ODUM

Overview

ODUM.digital is a network of independent digital coaches and external CIOs working with Belgian organisations that have 25 to 500 staff members. It addresses growing SMEs, family businesses and non-profit organisations, and its services are digital roadmap, technology selection, CIO as a Service, public speaking and advisory board work. Olivier Mangelschots is listed as founder. Members of the network are self-employed as their main activity, work with several clients at the same time, and take assignments that typically run one to two years at two to ten days per month. The network states that it never implements IT solutions itself and accepts no commissions or lead fees from implementation parties. The CIO as a Service engagement is built for companies of 50 to 500 employees over 24 to 36 months, at six to thirty hours per week, pairing an external CIO with a supervisor who follows quality and joins kick-off and key decision meetings. Alongside client work, ODUM.digital publishes B2B software market studies covering categories such as ERP, WMS, TMS, CRM, CPQ, iPaaS and low-code, each described as 10 to 20 working days of research and more than 100 touch points, plus ecosystem overviews per sector, department and tool category. Published customer cases include Holmy, Bomedys, TLV and IBR.

Stated facts & numbers

• Founded: 2015 (start date of the legal entity Coherence)
• Headquarters: Ghent (Mariakerke)
• Founder: Olivier Mangelschots
• Legal entity: Coherence BV, enterprise number 0598.749.821
• Network size: 29 people listed on the team page
• Services: Digital roadmap, technology selection, CIO as a Service, public speaker, advisory board
• Target customers: Belgian organisations with 25-500 staff: growing SMEs, family businesses, non-profits
• Named customers: Holmy, Bomedys, TLV, IBR
• Cities: Antwerp, Bruges, Brussels, Ghent, Hasselt, Kortrijk, Leuven, Sint-Niklaas
• Subsidy schemes: KMO-portefeuille service provider, Chèques Entreprises maturité numérique
• Publications: B2B software market studies and sector, department and tool ecosystem overviews