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Where we are going
6YS will become the most innovative provider of Software As A Service (SAAS) to SME customers based in Australia, specialising in vertical markets and franchise operations.
Values
Our culture is a strategic initiative
- We ask the hard questions and act for our clients
- We take personal responsibility
- We aim high and are focused in our efforts to achieve our aims
- We research before we advise
- We are a meritocracy, if you want to be a STAR, be a STAR
- We believe in teamwork, hard work and fun
- We treat out clients needs as our own
- We are prepared to take calculated risks
- We have the courage of our convictions
Principles
- Professional like IBM mixed with service and attitude like Virgin
- Smart, professional, straight talking dependable
- Fun, challenging, open, ideas
- Aligned employees’ and business interests
- Value employees for what they contribute and share
- Helping all to do what they want to do
Policies
- Simplicity, allowing our employees to take responsibility
- Standard communications and materials, professional but fun
- Low on bureaucracy our documents must be living and for every day use
Direction
- The team understands that people follow the direction stated and as such the senior people hold the mantle to describe the path of the businesses with clarity.
- We all play a part in the company directions
Internal Operations
"We drink from the same tap" what we supply or advise to others we utilise ourselves, creating a credibility in ourselves and our products
6YS History and Values
How the company was named and what it stands for
In 2002, 6 experienced business and IT professionals sat around a table and started to ask some hard questions about the IT business. It went something like this
| IT Projects |
Why is it so hard to complete IT projects?
Why do they always cost more then expected?
Why are they always late? |
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| IT Platforms |
Why are all companies building the same platforms and all having the same project and system integration costs?
Why do SMEs have inferior back up/restore software and infrastructure?
Why are SMEs either skimping on Disaster Recovery or have the costs of wasted IT DR kit?
Why don’t SMEs replicate their production data and restore files on demand using SAN technology? |
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| IT Resources |
Why are all SME companies struggling with the risk of a single IT resource when they actually need a team of specialists for
- Network and security
- Systems and platform
- Storage and backup
Why do SMEs risk losing the key resource who knows their IT systems? |
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| IT Support |
Why are SME companies struggling with IT support?
Why are companies settling for non-standard and undocumented implementations? |
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| IT Costs |
Why are IT costs so variable and jump as the business grows? No sooner is the project bill paid; another bill appears for an upgrade!
Why is it so hard and costly to deal with the large multinationals?
Why do IT companies make it so hard to understand with all the jargon?
Why do SMEs want to own their IT when they don’t own power stations or telecommunications companies? |
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| IT solution |
Why not do something different to assist the SME?
Why not supply software as a service in a central location with DR?
Why not supply all the IT specialists and all the support processes?
Why not make IT costs consistent?
Why not create a straight talking and dealing culture?
Why not create a company to do all this? 6YS |
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This is known as the “6 levels of questioning” that really gets to the answers that solve problems. This questioning gave the team the business direction to provide "Software As A Service" to the SME market.
They decided on a name depicting the 6 Whys of question and the 6 people that started the company.6 Whys got shortened to 6YS as the shape of the “Y” represented the 3 pillars of focus for the company Customers, Partners and Staff.
The name 6YS is a continual reminder to ask the hard questions to get to the best solution and support for our clients through our partners and staff.
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