company because if I have to pick a single area I am an expert in than it would be the organisation. During my career I have built up the Hungarian organisation for three global companies, but I also transformed and outsourced organisations of global companies.
Out of the three companies I built the first one started with merging the organisation of two existing activities and growing it over the years to 400 people from the original 30. The second company was a green field investment where I had to get to a 300 person operation practically from a business start up while implementing the processes and policies used by most of the global companies. And my last seven years was busy with how to grow a multi-location organsiation from 1200 to 4400 while improving the efficiency of the operation.
Of course these activties can be broken down into smaller objectives like how to organise and make measurable various processes, how to develop resourcing strategies, how to optimise the structure of the organisation in order to be efficient yet motivating for the employees or how to establish the HR data analytics function, how to structure the reporting and I can continue the list for long … but at the end these are all organisation and leadership related topics.
As my activity has always been international I thought that my future company should also remain an international player not being limited by the borders of countries. During the creation process I asked for the opinion of a group of my friends and some of them helped me a lot beyond that too.
This is how fOrgXpert International Kft. was established. Now that the creation phase is over the real work can start. I am looking forward to this period with excitment and curiosity, it is a little bit like a toddler learning to walk. After a few steps there is a halt then they push into it again and march forward while leaving a footprint in the sand showing the direction of progress.
Hope there will be many joining me on that journey too.