HQ-consult BV was founded in 2002 by Arjan de Kok. He has over 20 years experience in business consultancy, project management and interim management and the implementation of information systems in industrial and facility management organizations.
The areas in which he works include analysis and re-engineering of business processes, improvement of working methods, introduction of the New Way of Working, setting up efficient technical document management and the implementation of information technology. This includes setting up information management systems; Document and Product Data Management systems (DMS / PDM / PLM), the design of Graphic Information systems (GIS / BIM) and the exchange of product information.
Arjan de Kok graduated from the Applied University of Utrecht in the Mechanical Engineering, specialization Design Engineering. He then completed a Business Administration study at the Applied University Amsterdam and obtained his Master of Business Administration (MBA) at the University of Liverpool. Beginning of 2018 he obtained his doctorate at Utrecht University, Informatics department, on the subject of The New Way of Working, knowledge sharing in organizations and the impact of ICT and information security on employees and organizations. See here his blog about The New Way of Working. He has worked in various management positions, advisory and project management positions at industrial and facility organizations.
Arjan de Kok has carried out assignments for ABB Lummus Global, Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, ASML, AVEBE, Baan, Ballast Nedam, Gemeentewerken Rotterdam, Hoekloos, Dutch signal devices / Thales, Lelystad Airport, NAM, Nefit Fasto, Océ, Philips Medical Systems, Rijkswaterstaat and Stork Aerospace.
He has spoken at several conferences, given training courses and courses and published articles. He is co-author of the book Product Data Management and the book PDM Selection Guide, and the final editor of the course Product Lifecycle Management of the IMF.
Arjan de Kok is a guest lecturer at Utrecht University for the modules ‘Organizations and ICT’ and ‘ICT Advisory’. In addition, as guest lecturer in Business Administration / Business Economics at Windesheim University of Applied Sciences, he provided the Management Accounting and Investment and Project Analysis modules.
From 1999 till 2004 he has been involved as trainer in the course “Maintenance management” of the IPOM / NVDO (Dutch association for effective maintenance) in collaboration with. Here he provided the modules “Maintenance information systems: application of ICT and maintenance control systems in maintenance” and “Design and management, maintenance-conscious design”.
His knowledge areas include:
– Analysis and improvement of business processes; optimization of processes in engineering design processes, project transfer and maintenance management.
– Develop improvement plans (master plan, policy plan) and organizational development; work methods, procedures and tasks and responsibilities
– Assessment of Engineering Management and working method and application of information technology.
– Requirement determination, definition, selection and implementation of information systems for Document & Workflow Management, Product Data / Lifecycle Management and (geo) graphic information management.
– Setting up functional management of information systems from the user organization, including the application of the BiSL Framework.