In Argentina it is traditional to speak of the quality of our scientists, professionals, artists and technicians. The media reflects on a daily basis on the accomplishments of Argentines in the world, the 3 Nobel prizes for science, the fame of our universities and the success of Tango.

However, all this talent up to now has not been able to overcome the barrier of individual success and has not created a competitive advantage for the country nor a sustained benefit for the community.

Those of us who created Idea Factory believe that conditions are perfect for this to change.

We think that if you consider the natural talent of the Argentines and their high levels of qualification and add to this the vision and the appropriate strategies this natural advantage can be best capitalised. And in order to take advantage of this we created Idea Factory.

With this vision, it becomes necessary to build a strategy and conditions to compete. This strategy is simple to enunciate: global markets, high quality and rigorous methodology. Around this strategy we have been building Idea Factory Software since the moment of its inception.

Big companies are not born on the basis of a great idea or an innovative product. Nor do they originate from a charismatic or visionary leader. They arise imbued in a strong sense of how they want to see themselves not just in a quarter, or a year or even a decade, but rather in various generations after the founders. In the good times, and even more so in the bad times, they develop, sustaining a set of values that they are not willing to compromise.

For this reason, Idea Factory was created based on the conviction that Argentina can provide the world with deliverables of the highest quality. Having already taken our first steps, we have defined that we will be a global business and that quality will be one of our distinguishing characteristics.

This is how we came about, how we began to operate and how we hope to grow.

Idea Factory was created as a software company but not as a "software factoryr". We arrived at this definition through time together with the new founders, who constituted the initial team and who contributed their vision and their experience. As such we went from the idea of "doing things well" to the formalization of the process of CMM certification and, from there to define our goals, progressively more ambitious, until arriving at our present goal of reaching level 3 this year, and level 5 before the end of 2005.

In the same way, new team members have brought new ideas that continue to shape the company: its methodology, its organization, its positioning.

Idea Factory has its vitality assured by the continual introduction of new "founders". It is too early to speak of our history, but we are sure that these first steps will be the start of a great history.


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