Solution-focused companies have always fascinated Darryl Sackett, Chief Executive Officer of Codestone. Whether Microsoft or SoftwareOne, the latter of which he spent a decade before taking up the reins at Codestone, Sackett’s career trajectory has always led him towards the digital transformation space.
Sackett joined Codestone over a year ago as CEO, a firm known for being the number one ERP-led digital transformation consultancy in the UK and Northern Europe. His mission in the hot seat includes enhancing customer centricity, positioning the company as the transformation partner for businesses of all sizes – and ensuring Codestone remains at the forefront of digital advancement by fostering a culture of excellence, curiosity, and innovation.
Evolution of Codestone
It’s worth noting though that Codestone as a company began this journey long before Sackett joined. “Codestone is in Version 3.0 of its growth journey,” as the CEO tells ERP Today. In Version 1.0, the company was founder-led. “In this version, it was owner-operated and grew organically and successfully built on its SAP heritage,” the chief explains. “Version 2.0 began when the founders did their initial MBO and took capital backing, allowing them to accelerate the company’s growth.”
During that time, Codestone grew to a headcount of 300 through various acquisitions and could diversify its portfolio to make the company attractive to mid-market and enterprise customers.
Today, Version 3.0 of Codestone offers mission-critical ERP transformation with an offering including tangential analytics, AI, data strategies, security and productivity solutions. “So today, from a user perspective, we are stitching their core needs together with our end-to-end solutions,” Sackett says.
As the company expands its digital offerings, Codestone will utilize its diverse portfolio to ensure that its clients get the end-to-end digital transformation they need in this day and age. For this to happen, the CEO argues, customers must look past software solutions from a simple surface level and ensure they know how to turn various promises into measurable action.
“It’s great that there’s wonderful technology in the world,” says Sackett, pointing out that what customers want is to get constructive advice from Codestone on the best way to use today’s tech in their business context.
“I find that a lot of people are trying to customize systems too far or potentially even create something which is perhaps not best practice. From our perspective, we want to understand the customer to ensure that we can show them what best practice looks like and what it means for them in their relevant business context,” he notes.
Read more about Codestone’s end-to-end digital transformation approach and the role of data strategy and tangential analytics in the next part of our chat with Codestone CEO Darryl Sackett.
