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Development of young talented managers
Steria Group - Leadership in Motion

IT facing millennium challenges
IT service providers in Europe are facing a series of strategic challenges in an increasingly tight and competitive market

More than ever, today’s customers demand seamless end-to-end solutions, accessability, compatibility and speed. IT costs are challenged, and the bar is being raised constantly. Vendors have to create synergies across borders and functions in order to secure customer satisfaction and customer retention, and grow business profitably in a competitive climate.

Moving ahead in the race for European leadership
Steria, being one of the top ten IT services companies in Europe, is committed to being ahead in the race for European leadership in IT services.

Steria’s three core businesses - consulting, systems integration and managed services - make it an end-to-end IT services partner. From IT infrastructures to applications, Steria responds to all its customers’ needs by designing, developing and operating information systems. Steria is present in 12 countries in Europe.

Excellence in technology – excellence in leadership
To move ahead in the race for European leadership in IT services, it is particularly important to further grow technical expertise and leadership capabilities solidly based on Steria’s five core values:

  • Simplicity - Steria’s ambition is to be a source of progress and success for its customers, by proposing simple solutions to the challenges they face.
  • Creativity - Steria’s innovative solutions stem from the entrepreneurial spirit the Group encourages and the IT expertise for which it is recognised.
  • Independence - Steria is an independent company with the freedom to make strategic decisions in the best interests of employees, customers and shareholders.
  • Respect - providing fulfilling opportunities for Steria employees and encouraging personal development, cooperation and the exchange of ideas.
  • Openness - Steria’s dialogue with employees and customers makes it a unique and acknowledged European IT services leader. Steria is a company open to the world, welcoming new talents and ideas from within and outside the company.

Human resources at the heart of the company’s growth
Steria’s development agenda focuses on rapid development of individual and team capabilities, building upon and further developing:

  • excellent consulting and engineering skills
  • excellent people managers/leaders capabilities

In 2003 Steria launched ’Leadership in Motion’, a leadership development programme targeted for young managers across the Steria Group.

Tim Simson, Head of Training and Development, Steria Group, explains:
“Steria has always been a company that looks to develop its best young managers. In early 2002, following a large acquisition, we wanted to build a more structured programme that would bring together our highest potential staff from across the Steria Group.

The development of our most talented young managers is essential both in ensuring that Steria achieves its ambition of being a leader in the European IT Services industry and in increasing the Group leadership and management capability.”

Partnering with Mannaz
“Following extensive research on different solutions for this programme, we decided on Mannaz as our partner in building and running ‘Leadership in Motion’.

They impressed us with their flexibility and innovation. Like many companies, we were looking for a solution that took the best business school approaches to management development as well as maintaining focus on our business and market. The willingness to take time to find the best solution and their ability to respond quickly and positively to our needs reassures me that we made the right choice in choosing Mannaz, to manage our high potential programme. The extremely positive feedback from the participants reinforces this view, and we are proud to launch “Leadership in Motion” again in 2006”.


Contact Mannaz
Please contact us if you have any questions concerning this or other related areas:

Director Inger Buus
Tel. +44 (0) 2070 318254

Senior Coach, Programme Director Bente Thomassen
Tel. +45 4517 6159