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REALISING
OUR
AMBITIONS
2017 was a landmark year for 3 Step IT.
We celebrated our 20th anniversary. After 20
years of consistent growth we grew revenue and
gross margins by a further 14% and earnings by
20%, and achieved all this in tough market conditions.
The planning framework we have built helps
us to prioritise our investments in systems and
services, in partnerships and channels, and in
people and skills. But we will only achieve our
vision if all of the 3 Step IT team is involved. All
of our employees were invited to participate in
an ‘innovation race’. We received many innovation ideas, which a team of volunteers developed further in innovation workshops. Five
projects were selected for detailed evaluation
and two have been prioritised in our investment
plans. We intend to maintain this momentum to
ensure that we continue to take advantage of
everybody’s ideas.
However, I think our real achievement in
2017 was the steps that we took to prepare
3 Step IT for the future. The IT industry continues
to evolve, our customers have higher expectations, and technological advances enable us to
make our offerings increasingly relevant in this
changing environment.
We have a vision of how the company should
look in the year 2020, both from a financial perspective and how we will be working with our
customers. We have developed detailed plans
for the steps that we need to take to achieve
this vision, and in 2017 we delivered in line with
those plans.
None of the success we have enjoyed, nor the
transformation we are delivering, would be possible without the dedication of our team. Their
energy, passion and focus delivered exceptional
results in 2017 and give me every confidence that
in 2018 we will deliver another record breaking
performance, while positioning 3 Step IT as a
leading innovator in IT life cycle management.
3 Step IT is becoming a more forward-looking,
proactive organisation. We want to take advantage of the possibilities that technology provides
for us in order to both improve our customers’
competitiveness and play a leading role in the
development of the circular economy.
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