TietoEVRY Is Creating the Digital Future for Business and Society

STYL TietoEVRY Is Creating the Digital Future for Business and Society TietoEVRY, The IT company from Ostrava, manages and develops key systems for Scandinavia. Finnish company culture has proved successful, says Petr Lukasík, the managing director of TietoEVRY Czech and also Finnish honorary consul. Why did the TietoEVRY management decide to build one of its branches in Ostrava? Have you implemented some Finnish procedures or strategies in this branch? We have been in Ostrava since 2004. The decision to build the Czech branch was made on the basis of analysis, prepared by the Finnish management. employees. Over seventeen years, we have managed to create a stable and prosperous base. Today, we have approximately 2,600 employees, 200 of them in Brno. We continually implement Nordic work culture, which is a bit different from the Czech style, in the company. But all of our employees have adapted to it well. Thanks to 24,000 experts in dozens of both European and non-European countries, the company provides services with local reach and global capabilities. Their expertise in the field of software and services management combines with an emphasis on Nordic values and sustainability. The company’s main headquarters are in Finland. Their turnover is approximately three billion euros and their shares are quoted at NASDAQ stock exchanges in Helsinki and Stockholm. They focused on the local market aspects, culture, demographic and technological procedures. Ostrava won as a place that has the potential of extraordinarily educated, qualified and innovative people. Our company started with twenty 46 ǀ POSITIV 1/2021 Are you planning any expansion of your investments in the Moravian-Silesian region in the near future? What are your plans for the future? Luckily, we are one of the companies that were only slightly affected by the current pandemic, therefore, we expect the company to continue to grow in the future. We are planning to invest in new technologies, services and mainly competence development in the fields of data science, artificial intelligence, data engineering, software development and cloud solutions. It is known that you collaborate with universities, high schools and even primary schools. Are these collaborations still active? Are you, for example, investing in classroom equipment for some schools? TietoEVRY permanently, actively engages in education, mostly in collaboration with universities and high schools. We are trying to bring elements inspired by the Finnish educational system, which is one of the best in the world, to the Czech environment. We are helping develop