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Make IT So
Make IT So · ABOUT US

Make IT So is Jan and Walter and their team, who orchestrate complex projects.

We're not a fifty-person agency, nor a one-man band. We're two partners with a growing team that joins in when a project calls for it. Small enough to stay personal, experienced enough to run big programmes.

Founded
2018
Scale
2 partners + a growing team
Home base
Mechelen · Belgium

Why we started Make IT So.

Every company runs into digital challenges sooner or later: software that no longer grows with you, projects that drag on, suppliers who each speak a different language. Large companies solve this with in-house programme managers. For an SME that's unaffordable. Make IT So grew out of the conviction that an SME deserves access to that same leadership, without having to employ a full-time programme manager.

Today we work with two partners and a growing team we've worked with for years, not anonymous LinkedIn profiles. For each project we look at what's needed and scale accordingly. For the client that means one point of contact, one team that carries the name, and the certainty that whoever works on your project really knows your project. Behind that sits the model that makes Make IT So unique: every point of contact draws on the knowledge and experience of the other people at Make IT So.

01 · The two partners

Jan and Walter complement each other.

A small agency with two faces. Click through for each partner's full story.

Jan Festjens, partner at Make IT So

Jan Festjens

Programme manager · Partner

15+ years of programme management at Beeple, Cloudalize, Bebat and SPG Dry Cooling. Analytical and calm: he first gets sharp on what's really being asked, then guards the scope when everyone starts pulling at it.

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Walter Swaenepoel, partner at Make IT So

Walter Swaenepoel

Programme manager · Partner

20+ years in Business & IT management, with teams of up to 85 people. He has led complex transformations where both the organisation and the technology evolve, and knows the politics that come with it.

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What we don't do.

We work with the suppliers you choose: we steer them and guard the whole, but we don't build software ourselves, don't host and don't implement ERPEén systeem dat je kernprocessen zoals voorraad, boekhouding en orders samenbrengt.. That's deliberate: an orchestrator that delivers itself loses its independence. Our only brief is your interest as the client, not a software vendor's.

02 · Read on

Three ways on from here.

Depending on what you're interested in.

How we work

Our approach

Four steps in one project, four roles we can fill, and the philosophy behind them. It's the method layer every collaboration starts with.

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What we've done

Cases

Concrete projects with figures and client quotes, from an industrial designer to a retailer to multi-partner programmes. Evidence instead of promises.

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First step

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We talk for half an hour. You tell us where it pinches, and we tell you honestly whether we're the right fit and what we think the next step is.

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Call us for half an hour. You tell us where it pinches, and we tell you honestly whether we're the right fit.