We’ve been running lots of interviews as part of our recruitment process here at DVS, and one of the most interesting questions I have been asked is about the culture and values we stand for. I felt this was a superb candidate question to get under the skin of the company they are considering joining – and a prompt to us to set out what we stand for. After some late night soul-searching (and a great collaborative discussion with the candidate), we set out three key DVS values:
- We’re answer focused
- We’re flexible, for our clients and our team
- We’re collaborative
We’re answer focused
In all of our projects, we worry about what the answer is and not how we got there. We are deductive in our communications, leading with the ‘so what’. Sometimes this answer comes from a detailed model, but often it’s a simple set of cross-cuts or some whiteboard time. We’re always passionate about method and happy to talk through that too, but it’s not how we bring our core value.
We’re flexible: for our clients
Our people flex around the needs of your business. We can support with short exploration phases, build out a proof of value with your business, as well as supporting the to implementation of a proof of concept. These different project phases need different skillsets and team sizes, and we will never push you to a team or project structure that doesn’t suit your needs We recognise that this is a key USP of Data Vision Services vs bigger consulting houses, and will endeavour to stick to this approach as we grow.
We’re flexible: for our team
We give back as we take with our team. It’s professional services, and so sometimes there are some longer hours – but we look to give back too. Some of these perks include: extra holiday allowance to use when you’re working on business development; time off for volunteering; option to work abroad for up to four weeks a year; and a flexible office space subscription you can use whenever you want.
We’re collaborative
We know that more diverse brains focused on a problem leads to a higher quality answer. So, we use that office space subscription. Working from home is a fantastic asset, but there are some problems you just need to write out on a whiteboard. We work closely with our clients and look to get together for at least fortnightly workshops. We work closely together as DVS, sharing ideas across our projects whenever we can. So when you have one person from the team on your project, you really get access to the whole team’s brainpower. It’s boring when we work alone!
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